Mongolia

AsiaCapital city: UlaanbaatarCapital metro: Ulan BatorPresident: Ukhnaagiin KhürelsükhPrime Minister: Nyam-Osoryn Uchral
2026 population
3.6M
Rank #135 globally
Area
1.6M km² (604k sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
43% of population in metros
Composite score
1.9
Rank #176 globally

population: National annual projection (31 Dec 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

Mongolia metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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1 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 1 tracked metro
1 metros
#923Ulan Bator★ Capital▲ Largest
1.9
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions

22 entries listed under Mongolia across 2 types. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

22 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Mongolian
Government
Parliamentary system
Legislature
State Great Khural
Demonym
Mongol
Time zone
UTC+08:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+976
Internet TLD
.mn
ISO 3166
MN
Established
1992
Highest point
Hüiten Peak (4,374 m (14,350 ft))
National anthem
National anthem of Mongolia

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#103 / 191
0.747
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#121 / 193
$25.4B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#99 / 193
$7.1k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#91 / 190
$20.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#106 / 192
$6.2k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#113 / 194
72.4 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
26.8 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#69 / 194
71%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#193 / 193
2/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#169 / 193
0.6%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#97 / 175
0.48
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#44 / 166
31.4
World Bank · 2022
Internet users
#81 / 193
85%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#156 / 185
8.6%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#180 / 192
12.9 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#153 / 186
8%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations1 full membership

Security

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History39 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Nyam-Osoryn Uchral✦ Current

2026Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 3m

Gombojavyn Zandanshatar

20252026

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 9m

Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh✦ Current

2021Present

President

Tenure: 5y 0m

Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene

20212025

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4y 4m

Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh

20172021

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3y 3m

Khaltmaagiin Battulga

20172021

President

Tenure: 3y 11m

Jargaltulgyn Erdenebat

20162017

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 2m

Chimediin Saikhanbileg

20142016

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 7m

Norovyn Altankhuyag

20122014

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 2m

Sükhbaataryn Batbold

20092012

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 9m

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

20092017

President

Tenure: 8y 0m

Sanjiin Bayar

20072009

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 11m
Show all 39 leaders

Miyeegombyn Enkhbold

20062007

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 9m

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

20052009

President

Tenure: 3y 11m

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

20042006

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 4m

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

20002004

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4y 0m

Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal

19992000

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 11m

Janlavyn Narantsatsralt

19981999

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 7m

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

19981998

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 7m

Natsagiin Bagabandi

19972005

President

Tenure: 8y 0m

Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan

19961998

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 9m

Puntsagiin Jasrai

19921996

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3y 11m

Dashiin Byambasüren

19901992

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 10m

Sharavyn Gungaadorj

19901990

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 5m

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

19901997

President

Tenure: 7y 2m

Dumaagiin Sodnom

19841990

Prime Minister

Tenure: 5y 3m

Jambyn Batmönkh

19741984

Prime Minister

Tenure: 10y 6m

Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal

19521974

Prime Minister

Tenure: 22y 4m

Khorloogiin Choibalsan

19391952

Prime Minister

Tenure: 12y 10m

Anandyn Amar

19361939

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 11m

Peljidiin Genden

19321936

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3y 8m

Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav

19301932

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 2m

Anandyn Amar

19281930

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 2m

Balingiin Tserendorj

19231928

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4y 7m

Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar

19221923

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 3m

Dogsomyn Bodoo

19211922

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 8m

Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar

19211921

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 2m

Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj

19191920

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0y 8m

Tögs-Ochiryn Namnansüren

19121919

Prime Minister

Tenure: 6y 5m
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#170 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%19502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Mongolia · share of world power, 1921–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19452 interstate wars · click to expand
Japan,Manchukuo,Japanese Korea
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
3.4m
#133 in the world
Since 1800
5.72×
from 600k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.04%
0.06% in 1800
889k1.8m2.7m3.6m18001850190019502000
Mongolia · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Mongolia: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
after 2100
still growing at 2100
2050
4.5m
95% band 3.7m to 5.5m
2100
5.5m
95% band 2.9m to 10.3m
2100 against 2025
1.57×
median still rising in 2100
2.7m5.4m8.1m10.8m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
32k born · 19k died · 0 net migration
TFR 5.50 · life expectancy 38.6 · median age 23.9
1960
43k born · 22k died · +10k net migration
TFR 6.82 · life expectancy 44.5 · median age 21.7
1970
52k born · 22k died · +3k net migration
TFR 7.31 · life expectancy 52.0 · median age 16.4
1980
65k born · 23k died · -1k net migration
TFR 6.21 · life expectancy 55.2 · median age 16.6
1990
74k born · 23k died · -12k net migration
TFR 4.21 · life expectancy 58.8 · median age 17.9
2000
51k born · 17k died · -11k net migration
TFR 2.25 · life expectancy 63.5 · median age 20.7
2010
64k born · 18k died · -6k net migration
TFR 2.52 · life expectancy 67.1 · median age 24.4
2020
74k born · 21k died · 0 net migration
TFR 2.95 · life expectancy 70.0 · median age 26.4
Show all 16 decades
2030
59k born · 23k died · +35 net migration
TFR 2.39 · life expectancy 73.4 · median age 27.0
2040
71k born · 28k died · -181 net migration
TFR 2.14 · life expectancy 75.6 · median age 28.5
2050
69k born · 34k died · -253 net migration
TFR 1.99 · life expectancy 77.7 · median age 32.0
2060
62k born · 38k died · +1k net migration
TFR 1.92 · life expectancy 79.5 · median age 34.7
2070
65k born · 42k died · +740 net migration
TFR 1.87 · life expectancy 81.3 · median age 35.8
2080
63k born · 44k died · +302 net migration
TFR 1.83 · life expectancy 82.8 · median age 37.7
2090
60k born · 46k died · +157 net migration
TFR 1.81 · life expectancy 84.3 · median age 40.2
2100
60k born · 54k died · -172 net migration
TFR 1.79 · life expectancy 85.7 · median age 41.9

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Mongolia on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.