| Demographics of Laos | |
|---|---|
 Population pyramid of Laos in 2020 | |
| Population | 7,443,000 (2022 est.) |
| Growth rate | 1.41% (2022 est.) |
| Birth rate | 20.9 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) |
| Death rate | 6.8 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) |
| Life expectancy | 67 years (2022 est.) |
| • male | 66 years (2022 est.) |
| • female | 69 years (2022 est.) |
| Fertility rate | 2.48 children born/woman (2022 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | 36.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2022 est.) |
| Age structure | |
| 0–14 years | 30.80% (2022 est.) |
| 15–64 years | 64.56% (2022 est.) |
| 65 and over | 4.68% (2022 est.) |
| Sex ratio | |
| Total | 1.00 male(s)/female (2022 est.) |
| At birth | 1.04 male(s)/female (2022 est.) |
| Nationality | |
| Nationality | Laotian |
| Major ethnic | Lao (53.2%) |
| Source: LAOSIS[1] | |
Laos is a country in Southeast Asia. The country's population was estimated at 7.43 million in 2021, dispersed unevenly across the country. Most people live in valleys of the Mekong River and its tributaries. Vientiane Prefecture, which includes Vientiane, the capital and largest city of the country, had 820,924 residents as of the 2015 census. The country's population density is 26.7/km2.
As per the 2015 census, the total population was 6.49 million (3.24 million females, 3.25 million males), an increase of 870 thousand since the previous 2005 census.