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Curaçao population

UN name: Curacao

Curaçao population now

185,425

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: 171,458–199,225.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 185,427

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 185,444; 95% range, 31 Dec: 171,458–199,225
Median age: 40.0
Aged 65+: 17.8%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 50 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

CUW · 1950–2100 · in brief

Curaçao in numbers

Curaçao had 185,427 people in mid-2023, the 190th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 1.8 times its 1950 population of 102 thousand.

Its population peaked in 2019 at 190 thousand and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 120 thousand in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 60,522 to 228 thousand.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 2019, and do so in every projected year to 2100.

The median age was 21.9 in 1950 and 39.2 in 2023; the projection has 53.9 in 2100. 16.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 35.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2019 at 131 thousand; in 2023 it was 127 thousand.

Its place in the world by population: 190th in 2023, 192nd in 2050, 193rd in 2100. It is overtaken by Guam in 2038, Kiribati in 2047 and Micronesia in 2092.

Population, mid-2023: 185,427
Rank by population, 2023: 190 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.04% · +83 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 418
Land area, 2023: 444 km²
Births, 2023: 1,394
Deaths, 2023: 1,844
Net migration, 2023: +518
Children per woman, 2023: 1.07
Median age, 2023: 39.2 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 76.8 years
In a city, 2025: 60 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 101,770
Projected, mid-2050: 173,498
Projected, mid-2100: 120,454

CUW · 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. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Curaçao, 1950–2100

