San Marino

EuropeCapital city: San MarinoCapital metro: San MarinoSecretary of State: Maria Luisa Berti
2026 population
34K
Rank #229 globally
Area
61 km² (24 sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
99% of population in metros
Composite score
4.0
Rank #144 globally

population: Monthly national estimate (30 Apr 2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

San Marino metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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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
#574San Marino★ Capital▲ Largest
4.0
🗂️ Municipalities

9 entries listed under San Marino. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

9 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Italian
Currency
Euro (€)
Government
Diarchy
Legislature
Grand and General Council
Demonym
Sammarinese
Time zone
Central European Time
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+378
Internet TLD
.sm
ISO 3166
SM
Established
301
Highest point
Monte Titano (756 m (2,480 ft))

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#30 / 191
0.915
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#177 / 193
$2.0B
World Bank · 2023
GDP per capita
#19 / 193
$59.9k
World Bank · 2023
GDP/capita (PPP)
#15 / 190
$78.8k
World Bank · 2023
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#21 / 192
$53.9k
World Bank · 2023
Life expectancy
#2 / 194
85.8 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
47.4 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#6 / 194
97%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.4%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#12 / 193
564/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#32 / 193
17.4%
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#14 / 193
97%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#67 / 185
2.3%
World Bank · 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

Political & Economic

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History9 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.

Maria Luisa Berti✦ Current

2024Present

Secretary of State

Tenure: in office

Luca Beccari

20202024

Secretary of State

Tenure: 4y 8m 28dPDCS

Nicola Renzi

20162020

Secretary of State

Tenure: 3y 12dRETE/Adesso.sm

Pasquale Valentini

20122016

Secretary of State

Tenure: 4y 26dPDCS

Antonella Mularoni

20082012

Secretary of State

Tenure: 4y 0dPSD/AP

Fiorenzo Stolfi

20062008

Secretary of State

Tenure: 2y 6m 0dPSD

Fabio Berardi

20032006

Secretary of State

Tenure: 2y 6m 0dPSD

Fiorenzo Stolfi

20022003

Secretary of State

Tenure: 1y 0dPSD

Gabriele Gatti

19862002

Secretary of State

Tenure: 16y 5m 0dPDCS
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#138 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
San Marino · share of world power, 1991–2026

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.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
34k
#221 in the world
Since 1800
6.15×
from 5k
Past its peak
−3.0%
peaked at 35k in 2020
Share of world
0.00%
0.00% in 1800
9k17k26k35k18001850190019502000
San Marino · 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. San Marino is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for San Marino: 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
2020
35k; already passed
2050
34k
95% band 25k to 44k
2100
31k
95% band 11k to 67k
2100 against 2025
0.93×
median falling from 2097
Deaths outnumber births
since 2015
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
18k35k53k70k1950197520002025205020752100

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
255 born · 127 died · +44 net migration
TFR 2.82 · life expectancy 71.6 · median age 30.4
1960
270 born · 132 died · +229 net migration
TFR 2.43 · life expectancy 73.2 · median age 30.0
1970
308 born · 135 died · -39 net migration
TFR 2.32 · life expectancy 74.3 · median age 29.9
1980
249 born · 159 died · +169 net migration
TFR 1.52 · life expectancy 76.4 · median age 31.8
1990
238 born · 196 died · +289 net migration
TFR 1.16 · life expectancy 77.8 · median age 34.8
2000
322 born · 214 died · +233 net migration
TFR 1.40 · life expectancy 80.5 · median age 37.6
2010
316 born · 224 died · +592 net migration
TFR 1.46 · life expectancy 83.5 · median age 41.4
2020
212 born · 361 died · +247 net migration
TFR 1.11 · life expectancy 82.7 · median age 45.8
Show all 16 decades
2030
204 born · 315 died · +130 net migration
TFR 1.20 · life expectancy 86.5 · median age 50.7
2040
247 born · 375 died · +124 net migration
TFR 1.25 · life expectancy 87.6 · median age 52.3
2050
235 born · 449 died · +179 net migration
TFR 1.29 · life expectancy 88.7 · median age 50.8
2060
215 born · 498 died · +168 net migration
TFR 1.33 · life expectancy 89.8 · median age 50.6
2070
236 born · 446 died · +139 net migration
TFR 1.37 · life expectancy 90.9 · median age 50.7
2080
242 born · 359 died · +104 net migration
TFR 1.39 · life expectancy 91.9 · median age 49.5
2090
231 born · 337 died · +107 net migration
TFR 1.42 · life expectancy 92.9 · median age 49.8
2100
235 born · 362 died · +117 net migration
TFR 1.43 · life expectancy 94.0 · median age 50.7

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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

San Marino on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.