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Belize

422,924

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+5.85K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+75.6%from 240.8K
Life expectancy73.7 years2024
Fertility rate2.02births per woman · 2024
Urban population41.6%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Belize is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1426.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate18.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+13.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+360net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Belize look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 516.63K in 2050—23.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024417.07K
  2. 2050516.63K
  3. 2100447.37K
Median age in 205037.8years
Births in 20505.91Kduring the year
Deaths in 20503.98Kduring the year
Life expectancy78.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196091.32K
  2. 1970120.74K
  3. 1980145.06K
  4. 1990183.08K
  5. 2000240.8K
  6. 2010320.25K
  7. 2020390.81K
  8. 2025422.92K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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