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French Guiana population

French Guiana population now

320,158

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: 307,232–334,199.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 303,402

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 318,866; 95% range, 31 Dec: 307,232–334,199
Median age: 25.9
Aged 65+: 7.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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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

GUF · 1950–2100 · in brief

French Guiana in numbers

The UN counts 303,402 people in French Guiana in mid-2023, which makes it the 184th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 13.0 times its 1950 population of 23,396.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 775 thousand. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 77,570 to 6.3 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 26.8 in 1950 and 26.2 in 2023; the projection has 39.9 in 2100. 6.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 21.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Among countries it ranks 184th in 2023, 180th in 2050 and 169th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Martinique in 2029, Guadeloupe in 2034 and the Bahamas in 2043.

Population, mid-2023: 303,402
Rank by population, 2023: 184 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.71% · +5,096 people
Births, 2023: 7,707
Deaths, 2023: 1,502
Net migration, 2023: −1,091
Children per woman, 2023: 3.39
Median age, 2023: 26.2 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 77.0 years
In a city, 2025: 24 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 23,396
Projected, mid-2050: 471,917
Projected, mid-2100: 775,238

GUF · 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: French Guiana, 1950–2100

French Guiana: 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	23,248		812	526	4.91	47.7
1951	estimate	23,544		813	511	4.91	48.4
1952	estimate	23,850		814	501	4.91	49.0
1953	estimate	24,160		831	492	5.00	49.5
1954	estimate	24,508		853	484	5.13	50.1
1955	estimate	24,942		875	477	5.23	50.7
1956	estimate	25,932		907	475	5.25	51.5
1957	estimate	26,987		935	470	5.25	52.5
1958	estimate	28,095		956	464	5.20	53.6
1959	estimate	29,253		991	458	5.22	54.7
1960	estimate	30,450		1,024	452	5.22	55.8
1961	estimate	31,717		1,041	446	5.12	56.9
1962	estimate	33,031		1,078	442	5.10	57.9
1963	estimate	34,525		1,125	436	5.17	58.9
1964	estimate	36,102		1,192	432	5.29	59.7
1965	estimate	37,794		1,216	428	5.18	60.5
1966	estimate	39,568		1,237	425	5.04	61.3
1967	estimate	41,387		1,269	424	4.93	61.9
1968	estimate	43,088		1,308	425	4.86	62.4
1969	estimate	44,278		1,368	426	4.78	62.9
1970	estimate	45,578		1,437	429	4.72	63.3
1971	estimate	46,980		1,489	432	4.60	63.6
1972	estimate	48,458		1,523	434	4.42	64.0
1973	estimate	49,980		1,495	434	4.07	64.4
1974	estimate	51,485		1,476	434	3.78	64.7
1975	estimate	53,335		1,503	437	3.57	65.0
1976	estimate	55,591		1,522	445	3.42	65.3
1977	estimate	57,871		1,585	452	3.38	65.5
1978	estimate	60,205		1,658	456	3.37	66.0
1979	estimate	62,601		1,729	457	3.36	66.6
1980	estimate	65,075		1,803	458	3.35	67.1
1981	estimate	67,622		1,898	461	3.39	67.7
1982	estimate	70,263		1,999	464	3.43	68.1
