page_title: Papeete
section_title: Historical population
hierarchical_section_title: Papeete / Demographics / Historical population
context_page_description: Papeete is the capital city of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean. The commune of Papeete is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, of which Papeete is the administrative capital. The French High Commissioner also resides in Papeete.
  It is the primary center of Tahitian and French Polynesian public and private governmental, commercial, industrial and financial services, the hub of French Polynesian tourism and a commonly used port of call. The Windward Islands are themselves part of the Society Islands. The name Papeete, sometimes also spelled Pape’ete in Tahitian, means "water from a basket". The urban area of Papeete had a total population of 136,771 inhabitants at the August 2017 census, 26,926 of whom lived in the commune of Papeete proper.
context_section_description: Average population growth of the Papeete urban area:
  1956–1962: +1,107 people per year (+3.5% per year)
  1962–1971: +3,597 people per year (+7.6% per year)
  1971–1977: +2,025 people per year (+2.9% per year)
  1977–1983: +2,400 people per year (+2.9% per year)
  1983–1988: +2,158 people per year (+2.2% per year)
  1988–1996: +1,489 people per year (+1.4% per year)
  1996–2002: +1,873 people per year (+1.6% per year)
  2002–2007: +913 people per year (+0.7% per year) 
  2007–2012: +386 people per year (+0.3% per year)
  2012–2017: +631 people per year (+0.5% per year)
caption: Papeete waterfront
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