Curaçao: 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	100,485		3,762	1,180	4.98	60.3
1951	estimate	103,055		3,854	1,155	5.01	61.0
1952	estimate	105,762		3,949	1,136	5.04	61.6
1953	estimate	108,587		4,041	1,122	5.07	62.1
1954	estimate	111,496		4,142	1,107	5.11	62.7
1955	estimate	114,529		4,247	1,093	5.16	63.3
1956	estimate	117,685		4,326	1,081	5.17	63.8
1957	estimate	120,930		4,411	1,071	5.18	64.3
1958	estimate	124,262		4,490	1,065	5.19	64.7
1959	estimate	127,699		4,550	1,058	5.18	65.1
1960	estimate	131,187		4,591	1,057	5.13	65.4
1961	estimate	133,184		4,565	1,046	5.04	65.8
1962	estimate	135,407		4,535	1,043	4.93	66.0
1963	estimate	137,507		4,501	1,038	4.80	66.3
1964	estimate	139,542		4,453	1,034	4.64	66.6
1965	estimate	141,518		4,403	1,031	4.47	66.9
1966	estimate	143,411		4,309	1,026	4.26	67.1
1967	estimate	145,226		4,211	1,022	4.06	67.4
1968	estimate	146,970		4,076	1,018	3.83	67.7
1969	estimate	148,621		3,939	1,013	3.61	67.9
1970	estimate	150,168		3,798	1,006	3.40	68.2
1971	estimate	151,562		3,641	1,000	3.18	68.5
1972	estimate	152,802		3,504	992	2.99	68.8
1973	estimate	153,762		3,461	990	2.87	69.1
1974	estimate	154,398		3,420	989	2.77	69.4
1975	estimate	154,956		3,361	989	2.66	69.7
1976	estimate	155,434		3,301	989	2.55	70.0
1977	estimate	155,808		3,258	991	2.46	70.2
1978	estimate	156,128		3,219	994	2.38	70.5
1979	estimate	156,379		3,193	994	2.31	70.7
1980	estimate	156,577		3,197	998	2.27	71.0
1981	estimate	156,743		3,219	1,001	2.25	71.2
1982	estimate	156,846		3,244	1,006	2.24	71.4
1983	estimate	156,840		3,271	1,015	2.24	71.5
1984	estimate	156,814		3,284	1,021	2.24	71.7
1985	estimate	156,748		3,292	1,029	2.24	71.9
1986	estimate	156,649		3,280	1,038	2.24	72.0
1987	estimate	156,532		3,258	1,045	2.24	72.1
1988	estimate	156,354		3,239	1,056	2.25	72.2
1989	estimate	156,147		3,213	1,075	2.27	72.2
1990	estimate	155,889		3,201	1,074	2.30	72.4
1991	estimate	155,590		3,225	1,085	2.37	72.5
1992	estimate	155,304		3,226	1,092	2.43	72.7
1993	estimate	154,865		3,132	1,104	2.44	72.7
1994	estimate	154,122		3,029	1,111	2.43	72.8
1995	estimate	153,219		2,926	1,122	2.42	72.8
1996	estimate	152,166		2,815	1,128	2.40	72.9
1997	estimate	150,981		2,687	1,135	2.37	73.0
1998	estimate	149,627		2,546	1,146	2.31	73.1
1999	estimate	148,107		2,429	1,154	2.29	73.2
2000	estimate	146,413		2,398	1,163	2.34	73.3
2001	estimate	144,644		2,370	1,175	2.40	73.4
2002	estimate	144,858		2,225	1,187	2.30	73.5
2003	estimate	146,944		2,138	1,211	2.19	73.6
2004	estimate	148,879		2,066	1,237	2.10	73.7
2005	estimate	150,714		2,026	1,264	2.04	73.9
2006	estimate	151,912		1,982	1,295	1.98	74.0
2007	estimate	153,098		1,932	1,321	1.92	74.1
2008	estimate	154,234		1,890	1,347	1.87	74.3
2009	estimate	155,316		1,904	1,376	1.88	74.5
2010	estimate	156,334		2,205	1,354	2.19	75.1
2011	estimate	157,424		2,118	1,351	2.11	75.6
2012	estimate	159,708		2,262	1,369	2.19	76.0
2013	estimate	162,072		2,191	1,388	2.10	76.2
2014	estimate	164,146		2,109	1,422	2.00	76.4
2015	estimate	165,908		2,020	1,459	1.90	76.5
2016	estimate	167,316		1,821	1,528	1.70	76.3
2017	estimate	168,249		1,572	1,566	1.46	76.4
2018	estimate	168,783		1,621	1,611	1.49	76.5
2019	estimate	194,384		1,601	1,696	1.18	76.5
2020	estimate	184,702		1,388	1,737	1.10	76.5
2021	estimate	185,334		1,377	1,932	1.08	75.7
2022	estimate	185,295		1,385	1,799	1.07	76.7
2023	estimate	185,394		1,394	1,844	1.07	76.8
2024	estimate	185,460		1,399	1,870	1.07	77.0
2025	projection	185,503	177,703–192,079	1,398	1,897	1.07	77.2
2026	projection	185,471	174,307–196,256	1,400	1,926	1.07	77.3
2027	projection	185,410	171,458–199,225	1,402	1,954	1.08	77.5
2028	projection	185,316	169,196–200,972	1,400	1,980	1.08	77.7
2029	projection	185,177	166,907–203,836	1,399	2,008	1.09	77.8
2030	projection	184,965	164,903–205,837	1,395	2,034	1.09	78.0
2031	projection	184,686	163,334–207,574	1,390	2,060	1.10	78.2
2032	projection	184,385	162,104–209,183	1,381	2,085	1.11	78.4
2033	projection	184,054	161,188–211,256	1,370	2,109	1.12	78.5
2034	projection	183,675	158,776–214,156	1,356	2,135	1.12	78.7