1983	estimate	74,281		2,139	473	3.46	68.6
1984	estimate	78,855		2,245	481	3.41	69.0
1985	estimate	83,625		2,364	491	3.38	69.4
1986	estimate	88,578		2,515	503	3.38	69.7
1987	estimate	93,735		2,680	516	3.41	70.0
1988	estimate	99,084		2,869	529	3.46	70.4
1989	estimate	104,651		3,131	546	3.58	70.6
1990	estimate	110,479		3,428	566	3.74	70.8
1991	estimate	114,892		3,641	583	3.87	71.0
1992	estimate	119,070		3,783	598	3.89	71.2
1993	estimate	123,427		3,867	611	3.85	71.5
1994	estimate	127,866		3,948	622	3.82	71.7
1995	estimate	132,371		3,995	634	3.76	71.9
1996	estimate	136,895		4,055	647	3.71	72.1
1997	estimate	141,443		4,109	665	3.66	72.2
1998	estimate	146,003		4,309	678	3.74	72.5
1999	estimate	150,741		4,493	693	3.80	72.7
2000	estimate	156,735		4,890	714	3.96	73.0
2001	estimate	164,506		4,894	732	3.78	73.3
2002	estimate	172,554		5,043	764	3.72	73.5
2003	estimate	180,865		5,342	804	3.77	73.6
2004	estimate	189,318		5,143	832	3.47	73.8
2005	estimate	197,979		5,844	863	3.78	74.1
2006	estimate	206,915		6,175	882	3.82	74.6
2007	estimate	215,027		6,297	890	3.78	75.0
2008	estimate	223,192		6,115	890	3.57	75.4
2009	estimate	229,002		6,094	901	3.49	75.6
2010	estimate	232,406		6,064	915	3.43	75.8
2011	estimate	236,723		6,243	935	3.48	76.0
2012	estimate	242,317		6,581	954	3.62	76.2
2013	estimate	249,227		6,432	969	3.47	76.5
2014	estimate	257,255		6,593	991	3.47	76.7
2015	estimate	263,846		6,906	1,043	3.55	76.6
2016	estimate	268,879		7,274	1,102	3.64	76.7
2017	estimate	273,653		7,944	1,160	3.88	76.8
2018	estimate	278,636		7,914	1,181	3.79	77.2
2019	estimate	283,287		7,985	1,322	3.73	76.6
2020	estimate	287,849		8,046	1,266	3.66	77.5
2021	estimate	290,262		8,167	1,826	3.71	74.2
2022	estimate	295,769		7,652	1,452	3.44	76.8
2023	estimate	300,843		7,707	1,502	3.39	77.0
2024	estimate	305,961		7,642	1,503	3.34	77.2
2025	projection	311,084	307,403–314,353	7,594	1,523	3.29	77.4
2026	projection	316,247	307,792–323,817	7,560	1,545	3.25	77.5
2027	projection	321,496	307,232–334,199	7,549	1,570	3.21	77.7
2028	projection	326,950	305,859–346,118	7,558	1,597	3.17	77.9
2029	projection	332,630	304,214–359,307	7,585	1,628	3.13	78.1
2030	projection	338,583	302,462–373,836	7,625	1,662	3.09	78.3
2031	projection	344,881	301,370–387,629	7,683	1,700	3.06	78.4
2032	projection	351,205	299,337–404,029	7,755	1,739	3.03	78.6
2033	projection	357,588	296,837–420,591	7,821	1,781	3.00	78.8
2034	projection	363,969	294,272–439,771	7,889	1,825	2.97	79.0
2035	projection	370,404	290,378–458,479	7,951	1,871	2.93	79.1
2036	projection	376,828	287,619–478,193	8,013	1,918	2.90	79.3
2037	projection	383,301	283,657–500,421	8,074	1,967	2.87	79.5
2038	projection	389,828	279,980–522,388	8,132	2,018	2.84	79.7
2039	projection	396,339	275,697–546,489	8,193	2,068	2.82	79.8
2040	projection	402,873	270,515–566,866	8,251	2,121	2.79	80.0
2041	projection	409,464	265,213–590,540	8,312	2,176	2.77	80.2
2042	projection	415,992	261,653–617,005	8,374	2,231	2.74	80.3
2043	projection	422,519	255,032–644,356	8,430	2,287	2.72	80.5
2044	projection	429,111	248,921–673,082	8,472	2,343	2.69	80.7
2045	projection	435,739	244,123–705,022	8,522	2,399	2.67	80.8
2046	projection	442,312	236,953–741,521	8,569	2,455	2.65	81.0
2047	projection	448,928	230,855–769,159	8,616	2,511	2.63	81.2
2048	projection	455,498	224,632–803,152	8,656	2,566	2.61	81.3
2049	projection	462,055	219,378–842,354	8,697	2,623	2.59	81.5
2050	projection	468,639	212,447–872,783	8,742	2,679	2.57	81.7
2051	projection	475,194	207,238–905,979	8,787	2,732	2.55	81.8
2052	projection	481,703	203,882–953,257	8,827	2,786	2.54	82.0
2053	projection	488,180	198,570–989,721	8,875	2,838	2.52	82.1
2054	projection	494,755	0.2–1.0 million	8,923	2,890	2.50	82.3
2055	projection	501,345	0.2–1.1 million	8,962	2,941	2.49	82.4
2056	projection	507,881	0.2–1.1 million	9,010	2,992	2.47	82.6
2057	projection	514,460	0.2–1.2 million	9,056	3,039	2.46	82.7
2058	projection	521,006	0.2–1.2 million	9,103	3,088	2.44	82.9
2059	projection	527,606	0.2–1.3 million	9,138	3,133	2.42	83.0
2060	projection	534,167	0.2–1.3 million	9,167	3,179	2.40	83.2
2061	projection	540,697	0.2–1.4 million	9,205	3,224	2.39	83.3
2062	projection	547,310	0.2–1.4 million	9,248	3,266	2.38	83.4
2063	projection	553,872	0.2–1.5 million	9,282	3,306	2.36	83.6
2064	projection	560,449	0.1–1.6 million	9,306	3,347	2.35	83.7
2065	projection	566,973	0.1–1.6 million	9,339	3,388	2.33	83.9
2066	projection	573,500	0.1–1.7 million	9,376	3,426	2.32	84.0
2067	projection	580,025	0.1–1.8 million	9,397	3,466	2.31	84.1
2068	projection	586,499	0.1–1.9 million	9,415	3,503	2.30	84.3
2069	projection	592,933	0.1–1.9 million	9,431	3,538	2.29	84.4
2070	projection	599,512	0.1–2.0 million	9,464	3,580	2.28	84.6
2071	projection	605,988	0.1–2.0 million	9,481	3,621	2.27	84.7
2072	projection	612,371	0.1–2.1 million	9,498	3,663	2.25	84.8
2073	projection	618,779	0.1–2.2 million	9,512	3,706	2.24	84.9
2074	projection	625,183	0.1–2.3 million	9,514	3,745	2.23	85.0
2075	projection	631,496	0.1–2.4 million	9,526	3,785	2.22	85.2
2076	projection	637,881	0.1–2.5 million	9,536	3,827	2.21	85.3
2077	projection	644,256	0.1–2.6 million	9,546	3,869	2.19	85.4
2078	projection	650,495	0.1–2.7 million	9,555	3,911	2.18	85.5
2079	projection	656,674	0.1–2.8 million	9,561	3,954	2.17	85.7
2080	projection	662,875	0.1–2.9 million	9,565	3,995	2.16	85.8
2081	projection	669,089	0.1–3.0 million	9,568	4,042	2.15	85.9
2082	projection	675,204	0.1–3.2 million	9,574	4,089	2.14	86.0
2083	projection	681,316	0.1–3.3 million	9,585	4,146	2.13	86.2
2084	projection	687,413	0.1–3.4 million	9,590	4,202	2.12	86.3
2085	projection	693,350	0.1–3.6 million	9,595	4,259	2.11	86.4
2086	projection	699,305	0.1–3.7 million	9,592	4,326	2.10	86.5
2087	projection	705,162	0.1–3.9 million	9,583	4,397	2.09	86.6
2088	projection	710,906	0.1–3.9 million	9,589	4,474	2.08	86.8
2089	projection	716,666	0.1–4.2 million	9,592	4,554	2.07	86.9
2090	projection	722,353	0.1–4.4 million	9,591	4,640	2.06	87.0
2091	projection	727,921	0.1–4.6 million	9,587	4,732	2.05	87.1
2092	projection	733,315	0.1–4.8 million	9,579	4,829	2.04	87.2
2093	projection	738,681	0.1–4.9 million	9,570	4,922	2.03	87.3
2094	projection	743,767	0.1–5.2 million	9,571	5,021	2.03	87.4
2095	projection	748,820	0.1–5.4 million	9,581	5,118	2.02	87.6
2096	projection	753,758	0.1–5.6 million	9,582	5,219	2.02	87.7
2097	projection	758,834	0.1–5.9 million	9,585	5,314	2.01	87.8
2098	projection	763,682	0.1–6.1 million	9,588	5,423	2.01	87.9
2099	projection	768,402	0.1–6.2 million	9,584	5,525	2.00	88.0
2100	projection	772,966	0.1–6.3 million	9,577	5,615	1.99	88.1

