Country or area · Central America · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Belize population

Belize population now

430,038

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 421,316–441,964.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 411,106

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 428,648; 95% range, 31 Dec: 421,316–441,964
Median age: 28.3
Aged 65+: 5.4%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2063

male female projection · one cell = 100 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

BLZ · 1950–2100 · in brief

Belize in numbers

Belize had 411,106 people in mid-2023, the 177th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 6.0 times its 1950 population of 69,073.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2063 at 528 thousand, then falling to 447 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 105 thousand to 1.8 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2064 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 20.6 in 1950 and 26.9 in 2023; the projection has 51.5 in 2100. 4.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 32.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2051 at 356 thousand.

Among countries it ranks 177th in 2023, 179th in 2050 and 177th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Brunei in 2053, Montenegro in 2053 and Malta in 2056. It is overtaken by Mayotte in 2039, Vanuatu in 2048 and French Guiana in 2059.

Population, mid-2023: 411,106
Rank by population, 2023: 177 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.08% · +8,373 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 18
Land area, 2023: 22,810 km²
Births, 2023: 7,410
Deaths, 2023: 2,025
Net migration, 2023: +595
Children per woman, 2023: 2.01
Median age, 2023: 26.9 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 73.6 years
In a city, 2025: 18 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 69,073
Projected, mid-2050: 516,627
Projected, mid-2100: 447,374

