The demographic characteristics of the population of The Gambia are known through national censuses, conducted in ten-year intervals and analyzed by The Gambian Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) since 1963.

The population density is 176.1 per square kilometer, and the overall life expectancy in The Gambia is 64.1 years.

Since the first census of 1963, the population of The Gambia has increased every ten years by an average of 43.2 percent.

[1] The population of The Gambia has increased each census, starting with 315 thousand in 1963 to 1.8 million in 2013.

[1] The GBOS predicted the reason for the increase from 2003 to 2013 was more coverage in the latter census compared to the former's.