2035	projection	183,240	156,450–214,802	1,343	2,158	1.13	78.8
2036	projection	182,818	154,463–214,868	1,331	2,180	1.14	79.0
2037	projection	182,307	152,704–215,911	1,323	2,200	1.15	79.2
2038	projection	181,800	150,422–216,773	1,312	2,219	1.15	79.3
2039	projection	181,295	149,648–218,161	1,304	2,239	1.16	79.5
2040	projection	180,704	146,184–220,616	1,299	2,257	1.17	79.6
2041	projection	180,100	145,095–221,768	1,295	2,272	1.17	79.8
2042	projection	179,502	143,756–221,882	1,291	2,287	1.18	79.9
2043	projection	178,857	142,423–223,223	1,287	2,302	1.19	80.1
2044	projection	178,222	140,824–224,389	1,280	2,312	1.19	80.2
2045	projection	177,537	139,434–225,257	1,273	2,324	1.20	80.4
2046	projection	176,850	138,582–227,566	1,261	2,331	1.21	80.5
2047	projection	176,177	137,428–226,694	1,245	2,338	1.21	80.7
2048	projection	175,419	135,676–227,972	1,222	2,342	1.21	80.8
2049	projection	174,671	134,200–231,485	1,197	2,344	1.22	81.0
2050	projection	173,895	133,010–231,541	1,170	2,344	1.22	81.1
2051	projection	173,100	130,743–230,630	1,142	2,343	1.23	81.2
2052	projection	172,273	129,654–231,557	1,113	2,339	1.23	81.4
2053	projection	171,422	128,539–232,662	1,087	2,335	1.24	81.5
2054	projection	170,539	126,805–232,415	1,062	2,331	1.24	81.6
2055	projection	169,617	125,278–232,019	1,038	2,323	1.25	81.8
2056	projection	168,689	123,348–231,210	1,021	2,317	1.25	81.9
2057	projection	167,742	123,251–231,921	1,005	2,306	1.26	82.0
2058	projection	166,813	120,967–232,834	993	2,299	1.26	82.1
2059	projection	165,930	118,648–230,872	987	2,289	1.27	82.3
2060	projection	164,992	117,071–231,173	982	2,278	1.27	82.4
2061	projection	164,064	115,991–230,060	979	2,269	1.28	82.5
2062	projection	163,130	115,527–231,360	975	2,262	1.28	82.7
2063	projection	162,202	114,437–233,949	974	2,256	1.28	82.8
2064	projection	161,260	112,189–235,448	972	2,250	1.28	82.9
2065	projection	160,335	112,324–234,982	970	2,246	1.29	83.0
2066	projection	159,405	110,094–237,021	969	2,245	1.29	83.2
2067	projection	158,461	108,615–236,641	965	2,244	1.29	83.3
2068	projection	157,522	106,115–238,335	962	2,246	1.30	83.4
2069	projection	156,578	105,520–237,363	958	2,250	1.30	83.5
2070	projection	155,598	103,091–237,956	952	2,256	1.30	83.7
2071	projection	154,628	101,816–237,543	949	2,265	1.31	83.8
2072	projection	153,644	99,175–237,427	945	2,274	1.31	83.9
2073	projection	152,622	97,801–238,570	940	2,284	1.31	84.0
2074	projection	151,595	95,963–238,745	934	2,297	1.31	84.2
2075	projection	150,524	94,865–238,894	928	2,310	1.32	84.3
2076	projection	149,467	93,844–239,117	923	2,320	1.32	84.4
2077	projection	148,394	91,841–238,878	918	2,333	1.33	84.5
2078	projection	147,291	90,608–238,289	911	2,345	1.33	84.6
2079	projection	146,156	89,153–236,801	903	2,356	1.33	84.7
2080	projection	144,984	87,760–238,031	895	2,365	1.34	84.8
2081	projection	143,788	86,380–237,280	886	2,372	1.34	85.0
2082	projection	142,634	85,114–235,640	876	2,373	1.34	85.1
2083	projection	141,402	82,509–235,901	864	2,374	1.34	85.2
2084	projection	140,182	80,765–235,111	852	2,371	1.35	85.3
2085	projection	138,914	79,871–234,572	839	2,362	1.35	85.5
2086	projection	137,657	77,814–232,091	827	2,352	1.35	85.6
2087	projection	136,383	76,814–232,301	815	2,338	1.35	85.7
2088	projection	135,114	74,909–231,631	804	2,321	1.35	85.8
2089	projection	133,854	73,600–230,361	793	2,300	1.35	85.9
2090	projection	132,597	72,708–232,552	784	2,277	1.36	86.0
2091	projection	131,367	71,404–231,612	777	2,252	1.36	86.2
2092	projection	130,135	69,830–232,645	771	2,226	1.36	86.3
2093	projection	128,949	69,182–230,309	765	2,200	1.37	86.4
2094	projection	127,764	67,919–233,450	760	2,171	1.37	86.5
2095	projection	126,585	66,330–229,572	756	2,143	1.37	86.6
2096	projection	125,421	65,811–230,345	753	2,116	1.38	86.7
2097	projection	124,303	64,815–229,572	749	2,089	1.38	86.9
2098	projection	123,182	64,303–227,685	746	2,063	1.38	87.0
2099	projection	122,072	62,773–227,432	742	2,038	1.38	87.1
2100	projection	120,993	60,522–228,303	739	2,014	1.38	87.2

