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Puerto Rico (US)

3,184,835

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-17.69K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-16.4%from 3.81M
Life expectancy81.9 years2024
Fertility rate0.92births per woman · 2024
Urban population94.3%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Puerto Rico (US) is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1411.2%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6463.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+25.3%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 rate5.7births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.3deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-4.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+5.5Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Puerto Rico (US) look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 2.5M in 2050—22.8% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20243.24M
  2. 20502.5M
  3. 2100995.63K
Median age in 205054.7years
Births in 205010.58Kduring the year
Deaths in 205041.78Kduring the year
Life expectancy85.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19602.36M
  2. 19702.72M
  3. 19803.21M
  4. 19903.54M
  5. 20003.81M
  6. 20103.72M
  7. 20203.28M
  8. 20253.18M
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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