Mapped: How Populations Have Changed in the Americas (1990-2023)

Visual Capitalist September 5, 2024
Pallavi Rao

Currently more than one billion people live in the Americas, an area with 35 countries and many overseas territories and dependencies.

This color-coded map shows population changes by country in the Americas from 1990 to 2023. Data was sourced from the 2024 World Population Prospects from the UN.

Importantly the graphic only includes sovereign states. Furthermore, some country labels have been skipped for legibility. The full data, including full population figures, can be found in the next section’s table.

Three Decades of Population Boom

The top 14 largest countries in the Americas by population size have all seen nearly 40% population growth between 1990–2023.

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