Population in Latin America and Caribbean

The population of Latin America and Caribbean was 666,592,570 people in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1960.

Measure: Population (UN estimates) Unit: People Data: 1960 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Latin America and Caribbean is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Latin America and Caribbean, 2025 666,592,570 People
Change from 2024 +0.7% 2024: 662,185,614 people
World, 2025 8,215,424,893 people Official aggregate

Population in Latin America and Caribbean over time

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People. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Population (UN estimates) (people), 2001 to 2025
Period Latin America and CaribbeanWorld
2025 666,592,570 people 8,215,424,893 people
2024 662,185,614 people 8,140,897,523 people
2023 657,616,519 people 8,062,923,417 people
2022 653,108,131 people 7,988,550,201 people
2021 649,236,092 people 7,919,567,995 people
2020 645,498,187 people 7,853,863,139 people
2019 640,962,372 people 7,777,162,476 people
2018 635,778,081 people 7,696,159,728 people
2017 630,414,986 people 7,613,788,655 people
2016 624,737,786 people 7,528,221,579 people
2015 618,868,462 people 7,441,084,771 people
2014 612,849,401 people 7,353,532,223 people
2013 606,683,307 people 7,265,404,737 people
2012 600,420,316 people 7,176,482,165 people
2011 594,086,829 people 7,086,704,141 people
2010 587,752,505 people 7,000,860,073 people
2009 581,388,129 people 6,916,168,196 people
2008 574,908,733 people 6,830,080,867 people
2007 568,345,245 people 6,744,049,498 people
2006 561,751,999 people 6,659,536,021 people
2005 555,120,780 people 6,575,410,029 people
2004 548,455,563 people 6,492,354,627 people
2003 541,643,365 people 6,409,352,386 people
2002 534,691,591 people 6,327,171,255 people
2001 527,572,583 people 6,244,739,668 people

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.7% from 662,185,614 people in 2024.
  • Since 2015, when it was 618,868,462 people, the figure has changed by +7.7%.
  • The figure for the world in 2025 was 8,215,424,893 people.

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All statistics for Latin America and Caribbean

Source and dates

Original producer
United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SP.POP.TOTL · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2025 for Latin America and Caribbean
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects