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Honduras

11,005,850

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+180.15K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+67.3%from 6.58M
Life expectancy73.0 years2024
Fertility rate2.48births per woman · 2024
Urban population59.3%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Lower middle income

The population pulse

How the population changes.

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

Birth rate21.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.5deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+17.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-4.78Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Honduras look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 14.85M in 2050—37.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202410.83M
  2. 205014.85M
  3. 210017.03M
Median age in 205032.3years
Births in 2050217.63Kduring the year
Deaths in 205093.84Kduring the year
Life expectancy77.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19602.06M
  2. 19702.75M
  3. 19803.73M
  4. 19904.98M
  5. 20006.58M
  6. 20108.37M
  7. 202010.12M
  8. 202511.01M
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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