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

Curaçao: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	719	682
1	726	683
2	730	684
3	726	683
4	722	680
5	724	683
6	754	712
7	857	814
8	914	874
9	952	910
10	1,055	1,010
11	1,120	1,073
12	1,158	1,110
13	1,195	1,143
14	1,172	1,122
15	1,116	1,070
16	1,068	1,031
17	1,047	1,014
18	1,068	1,034
19	1,096	1,058
20	1,133	1,086
21	1,180	1,115
22	1,236	1,144
23	1,298	1,173
24	1,367	1,200
25	1,442	1,228
26	1,518	1,260
27	1,597	1,302
28	1,673	1,354
29	1,743	1,417
30	1,800	1,479
31	1,830	1,518
32	1,821	1,522
33	1,770	1,490
34	1,683	1,424
35	1,572	1,334
36	1,458	1,246
37	1,365	1,180
38	1,297	1,142
39	1,252	1,132
40	1,225	1,140
41	1,206	1,158
42	1,180	1,172
43	1,144	1,174
44	1,103	1,167
45	1,060	1,156
46	1,022	1,148
47	998	1,154
48	996	1,170
49	1,008	1,198
50	1,034	1,234
51	1,064	1,269
52	1,083	1,296
53	1,090	1,318
54	1,084	1,333
55	1,078	1,342
56	1,075	1,350
57	1,074	1,364
58	1,080	1,388
59	1,092	1,421
60	1,112	1,458
61	1,124	1,489
62	1,122	1,498
63	1,105	1,493
64	1,072	1,476
65	1,027	1,445
66	978	1,403
67	930	1,358
68	883	1,310
69	833	1,259
70	782	1,202
71	732	1,144
72	688	1,088
73	647	1,037
74	609	987
75	574	936
76	534	881
77	492	823
78	438	762
79	380	702
80	330	641
81	281	582
82	236	524
83	199	463
84	166	406
85	134	350
86	106	296
87	82	248
88	63	208
89	47	173
90	34	143
91	24	116
92	16	90
93	10	68
94	7	50
95	4	36
96	2	26
97	1	18
98	1	12
99	0	8
100+	0	12

CUW · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Curaçao, 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.

CUW · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Curaçao

Curaçao had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2019: 131,480 people aged 15–64, against 126,972 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

22 children

24 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 28 years: 2007–2034.

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

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

CUW · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Curaçao, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Curaçao gains 556 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 148 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 20 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 25,592 (2018), and a loss of 9,595 (2019).

In 2024, 80,020 people living in Curaçao had been born in another country, 43 of every 100 people there, against 28 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Curaçao

Of every 100 babies born in Curaçao in 2023, 5 had a mother under 20, 76 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 9 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
9 · 75 · 16

2023
5 · 76 · 19

2050 · projected
2 · 62 · 36

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

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 1,394
Average age when women have a baby: 30.0 years; 29.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 13; 71 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Curaçao by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	5	8	11	1	0	0
15–19	334	482	246	67	23	12
20–24	998	997	495	215	85	56
25–29	1,018	920	588	411	214	164
30–34	809	624	602	429	421	278
35–39	418	248	341	212	352	187
40–44	161	73	110	57	73	41
45–49	18	9	5	2	2	1
50–54	1	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	3,762	3,361	2,398	1,394	1,170	739

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

CUW · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Curaçao

At the end of 2025, Curaçao was hosting 6,903 people who had crossed a border into it, about 37 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad6,903
Curaçao nationals abroad8

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 200 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Curaçao living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

How the world's displacement is counted

CUW · of every 100 people

How people live in Curaçao

Of every 100 people in Curaçao in 2025, 60 lived in a city, 35 in a town or suburb and 5 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

CUW · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Curaçao went in school

Almost every adult in Curaçao went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 47 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 some primary 12 finished primary 38 finished lower secondary 28 finished upper secondary 19 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2055; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

CUW · cities · 2025

Cities in Curaçao

Curaçao had 1 city in 2025, home to 110,525 people.

Sapate110,525

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 Curaçao 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.