Northern America population

Northern America, essentially the United States and Canada, is one of the few wealthy regions still projected to grow through 2100, and it has immigration to thank. Birth rates in both countries sit below the replacement level, so without newcomers the population would stall, but high migration keeps it expanding from about 389 million today toward 475 million. Its share of the world holds steady near 5 percent, a rare constancy in a century of demographic upheaval.

Northern America is home to about 389 million people in 2026, roughly 5% of the world total, spread across 5 countries and territories. Its most populous are United States, Canada, Bermuda.

Northern America is still growing and is not projected to peak before 2100. The population rises toward about 475 million by 2100, +22.1% versus today. Its share of world population climbs from 5% to roughly 5%, the clearest sign of how the world's demographic centre of gravity is shifting.

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 Northern America's century is consistent across the main variants.