In 2023, it was estimated that approximately 664 million people lived in Latin America and the Caribbean. Brazil is the most populated country in the region, with an estimated 216.4 million inhabitants in that year, followed by Mexico with more than 128.5 million.

The Latin America and the Caribbean Population Time Series data set provides total population estimates using spatially consistent and comparable Units for Latin American municipalities or equivalent administrative Units for the years 1990 and 2000. The data set consists of two vector polygon layers: one layer displays population estimates for subnational administrative Units in 1990 and 2000, including population counts, density, and percent change, at the municipality level or equivalent (level 2); a second layer summarizes this information at the country level (level 0).

A total of around 664.16 million people lived in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023. The female population slightly exceeded the male population. In that year, approximately 337.17 million women lived in this region, around 50.7 percent of the total population. In both genders, the population has been gradually increasing since 2008.

Chart and table of Latin America And The Caribbean population from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

The annual population growth in Latin America & the Caribbean increased by 0.1 percentage points (+15.15 percent) in 2023 in comparison to the previous year. Accordingly, 2023 was the first time during the observed period that the population growth has increased in Latin America & the Caribbean. Annual population growth refers to the change in the population over time, and is affected by factors such as fertility, mortality, and migration.

The population of Latin America and the Caribbean increased from 175 million in 1950 to 515 million in 2000. Where did this growth occur? What is the magnitude of change in different places? How can we visualize the geographic dimensions of population change in Latin America and the Caribbean? We compiled census and other public domain information to analyze both temporal and geographic changes in population in the region. Our database includes population totals for over 18,300 administrative districts within Latin America and the Caribbean. Tabular census data was linked to an administrative division map of the region and handled in a geographic information system. We transformed vector population maps to raster surfaces to make the digital maps comparable with other commonly available geographic information. Validation and error-checking analyses were carried out to compare the database with other sources of population information. The digital population maps created in this project have been put in the public domain and can be downloaded from our website. The Latin America and Caribbean map is part of a larger multi-institutional effort to map population in developing countries. This is the third version of the Latin American and Caribbean population database and it contains new data from the 2000 round of censuses and new and improved accessibility surfaces for creating the raster maps.

Graph and download economic data for Population, Total for Developing Countries in Latin America and Caribbean (SPPOPTOTLLAC) from 1960 to 2023 about Caribbean Economies, Latin America, and population.

Graph and download economic data for Population Ages 0 to 14: All Income Levels for Latin America and Caribbean (SPPOP0014TOZSLCN) from 1960 to 2023 about 0 to 14 years, Caribbean Economies, Latin America, income, and population.

The statistic shows age distribution in Latin America & Caribbean between 2013 to 2023. In 2023, around 22.88 percent of the population of Latin America & Caribbean was between 0 and 14 years old, 67.6 percent was between 15 and 64 and 9.53 percent was 65 years old and over.

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In 2024, approximately 22.81 million people lived in the São Paulo metropolitan area, making it the biggest in Latin America and the Caribbean and the fifth most populated in the world. The homonymous state of São Paulo was also the most populous federal entity in the country. The second place for the region was Mexico City with 22.51 million inhabitants.

Brazil's cities

Brazil is home to two large metropolises, only counting the population within the city limits, São Paulo had approximately 12.4 million inhabitants, and Rio de Janeiro around 6.8 million inhabitants. It also contains a number of smaller, but well known cities such as Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and many others, which report between 2 and 3 million inhabitants each. As a result, the country's population is primarily urban, with nearly 85 percent of inhabitants living in cities.

Mexico City

Mexico City's metropolitan area ranks fifth in the ranking of most populated cities in the world. Founded over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521 after the Spanish conquest as the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the city still stands as one of the most important in Latin America. Nevertheless, the preeminent economic, political, and cultural position of Mexico City has not prevented the metropolis from suffering the problems affecting the rest of the country, namely, inequality and violence. Only in 2021, the city registered a crime incidence of 45,336 reported cases for every 100,000 inhabitants and around 32 percent of the population lived under the poverty line.

In 2022, less than eight percent of the population in Latin America had either a high or upper-middle income level. Slightly over a fifth of the population fell in the non-poor with low incomes' stratum.

Venezuela and Brazil were among the Latin American countries with the highest percentage of population with a bank account. In 2021, it was found that 84 percent of Venezuelans had an account at a bank or other type of financial institution, whereas in Brazil that share also amounted to 84 percent.

DATA DESCRIPTION: Version 2.0 estimates of total number of people per grid square for five timepoints between 2000 and 2020 at five year intervals; national totals have been adjusted to match UN Population Division estimates for each time point(1) REGION: Latin America and the Caribbean SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 1km at the equator) PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84 UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org) FILENAMES: Example - LAC_PPP_2010_adj_v2.tif = Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) population dataset presenting people per pixel (PPP) for 2010, adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), dataset version 2.0 (v2) DATASET CONSTRUCTION DETAILS: This dataset is a mosaic of all WorldPop country level LAC datasets resampled to 1km resolution. The continental grouping of countries honours the macro geographical classification developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division(2). For countries within each continental group which have not been mapped by WorldPop, GPWv4 1km population count data(3) was used to complete the mosaic. Full details of WorldPop population mapping methodologies are described here: www.worldpop.org.uk/data/methods/ DATE OF PRODUCTION: November 2016 Also included: (i) csv table describing the data source of the modelled population data for each country dataset (either WorldPop or GPWv4) which featured in the continental raster mosaic. _ (1) United Nations Population Division, WorldPopulation Prospects, 2015 Revision. http://esa.un.org/wpp/ (2) United Nations Statistics Division. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm (3) Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2016. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Count. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). http://dx.doi.org/10.7927/H4X63JVC. Accessed 30 Sept 2016

Graph and download economic data for Population Ages 15 to 64 for Developing Countries in Latin America and Caribbean (SPPOP1564TOZSLAC) from 1960 to 2023 about Caribbean Economies, Latin America, 15 to 64 years, and population.

This dataset is about books and is filtered where the book subjects is Latin America-Population, featuring 9 columns including author, BNB id, book, book publisher, and book subjects. The preview is ordered by publication date (descending).

Chart and table of Latin America The Caribbean Ibrd Only Countries population from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

As of 2023, the largest segment of the population in Latin America falls within the age group of 19 to 30 years, which consists of the youth population. This age range comprises approximately 127.9 million individuals across the countries encompassing the region.

Canada was home to almost 4 million individuals who identified themselves as visible minorities in 2001, accounting for 13.4% of the total population. The proportion of the visible minority population has increased steadily over the past 20 years. In 1981, 1.1 million visible minorities accounted for 4.7% of the total population; by 1996, 3.2 million accounted for 11.2%.

Population, Total: All Income Levels for Latin America and Caribbean was 652276325.00000 Persons in January of 2020, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Population, Total: All Income Levels for Latin America and Caribbean reached a record high of 652276325.00000 in January of 2020 and a record low of 219828794.00000 in January of 1960. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Population, Total: All Income Levels for Latin America and Caribbean - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.