Chimpanzee Population 2025. This strategy highlights the actions necessary to better understand western chimpanzee distribution, population trends, baselines of genetic and cultural diversity, measures that will improve the effectiveness of conservation actions and increase knowledge and understanding. Population estimates suggest that chimpanzee numbers have declined by more than 80% over the past century, with only an estimated 172,000 to 300,000 individuals remaining in the wild.

On this episode of the scienceline podcast, reporter niranjana rajalakshmi speaks with. The study focused on the critically endangered western chimpanzees, one of four chimpanzee subspecies.