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

Guyana population

Guyana population now

842,095

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: 791,826–892,960.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 826,353

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 840,890; 95% range, 31 Dec: 791,826–892,960
Median age: 27.5
Aged 65+: 7.2%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 200 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

GUY · 1950–2100 · in brief

Guyana in numbers

826,353 people lived in Guyana in mid-2023: 0.01% of the world's people, and the 165th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 2.0 times its 1950 population of 418 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2067 at 960 thousand, then falling to 889 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 336 thousand to 2.9 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2080; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 19.6 in 1950 and 26.6 in 2023; the projection has 44.4 in 2100. 6.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 24.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2056 at 636 thousand.

By size it is the 165th country in 2023; the projection puts it 166th in 2050 and 162nd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Réunion in 2051, Mauritius in 2065 and Estonia in 2080. It is overtaken by the Solomon Islands in 2025.

Population, mid-2023: 826,353
Rank by population, 2023: 165 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.57% · +4,716 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 3.9
Land area, 2023: 211,140 km²
Births, 2023: 16,764
Deaths, 2023: 6,049
Net migration, 2023: −6,161
Children per woman, 2023: 2.41
Median age, 2023: 26.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 70.2 years
In a city, 2025: 28 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 418,038
Projected, mid-2050: 940,608
Projected, mid-2100: 888,952

GUY · 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: Guyana, 1950–2100

Guyana: 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	412,752		18,137	7,771	5.83	49.2
1951	estimate	423,324		18,733	7,453	5.92	50.2
1952	estimate	434,877		19,341	7,186	5.99	51.3
1953	estimate	447,613		19,971	6,950	6.07	52.4
1954	estimate	461,496		20,624	6,787	6.15	53.3
1955	estimate	476,445		21,264	6,693	6.22	54.1
1956	estimate	492,282		21,890	6,523	6.27	55.2
1957	estimate	508,868		22,540	6,390	6.31	56.1
1958	estimate	526,134		23,083	6,437	6.31	56.5
1959	estimate	544,008		23,650	6,430	6.31	57.0
1960	estimate	562,125		24,305	6,438	6.33	57.5
1961	estimate	576,161		24,684	6,592	6.34	57.9
1962	estimate	588,975		24,897	6,553	6.33	58.3
1963	estimate	601,946		25,137	6,530	6.31	58.6
1964	estimate	615,128		25,241	6,513	6.23	59.0
1965	estimate	628,401		25,334	6,542	6.13	59.1
1966	estimate	641,855		25,429	6,566	6.02	59.3
1967	estimate	655,438		25,521	6,588	5.89	59.5
1968	estimate	669,184		25,663	6,628	5.75	59.7
1969	estimate	683,137		25,810	6,677	5.58	59.8
1970	estimate	697,310		25,969	6,736	5.41	60.0
1971	estimate	708,099		26,080	6,807	5.26	60.1
1972	estimate	717,225		26,070	6,850	5.08	60.1
1973	estimate	726,010		25,871	6,879	4.87	60.2
1974	estimate	734,265		25,478	6,890	4.64	60.3
1975	estimate	741,848		25,229	6,912	4.45	60.4
1976	estimate	748,938		25,019	6,935	4.28	60.5
1977	estimate	755,568		24,745	6,941	4.12	60.6
1978	estimate	761,740		24,495	6,956	3.97	60.6
1979	estimate	767,431		24,379	6,977	3.86	60.7
1980	estimate	772,693		24,306	7,007	3.77	60.8
1981	estimate	776,041		24,504	7,032	3.72	60.9
1982	estimate	776,866		24,674	7,030	3.68	61.0
1983	estimate	776,557		24,745	6,992	3.64	61.2
1984	estimate	775,225		24,422	6,955	3.54	61.3
1985	estimate	772,997		24,200	6,908	3.47	61.4
1986	estimate	769,957		23,781	6,841	3.38	61.5
1987	estimate	766,239		23,355	6,754	3.31	61.7
1988	estimate	762,002		22,859	6,671	3.23	61.9
1989	estimate	757,325		22,512	6,564	3.19	62.0
1990	estimate	752,405		22,376	6,460	3.18	62.3
1991	estimate	747,382		22,238	6,343	3.18	62.5
1992	estimate	748,340		22,233	6,243	3.19	62.8
1993	estimate	751,482		22,304	6,205	3.20	63.0
1994	estimate	754,447		22,431	6,247	3.23	63.0
1995	estimate	757,196		22,402	6,411	3.24	62.7
1996	estimate	759,579		22,187	6,418	3.23	62.7
1997	estimate	761,473		21,923	6,355	3.22	62.9
1998	estimate	763,016		21,442	6,150	3.18	63.4
1999	estimate	764,155		20,797	6,033	3.13	63.8
2000	estimate	764,811		20,062	5,935	3.06	64.1
2001	estimate	764,853		19,142	5,835	2.96	64.4
2002	estimate	764,102		18,147	5,929	2.84	64.2
2003	estimate	763,202		17,325	5,981	2.75	64.1
2004	estimate	763,001		16,789	6,021	2.68	64.2
2005	estimate	761,835		16,485	6,029	2.65	64.4
2006	estimate	759,993		16,485	5,959	2.66	64.8
2007	estimate	757,940		16,565	5,824	2.68	65.5
2008	estimate	755,781		16,623	5,831	2.70	65.7
2009	estimate	753,432		16,588	5,830	2.69	66.0
2010	estimate	750,756		16,527	5,876	2.68	66.2
2011	estimate	747,757		16,604	5,890	2.69	66.5
2012	estimate	744,549		16,656	6,023	2.70	66.4
2013	estimate	748,028		16,922	6,035	2.71	66.7
2014	estimate	752,015		17,050	5,907	2.69	67.3
2015	estimate	756,443		17,084	5,886	2.67	67.7
2016	estimate	761,119		17,052	5,883	2.63	68.1
2017	estimate	765,977		16,940	5,833	2.59	68.5
2018	estimate	770,980		16,809	5,863	2.55	68.8
2019	estimate	812,131		17,725	6,060	2.52	69.1
2020	estimate	803,199		17,163	6,856	2.49	67.8
2021	estimate	811,764		17,093	8,969	2.46	64.3
2022	estimate	819,200		17,047	6,006	2.44	69.9
2023	estimate	824,074		16,764	6,049	2.41	70.2
2024	estimate	828,632		16,525	6,214	2.40	70.3
2025	projection	833,541	816,048–849,013	16,301	6,313	2.37	70.5
2026	projection	838,431	804,097–870,433	16,120	6,416	2.35	70.6
2027	projection	843,349	791,826–892,960	15,935	6,517	2.33	70.7
2028	projection	848,690	778,096–916,860	15,768	6,618	2.30	70.8
2029	projection	853,625	761,579–943,468	15,594	6,722	2.28	71.0
2030	projection	858,463	752,944–969,580	15,448	6,826	2.25	71.1
2031	projection	863,612	737,184–996,794	15,316	6,933	2.23	71.2
2032	projection	868,549	0.7–1.0 million	15,209	7,036	2.21	71.4
2033	projection	873,921	0.7–1.1 million	15,135	7,141	2.20	71.5
2034	projection	878,772	0.7–1.1 million	15,049	7,244	2.18	71.6
2035	projection	883,676	0.7–1.1 million	14,997	7,349	2.17	71.8
2036	projection	888,195	0.7–1.1 million	14,937	7,454	2.15	71.9
2037	projection	892,464	0.7–1.2 million	14,872	7,556	2.13	72.0
2038	projection	896,847	0.7–1.2 million	14,853	7,660	2.12	72.2
2039	projection	901,190	0.7–1.2 million	14,837	7,759	2.11	72.3
2040	projection	905,452	0.7–1.2 million	14,796	7,858	2.10	72.4
2041	projection	909,561	0.6–1.3 million	14,756	7,953	2.09	72.6
2042	projection	913,893	0.6–1.3 million	14,683	8,053	2.07	72.7
2043	projection	917,734	0.6–1.3 million	14,618	8,148	2.06	72.8
2044	projection	921,436	0.6–1.3 million	14,529	8,239	2.05	73.0
2045	projection	924,807	0.6–1.4 million	14,417	8,335	2.03	73.1
2046	projection	927,899	0.6–1.4 million	14,305	8,418	2.02	73.2
2047	projection	931,060	0.6–1.4 million	14,195	8,501	2.01	73.4
2048	projection	933,913	0.6–1.4 million	14,067	8,585	2.00	73.5
2049	projection	936,754	0.6–1.5 million	13,951	8,666	1.99	73.6
2050	projection	939,377	0.6–1.5 million	13,840	8,752	1.98	73.7
2051	projection	941,838	0.6–1.5 million	13,711	8,823	1.97	73.9
2052	projection	943,651	0.6–1.6 million	13,568	8,887	1.96	74.0
2053	projection	945,776	0.6–1.6 million	13,445	8,951	1.95	74.2
2054	projection	947,971	0.6–1.6 million	13,311	9,021	1.94	74.3
2055	projection	949,688	0.6–1.7 million	13,185	9,093	1.94	74.4
2056	projection	951,067	0.5–1.7 million	13,046	9,153	1.93	74.5
2057	projection	952,041	0.5–1.7 million	12,916	9,214	1.92	74.7
2058	projection	953,403	0.5–1.7 million	12,798	9,278	1.92	74.8
2059	projection	954,672	0.5–1.8 million	12,678	9,338	1.91	74.9
2060	projection	956,198	0.5–1.8 million	12,580	9,396	1.90	75.1
2061	projection	957,452	0.5–1.8 million	12,497	9,453	1.90	75.2
2062	projection	958,392	0.5–1.8 million	12,404	9,518	1.89	75.3
2063	projection	959,263	0.5–1.9 million	12,317	9,577	1.89	75.5
2064	projection	959,727	0.5–1.9 million	12,213	9,632	1.88	75.6
2065	projection	959,976	0.5–2.0 million	12,124	9,692	1.88	75.8
2066	projection	960,105	0.5–2.0 million	12,027	9,755	1.87	75.9
2067	projection	960,238	0.5–2.0 million	11,945	9,826	1.87	76.0
2068	projection	960,206	0.5–2.0 million	11,860	9,895	1.86	76.2
2069	projection	960,088	0.5–2.1 million	11,781	9,964	1.86	76.3
2070	projection	959,389	0.5–2.1 million	11,674	10,035	1.85	76.4
2071	projection	958,856	0.4–2.1 million	11,590	10,111	1.85	76.6
2072	projection	958,002	0.4–2.2 million	11,512	10,195	1.85	76.7
2073	projection	956,896	0.4–2.2 million	11,421	10,277	1.84	76.8
2074	projection	955,701	0.4–2.2 million	11,312	10,369	1.84	77.0
2075	projection	954,659	0.4–2.3 million	11,219	10,462	1.83	77.1
2076	projection	953,461	0.4–2.3 million	11,113	10,556	1.83	77.2
2077	projection	952,005	0.4–2.4 million	11,022	10,642	1.83	77.4
2078	projection	950,494	0.4–2.4 million	10,916	10,727	1.82	77.5
2079	projection	948,740	0.4–2.5 million	10,822	10,809	1.82	77.6
2080	projection	946,942	0.4–2.5 million	10,723	10,880	1.81	77.8
2081	projection	944,814	0.4–2.5 million	10,631	10,955	1.81	77.9
2082	projection	942,975	0.4–2.5 million	10,550	11,017	1.81	78.0
2083	projection	940,698	0.4–2.5 million	10,448	11,069	1.81	78.2
2084	projection	938,703	0.4–2.6 million	10,368	11,109	1.81	78.3
2085	projection	936,348	0.4–2.6 million	10,271	11,155	1.80	78.4
2086	projection	933,722	0.4–2.6 million	10,173	11,189	1.80	78.6
2087	projection	930,967	0.4–2.6 million	10,077	11,225	1.80	78.7
2088	projection	928,399	0.4–2.7 million	9,983	11,255	1.79	78.8
2089	projection	925,623	0.4–2.7 million	9,904	11,272	1.79	79.0
2090	projection	922,649	0.4–2.7 million	9,813	11,287	1.79	79.1
2091	projection	919,868	0.4–2.8 million	9,745	11,303	1.79	79.2
2092	projection	917,065	0.4–2.8 million	9,669	11,310	1.79	79.4
2093	projection	914,039	0.4–2.8 million	9,598	11,321	1.79	79.5
2094	projection	911,021	0.3–2.8 million	9,528	11,331	1.79	79.6
2095	projection	907,760	0.3–2.8 million	9,456	11,337	1.79	79.8
2096	projection	904,560	0.3–2.8 million	9,378	11,344	1.78	79.9
2097	projection	901,209	0.3–2.8 million	9,303	11,350	1.78	80.0
2098	projection	898,070	0.3–2.8 million	9,228	11,356	1.78	80.2
2099	projection	894,426	0.3–2.8 million	9,152	11,365	1.78	80.3
2100	projection	890,788	0.3–2.9 million	9,077	11,379	1.78	80.4

