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Dominican Republic

11,520,487

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+92.93K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+34.2%from 8.58M
Life expectancy73.9 years2024
Fertility rate2.22births per woman · 2024
Urban population72.5%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Dominican Republic 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 0–1426.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.2%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 rate17.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+11.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-35.31Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Dominican Republic look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 13M in 2050—13.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202411.43M
  2. 205013M
  3. 210011.67M
Median age in 205036.2years
Births in 2050165.94Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050118.48Kduring the year
Life expectancy77.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19603.27M
  2. 19704.4M
  3. 19805.73M
  4. 19907.15M
  5. 20008.58M
  6. 20109.82M
  7. 202011.01M
  8. 202511.52M
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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