Latin America & the Caribbean population

Latin America and the Caribbean raced through the demographic transition in a single generation, and the region now looks more like Europe than like Africa. Fertility has fallen below the replacement level across most of it, so its population is projected to peak around mid-century and then decline. Brazil and Mexico, its two giants, are both ageing, and the region's share of world population edges down from about 8 percent today toward 6 percent by 2100.

Latin America & the Caribbean is home to about 670 million people in 2026, roughly 8% of the world total, spread across 50 countries and territories. Its most populous are Brazil, Mexico, Colombia.

Latin America & the Caribbean keeps growing for now, peaking at about 731 million around 2053, before easing back to roughly 615 million by 2100 as fertility falls. Its share of the world edges down from 8% to about 6% over the same period.

These are the UN's medium-variant figures, the central scenario rather than a forecast. The further out they run the wider the plausible range, but the broad shape of Latin America & the Caribbean's century is consistent across the main variants.