According to B.Batmunkh, Chairman of the National Statistics Office, Mongolia’s population growth has been slowing down since 2020.

The population of the country had grown by an average annual rate of 2.2 percent from 2010 to 2020. However, the average annual growth rate has decreased to 1.5 percent since 2020, due to the slowdown is mainly related to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic difficulties.

On average, 200 to 240 children are born each day, while over 40 people die.

Mongolia’s population stood at 3.45 million at the end of 2022. Back in January 2015, Mongolia’s population hit 3 million.

Mongolia, with a land area of 1,564,116 square km, is the most sparsely populated country in the world.