Latin America & the Caribbean population

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.