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Curacao

156,263

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+2962024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+16.7%from 133.86K
Life expectancy77.0 years2024
Fertility rate1.40births per woman · 2024
Urban population91.5%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Curacao 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 0–1414.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6468.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+17.3%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 rate7.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.1deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-2.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+470net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Curacao look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 173.5K in 2050—6.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024185.48K
  2. 2050173.5K
  3. 2100120.45K
Median age in 205047.3years
Births in 20501.17Kduring the year
Deaths in 20502.34Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 1960124.83K
  2. 1970144.74K
  3. 1980148.04K
  4. 1990145.4K
  5. 2000133.86K
  6. 2010148.7K
  7. 2020155.48K
  8. 2025156.26K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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