BLZ · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Belize, 1950–2100

Belize: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	68,155		3,651	1,228	6.69	49.2
1951	estimate	69,991		3,696	1,253	6.68	49.9
1952	estimate	72,252		3,738	1,264	6.66	50.7
1953	estimate	74,436		3,779	1,262	6.64	51.4
1954	estimate	76,593		3,818	1,253	6.62	52.2
1955	estimate	78,755		3,856	1,258	6.60	52.7
1956	estimate	80,957		3,894	1,228	6.58	53.9
1957	estimate	83,187		3,932	1,212	6.56	54.8
1958	estimate	85,497		3,974	1,196	6.54	55.7
1959	estimate	87,822		4,018	1,180	6.52	56.6
1960	estimate	90,157		4,068	1,166	6.50	57.4
1961	estimate	92,479		4,093	1,437	6.48	52.9
1962	estimate	94,786		4,111	1,150	6.46	58.7
1963	estimate	97,298		4,129	1,145	6.44	59.3
1964	estimate	100,109		4,154	1,144	6.42	59.8
1965	estimate	103,098		4,186	1,141	6.40	60.4
1966	estimate	106,253		4,230	1,139	6.38	60.9
1967	estimate	109,558		4,289	1,132	6.36	61.4
1968	estimate	112,986		4,366	1,125	6.34	62.0
1969	estimate	116,441		4,463	1,116	6.32	62.5
1970	estimate	119,639		4,585	1,098	6.30	63.0
1971	estimate	121,832		4,738	1,086	6.29	63.5
1972	estimate	123,779		4,894	1,081	6.28	64.0
1973	estimate	125,573		5,051	1,077	6.29	64.5
1974	estimate	127,316		5,210	1,074	6.29	64.9
1975	estimate	129,055		5,365	1,071	6.28	65.4
1976	estimate	131,718		5,559	1,075	6.25	65.8
1977	estimate	134,479		5,738	1,079	6.20	66.1
1978	estimate	137,295		5,894	1,090	6.11	66.3
1979	estimate	140,131		6,020	1,090	5.99	66.7
1980	estimate	143,224		6,126	1,096	5.85	66.9
1981	estimate	146,900		6,234	1,102	5.68	67.1
1982	estimate	150,671		6,257	1,103	5.50	67.3
1983	estimate	154,424		6,261	1,099	5.31	67.6
1984	estimate	158,169		6,220	1,091	5.12	68.0
1985	estimate	161,919		6,235	1,080	5.00	68.3
1986	estimate	165,672		6,307	1,069	4.94	68.7
1987	estimate	169,435		6,389	1,061	4.88	69.1
1988	estimate	173,240		6,524	1,059	4.87	69.4
1989	estimate	177,121		6,696	1,068	4.86	69.5
1990	estimate	181,092		6,808	1,081	4.80	69.6
1991	estimate	185,059		6,735	1,080	4.59	69.7
1992	estimate	189,021		6,654	1,093	4.43	69.6
1993	estimate	192,945		6,519	1,083	4.21	69.6
1994	estimate	196,859		6,356	1,074	3.97	69.6
1995	estimate	201,335		6,423	1,084	3.88	69.5
1996	estimate	206,957		6,449	1,110	3.75	69.4
1997	estimate	213,664		6,655	1,160	3.74	69.2
1998	estimate	221,227		6,966	1,233	3.75	68.9
1999	estimate	229,119		7,195	1,281	3.73	69.0
2000	estimate	236,998		7,275	1,341	3.63	68.9
2001	estimate	244,600		7,305	1,390	3.53	68.9
2002	estimate	252,157		7,345	1,378	3.43	69.5
2003	estimate	259,860		7,365	1,396	3.33	69.8
2004	estimate	267,700		7,410	1,413	3.25	70.2
2005	estimate	275,677		7,475	1,444	3.17	70.3
2006	estimate	283,784		7,347	1,473	3.02	70.5
2007	estimate	291,973		7,239	1,511	2.88	70.7
2008	estimate	300,227		7,208	1,565	2.78	70.7
2009	estimate	308,496		7,112	1,606	2.66	70.8
2010	estimate	316,732		7,037	1,657	2.55	70.9
2011	estimate	323,758		7,204	1,696	2.53	71.0
2012	estimate	330,838		7,358	1,730	2.51	71.1
2013	estimate	337,990		7,535	1,767	2.50	71.3
2014	estimate	345,264		7,667	1,803	2.47	71.4
2015	estimate	352,581		7,732	1,833	2.43	71.7
2016	estimate	360,085		7,795	1,865	2.40	71.8
2017	estimate	369,325		7,944	1,901	2.37	72.1
2018	estimate	377,078		8,039	1,928	2.34	72.3
2019	estimate	383,375		7,460	1,945	2.14	72.6
2020	estimate	388,282		7,173	2,179	2.04	71.6
2021	estimate	393,341		6,539	2,352	1.84	70.9
2022	estimate	397,352		7,004	2,178	1.95	72.2
2023	estimate	408,114		7,410	2,025	2.01	73.6
2024	estimate	414,097		7,529	2,069	2.02	73.7
2025	projection	420,046	417,131–422,823	7,518	2,122	2.01	73.9
2026	projection	425,802	419,634–432,048	7,471	2,175	1.99	74.1
2027	projection	431,487	421,316–441,964	7,412	2,231	1.98	74.3
2028	projection	436,939	422,558–452,002	7,340	2,289	1.96	74.4
2029	projection	442,218	423,162–462,276	7,253	2,349	1.94	74.6
2030	projection	447,372	423,340–472,797	7,176	2,411	1.93	74.7
2031	projection	452,306	422,747–483,332	7,101	2,473	1.92	74.9
2032	projection	457,149	421,631–493,940	7,033	2,540	1.91	75.1
2033	projection	461,886	420,548–503,361	6,960	2,609	1.90	75.2
2034	projection	466,527	419,561–514,391	6,906	2,680	1.89	75.4
