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Mississippi population 2026
Mississippi has 2,954,160 people on the latest official figure, for 1 July 2025, 3,988 more than a year earlier (+0.14%). It is 35th of the US’s 50 states and DC by population, home to 0.9% of the US’s people.
If last year’s change continues: about 3 million by 1 July 2026. That is our arithmetic, not an official figure.
Mississippi in numbers
- Population
- 3 million 1 July 2025
- Change in a year
- +0.14% +3,988 people
- Change since 2020
- −0.14% from 3 million
- Share of the US
- 0.9% 35th of 50 states and DC
- Population density
- 24per km² 121,534 km²
- Births in the year
- 33 thousand deaths: 36 thousand
- International migration
- +7 thousand net arrivals from abroad
- Moves within the US
- −917 more people left than moved in
In the latest year deaths outnumbered births by 2,607, 7,451 more people arrived from abroad than left, and 917 more people moved to the rest of the US than moved in.
That is about as many people as Moldova (3 million).
Population of Mississippi by year
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| Year | Population |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,970,615 |
| 2011 | 2,979,147 |
| 2012 | 2,984,599 |
| 2013 | 2,989,839 |
| 2014 | 2,991,892 |
| 2015 | 2,990,231 |
| 2016 | 2,990,595 |
| 2017 | 2,990,674 |
| 2018 | 2,982,879 |
| 2019 | 2,978,227 |
| 2020 | 2,958,385 |
| 2021 | 2,947,603 |
| 2022 | 2,941,237 |
| 2023 | 2,942,470 |
| 2024 | 2,950,172 |
| 2025 | 2,954,160 |
| Year | Population | Change | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,954,160 | +3,988 | +0.14% |
| 2024 | 2,950,172 | +7,702 | +0.26% |
| 2023 | 2,942,470 | +1,233 | +0.04% |
| 2022 | 2,941,237 | −6,366 | −0.22% |
| 2021 | 2,947,603 | −10,782 | −0.36% |
| 2020 | 2,958,385 | −19,842 | −0.67% |
| 2019 | 2,978,227 | −4,652 | −0.16% |
| 2018 | 2,982,879 | −7,795 | −0.26% |
| 2017 | 2,990,674 | +79 | +0.00% |
| 2016 | 2,990,595 | +364 | +0.01% |
| 2015 | 2,990,231 | −1,661 | −0.06% |
| 2014 | 2,991,892 | +2,053 | +0.07% |
| 2013 | 2,989,839 | +5,240 | +0.18% |
| 2012 | 2,984,599 | +5,452 | +0.18% |
| 2011 | 2,979,147 | +8,532 | +0.29% |
2010–2019 are Vintage 2020 estimates and 2020–2025 are Vintage 2025, so the step between 2019 and 2020 is partly a change of base.
Mississippi among the US’s states
Full ranking →| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 39,355,309 | −0.02% | 11.5% | 98 |
| 2 | Texas | 31,709,821 | +1.25% | 9.3% | 47 |
| 3 | Florida | 23,462,518 | +0.84% | 6.9% | 169 |
| 4 | New York State | 20,002,427 | +0.01% | 5.9% | 164 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 13,059,432 | +0.10% | 3.8% | 113 |
| 6 | Illinois | 12,719,141 | +0.13% | 3.7% | 89 |
| 7 | Ohio | 11,900,510 | +0.34% | 3.5% | 113 |
| 8 | Georgia (US State) | 11,302,748 | +0.88% | 3.3% | 76 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 11,197,968 | +1.32% | 3.3% | 89 |
| 10 | Michigan | 10,127,884 | +0.28% | 3.0% | 69 |
| 11 | New Jersey | 9,548,215 | +0.44% | 2.8% | 501 |
| 12 | Virginia | 8,880,107 | +0.69% | 2.6% | 87 |
| 13 | Washington State | 8,001,020 | +0.92% | 2.3% | 47 |
| 14 | Arizona | 7,623,818 | +0.89% | 2.2% | 26 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 7,315,076 | +0.88% | 2.1% | 69 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 7,154,084 | +0.22% | 2.1% | 354 |
| 17 | Indiana | 6,973,333 | +0.56% | 2.0% | 75 |
| 18 | Missouri | 6,270,541 | +0.43% | 1.8% | 35 |
| 19 | Maryland | 6,265,347 | +0.32% | 1.8% | 249 |
| 20 | Colorado | 6,012,561 | +0.40% | 1.8% | 22 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 5,972,787 | +0.26% | 1.7% | 43 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 5,830,405 | +0.57% | 1.7% | 28 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 5,570,274 | +1.46% | 1.6% | 72 |
| 24 | Alabama | 5,193,088 | +0.58% | 1.5% | 40 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 4,618,189 | +0.07% | 1.4% | 41 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 4,606,864 | +0.50% | 1.3% | 45 |
| 27 | Oregon | 4,273,586 | +0.19% | 1.3% | 17 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 4,123,288 | +0.62% | 1.2% | 23 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 3,688,496 | +0.38% | 1.1% | 294 |
| 30 | Utah | 3,538,904 | +1.02% | 1.0% | 17 |
| 31 | Nevada | 3,282,188 | +0.88% | 1.0% | 12 |
| 32 | Iowa | 3,238,387 | +0.25% | 0.9% | 22 |
| 33 | Arkansas | 3,114,791 | +0.60% | 0.9% | 23 |
| 34 | Kansas | 2,977,220 | +0.40% | 0.9% | 14 |
| 35 | Mississippi | 2,954,160 | +0.14% | 0.9% | 24 |
| 36 | New Mexico | 2,125,498 | −0.06% | 0.6% | 7 |
| 37 | Idaho | 2,029,733 | +1.44% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 2,018,006 | +0.62% | 0.6% | 10 |
| 39 | West Virginia | 1,766,147 | −0.07% | 0.5% | 28 |
| 40 | Hawaii | 1,432,820 | −0.15% | 0.4% | 86 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 1,415,342 | +0.48% | 0.4% | 61 |
| 42 | Maine | 1,414,874 | +0.46% | 0.4% | 18 |
| 43 | Montana | 1,144,694 | +0.63% | 0.3% | 3 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 1,114,521 | +0.37% | 0.3% | 416 |
| 45 | Delaware | 1,059,952 | +0.94% | 0.3% | 210 |
| 46 | South Dakota | 935,094 | +0.86% | 0.3% | 5 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 799,358 | +0.75% | 0.2% | 5 |
| 48 | Alaska | 737,270 | +0.10% | 0.2% | 1 |
| 49 | District of Columbia | 693,645 | +0.34% | 0.2% | 4,381 |
| 50 | Vermont | 644,663 | −0.29% | 0.2% | 27 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 588,753 | +0.35% | 0.2% | 2 |
Largest cities in Mississippi
City proper, not the wider metro area; latest figure in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), so years differ.
- Jackson153,701
- Gulfport71,856
- West Gulfport71,329
- Southaven52,589
- Hattiesburg46,805
- Biloxi45,637
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Source and method
US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. US government work, public domain. Land area, US Census Bureau Gazetteer. The Census Bureau publishes new state estimates each December. Ranks, shares and changes are our arithmetic on the published figures. National figures can differ from the UN’s projection for the US, which uses a different method. The 2026 figure above carries last year’s change forward; it does not come from the source.
Cite this page: Mississippi population, US Census Bureau, 1 July 2025. GlobeMetrics, https://globemetrics.org/world-population/united-states/mississippi/
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