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

French Guiana: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	3,807	3,694
1	3,807	3,698
2	3,823	3,712
3	3,504	3,393
4	3,196	3,118
5	3,228	3,149
6	3,324	3,175
7	3,276	3,280
8	3,096	3,299
9	2,994	3,134
10	2,987	3,046
11	3,040	2,997
12	2,994	3,011
13	3,080	3,209
14	3,110	3,184
15	3,034	3,056
16	3,060	3,018
17	3,095	3,013
18	3,092	3,062
19	3,030	3,004
20	2,990	2,942
21	2,866	2,731
22	2,609	2,586
23	2,399	2,628
24	2,257	2,405
25	2,194	2,294
26	2,050	2,306
27	1,867	2,161
28	1,775	2,046
29	1,657	2,031
30	1,626	2,105
31	1,622	2,120
32	1,663	2,106
33	1,749	2,139
34	1,798	2,042
35	1,914	2,140
36	1,939	2,246
37	1,869	2,176
38	1,838	2,108
39	1,834	2,142
40	1,847	2,278
41	1,827	2,252
42	1,752	2,198
43	1,805	2,176
44	1,770	2,066
45	1,820	2,029
46	1,816	2,011
47	1,537	1,844
48	1,466	1,708
49	1,476	1,644
50	1,538	1,688
51	1,534	1,713
52	1,434	1,715
53	1,420	1,778
54	1,426	1,706
55	1,502	1,668
56	1,493	1,644
57	1,301	1,516
58	1,236	1,464
59	1,252	1,442
60	1,306	1,428
61	1,280	1,370
62	1,192	1,304
63	1,148	1,203
64	1,098	1,076
65	1,102	1,051
66	1,048	1,019
67	894	1,014
68	754	949
69	714	807
70	746	786
71	743	724
72	637	602
73	578	580
74	546	581
75	474	554
76	406	506
77	336	445
78	326	416
79	308	375
80	258	319
81	236	294
82	203	268
83	163	236
84	144	190
85	115	171
86	95	172
87	76	130
88	72	92
89	57	94
90	36	78
91	29	58
92	26	46
93	20	40
94	14	36
95	9	26
96	5	14
97	3	8
98	2	5
99	1	4
100+	0	4

GUF · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

French Guiana, 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.

GUF · ages 15–64

Who does the work in French Guiana

In French Guiana the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 187,981 of them.

100 aged 15–64

50 children

11 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.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

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

GUF · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in French Guiana, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 French Guiana loses 1,342 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 0–4, at 714 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 100 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 4,347 (2004), and a loss of 4,369 (2020).

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in French Guiana

Of every 100 babies born in French Guiana in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 68 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 22 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 17 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 72 · 17

2023
10 · 68 · 22

2050 · projected
5 · 70 · 25

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: 7,707
Average age when women have a baby: 29.3 years; 28.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 53; 97 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in French Guiana by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	2	14	54	20	6	1
15–19	85	281	753	774	446	212
20–24	223	488	1,084	1,786	1,746	1,274
25–29	214	360	1,268	1,785	2,278	2,578
30–34	151	200	984	1,675	2,131	2,874
35–39	96	115	572	1,178	1,453	1,860
40–44	37	39	165	451	609	676
45–49	4	6	10	37	69	94
50–54	0	0	0	1	4	8
All babies	812	1,503	4,890	7,707	8,742	9,577

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

GUF · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in French Guiana

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from French Guiana at the end of 2025.

An empty row is not the same as a zero. These figures cover the people one agency works with, so a country it has no operation in has nothing to report here.

In 2025, 51 people from French Guiana asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

GUF · of every 100 people

How people live in French Guiana

Of every 100 people in French Guiana in 2025, 24 lived in a city, 49 in a town or suburb and 27 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

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

GUF · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in French Guiana went in school

Of every 100 adults in French Guiana in 2020, 15 never went to school and 45 finished upper secondary or went further.

15 never went to school 4 some primary 23 finished primary 13 finished lower secondary 28 finished upper secondary 17 studied after school

The young went further: 16.1 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 17.7 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 7.8 against 15).

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2080; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2095.

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

GUF · cities · 2025

Cities in French Guiana

French Guiana had 1 city in 2025, home to 74,720 people.

Cayenne74,720

How to read this: the one city here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

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 French Guiana 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.