2035	projection	471,032	417,508–526,467	6,836	2,752	1.88	75.6
2036	projection	475,233	415,942–538,386	6,757	2,824	1.86	75.7
2037	projection	479,229	414,448–550,258	6,686	2,899	1.85	75.9
2038	projection	483,082	412,602–562,470	6,609	2,974	1.85	76.1
2039	projection	486,674	411,617–574,482	6,521	3,053	1.84	76.2
2040	projection	489,990	408,472–586,837	6,436	3,131	1.83	76.4
2041	projection	493,200	405,292–596,326	6,362	3,213	1.82	76.5
2042	projection	496,248	402,232–607,991	6,294	3,297	1.82	76.7
2043	projection	499,143	400,126–621,300	6,235	3,379	1.81	76.9
2044	projection	501,873	395,891–633,869	6,183	3,465	1.81	77.0
2045	projection	504,482	393,642–649,977	6,133	3,551	1.80	77.2
2046	projection	506,917	389,508–664,378	6,090	3,633	1.80	77.3
2047	projection	509,311	385,006–675,941	6,048	3,720	1.79	77.5
2048	projection	511,545	380,896–691,471	6,002	3,806	1.79	77.7
2049	projection	513,753	376,460–704,178	5,956	3,894	1.78	77.8
2050	projection	515,685	371,215–714,898	5,907	3,980	1.78	78.0
2051	projection	517,569	366,070–729,315	5,864	4,068	1.77	78.1
2052	projection	519,203	361,765–750,198	5,817	4,154	1.77	78.3
2053	projection	520,793	358,993–767,987	5,766	4,238	1.77	78.5
2054	projection	522,116	354,041–783,439	5,718	4,324	1.76	78.6
2055	projection	523,354	348,717–795,784	5,663	4,414	1.76	78.8
2056	projection	524,441	345,914–816,746	5,611	4,503	1.76	79.0
2057	projection	525,357	340,344–836,482	5,556	4,591	1.75	79.1
2058	projection	526,196	333,377–847,854	5,497	4,678	1.75	79.3
2059	projection	526,873	326,766–869,907	5,438	4,763	1.75	79.4
2060	projection	527,412	321,092–892,688	5,370	4,851	1.74	79.6
2061	projection	527,753	315,331–911,236	5,311	4,940	1.74	79.8
2062	projection	527,892	309,052–926,499	5,251	5,027	1.74	79.9
2063	projection	528,029	304,353–939,179	5,198	5,118	1.74	80.1
2064	projection	528,012	299,260–954,352	5,144	5,210	1.74	80.2
2065	projection	527,846	296,314–969,881	5,089	5,303	1.74	80.4
2066	projection	527,553	289,148–984,230	5,032	5,394	1.73	80.5
2067	projection	527,088	0.3–1.0 million	4,973	5,482	1.73	80.7
2068	projection	526,505	0.3–1.0 million	4,919	5,570	1.73	80.9
2069	projection	525,580	0.3–1.1 million	4,861	5,663	1.73	81.0
2070	projection	524,593	0.3–1.1 million	4,805	5,751	1.73	81.2
2071	projection	523,545	0.3–1.1 million	4,751	5,841	1.73	81.3
2072	projection	522,232	0.3–1.1 million	4,698	5,927	1.73	81.5
2073	projection	520,846	0.2–1.1 million	4,644	6,012	1.73	81.6
2074	projection	519,252	0.2–1.2 million	4,593	6,098	1.72	81.8
2075	projection	517,540	0.2–1.2 million	4,542	6,175	1.72	81.9
2076	projection	515,782	0.2–1.2 million	4,495	6,257	1.72	82.1
2077	projection	513,847	0.2–1.3 million	4,445	6,327	1.72	82.2
2078	projection	511,622	0.2–1.3 million	4,393	6,398	1.72	82.4
2079	projection	509,379	0.2–1.3 million	4,343	6,463	1.72	82.5
2080	projection	507,088	0.2–1.3 million	4,300	6,521	1.72	82.7
2081	projection	504,708	0.2–1.4 million	4,253	6,574	1.71	82.8
2082	projection	502,259	0.2–1.4 million	4,210	6,629	1.71	82.9
2083	projection	499,674	0.2–1.4 million	4,162	6,667	1.71	83.1
2084	projection	496,984	0.2–1.4 million	4,115	6,704	1.71	83.2
2085	projection	494,271	0.2–1.4 million	4,070	6,734	1.71	83.4
2086	projection	491,536	0.2–1.4 million	4,028	6,752	1.70	83.5
2087	projection	488,760	0.2–1.5 million	3,988	6,774	1.70	83.6
2088	projection	485,766	0.2–1.5 million	3,948	6,780	1.71	83.8
2089	projection	482,827	0.2–1.5 million	3,908	6,778	1.71	83.9
2090	projection	479,917	0.2–1.5 million	3,868	6,771	1.70	84.1
2091	projection	476,931	0.2–1.6 million	3,822	6,757	1.70	84.2
2092	projection	473,893	0.1–1.6 million	3,776	6,738	1.70	84.3
2093	projection	470,866	0.1–1.6 million	3,729	6,721	1.70	84.5
2094	projection	467,799	0.1–1.7 million	3,687	6,696	1.70	84.6
2095	projection	464,672	0.1–1.7 million	3,643	6,670	1.69	84.7
2096	projection	461,520	0.1–1.7 million	3,598	6,632	1.69	84.9
2097	projection	458,374	0.1–1.7 million	3,556	6,600	1.69	85.0
2098	projection	455,275	0.1–1.8 million	3,517	6,567	1.69	85.1
2099	projection	452,138	0.1–1.8 million	3,476	6,528	1.69	85.3
2100	projection	448,968	0.1–1.8 million	3,435	6,495	1.69	85.4

Show the numbers: Belize, mid-2026, by single year of age

Belize: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	3,816	3,633
1	3,831	3,644
2	3,806	3,618
3	3,686	3,507
4	3,474	3,306
5	3,507	3,338
6	3,731	3,552
7	3,942	3,752
8	4,061	3,867
9	4,006	3,817
10	3,958	3,772
11	3,922	3,742
12	3,870	3,692
13	3,790	3,616
14	3,706	3,537
15	3,626	3,460
16	3,713	3,549
17	3,850	3,685
18	3,864	3,703
19	3,875	3,730
20	3,886	3,756
21	3,904	3,774
22	3,931	3,798
23	3,991	3,843
24	4,074	3,909
25	4,129	3,966
26	4,148	3,988
27	4,126	3,964
28	4,066	3,912
29	4,024	3,867
30	4,010	3,839
31	3,988	3,812
32	3,950	3,768
33	3,888	3,712
34	3,801	3,649
35	3,700	3,568
36	3,593	3,482
37	3,489	3,399
38	3,383	3,302
39	3,272	3,206
40	3,150	3,120
41	3,029	3,035
42	2,919	2,952
43	2,811	2,859
44	2,711	2,750
45	2,600	2,630
46	2,486	2,522
47	2,390	2,439
48	2,309	2,374
49	2,246	2,312
50	2,181	2,242
51	2,100	2,173
52	2,030	2,116
53	1,966	2,069
54	1,899	2,022
55	1,830	1,948
56	1,748	1,845
57	1,653	1,738
58	1,564	1,640
59	1,495	1,562
60	1,434	1,493
61	1,375	1,426
62	1,318	1,370
63	1,255	1,313
64	1,184	1,250
65	1,103	1,180
66	1,018	1,102
67	938	1,020
68	860	934
69	791	861
70	728	794
71	665	728
72	607	667
73	555	610
74	503	560
75	452	514
76	403	464
77	357	408
78	315	358
79	276	312
80	240	270
81	208	233
82	184	204
83	161	180
84	139	158
85	120	138
86	101	118
87	85	96
88	70	78
89	56	64
90	44	52
91	33	40
92	24	30
93	18	23
94	14	17
95	10	13
96	7	8
97	5	6
98	2	4
99	2	2
100+	2	2

BLZ · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Belize, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

BLZ · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Belize

On the UN's projection, Belize will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2051: 356,286 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 280,234.

100 aged 15–64

40 children

7 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 37 years: 2021–2057.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

BLZ · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Belize, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Belize gains 1,411 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 301 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 5,936 (2022); its biggest loss, 2,399 (1974).

In 2024, 68,706 people living in Belize had been born in another country, 17 of every 100 people there, against 17 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

BLZ · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Belize

Of every 100 babies born in Belize in 2023, 15 had a mother under 20, 74 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 11 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 15 under 20 and 15 aged 35 or older.

1950
15 · 70 · 15

2023
15 · 74 · 11

2050 · projected
12 · 73 · 15

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 7,410
Average age when women have a baby: 27.2 years; 28.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 55; 150 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Belize by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	9	18	25	20	14	2
15–19	540	1,084	1,318	1,058	692	146
20–24	1,110	1,811	2,270	2,259	1,545	534
25–29	857	1,141	1,770	1,903	1,462	943
30–34	585	691	1,105	1,329	1,325	1,069
35–39	400	433	597	649	660	580
40–44	134	166	176	183	203	156
45–49	16	21	14	9	6	5
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	3,651	5,365	7,275	7,410	5,907	3,435

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

BLZ · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Belize

In Belize, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 63.8 (95% range 63.1–64.6), out of 73.3 in all. That leaves 9.5 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

64.7 in full health, 10.7 not: 75.4 years

Men

63.0 in full health, 8.4 not: 71.4 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 64.7 healthy years of 75.4. Men: 63.0 of 71.4. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 65.2.

BLZ · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Belize

At the end of 2025, Belize was hosting 2,183 people who had crossed a border into it, about 5 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad2,183
Belize nationals abroad1,490

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 50 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Belize living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 217 people asked for asylum in Belize for the first time; 413 people from Belize asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Belize whose claims were decided that year, 14 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

BLZ · of every 100 people

How people live in Belize

Of every 100 people in Belize in 2025, 18 lived in a city, 41 in a town or suburb and 41 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 20 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

BLZ · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Belize went in school

Of every 100 adults in Belize in 2020, 4 never went to school and 37 finished upper secondary or went further.

4 never went to school 19 some primary 31 finished primary 9 finished lower secondary 20 finished upper secondary 17 studied after school

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 9.3 of every 100 women and 8.6 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 0.8 and 0.9.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2055; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2080.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

BLZ · cities · 2025

Cities in Belize

Belize had 1 city in 2025, home to 75,592 people.

Belize City75,592

How to read this: the city in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Belize are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.