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

Guyana: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	8,037	7,796
1	8,051	7,811
2	8,094	7,850
3	8,167	7,919
4	8,228	7,980
5	8,260	8,014
6	8,366	8,115
7	8,324	8,077
8	8,204	7,968
9	8,227	7,990
10	8,230	7,992
11	8,197	7,960
12	8,127	7,892
13	8,003	7,772
14	7,890	7,658
15	7,810	7,575
16	7,741	7,505
17	7,640	7,400
18	7,448	7,206
19	7,208	6,964
20	6,970	6,725
21	6,822	6,576
22	6,805	6,558
23	6,895	6,648
24	7,066	6,831
25	7,242	7,038
26	7,383	7,232
27	7,484	7,396
28	7,500	7,492
29	7,401	7,487
30	7,224	7,411
31	6,980	7,274
32	6,656	7,058
33	6,328	6,820
34	6,052	6,615
35	5,658	6,267
36	5,196	5,838
37	4,824	5,486
38	4,558	5,214
39	4,398	5,037
40	4,275	4,898
41	4,188	4,800
42	4,134	4,734
43	4,107	4,704
44	4,098	4,703
45	4,097	4,712
46	4,100	4,722
47	4,106	4,721
48	4,102	4,712
49	4,107	4,699
50	4,114	4,688
51	4,065	4,626
52	3,974	4,526
53	3,890	4,440
54	3,808	4,364
55	3,726	4,294
56	3,642	4,216
57	3,552	4,126
58	3,452	4,024
59	3,350	3,908
60	3,239	3,776
61	3,119	3,643
62	2,992	3,512
63	2,859	3,378
64	2,723	3,242
65	2,579	3,101
66	2,421	2,948
67	2,250	2,784
68	2,064	2,607
69	1,870	2,420
70	1,685	2,231
71	1,514	2,046
72	1,356	1,872
73	1,220	1,715
74	1,104	1,574
75	998	1,442
76	912	1,322
77	844	1,208
78	764	1,096
79	666	980
80	572	864
81	483	754
82	406	656
83	342	569
84	290	492
85	246	426
86	208	368
87	174	320
88	142	278
89	114	240
90	88	203
91	66	166
92	49	132
93	36	102
94	26	76
95	19	55
96	14	40
97	10	31
98	7	24
99	5	20
100+	7	49

GUY · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Guyana, 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.

GUY · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Guyana

On the UN's projection, Guyana will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2056: 635,766 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 530,496.

100 aged 15–64

46 children

10 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 7 years: 2051–2057.

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

GUY · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Guyana, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Guyana loses 4,367 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 798 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: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 30,213 (2018), and a loss of 20,930 (1990).

In 2024, 54,175 people living in Guyana had been born in another country, 7 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Guyana

Of every 100 babies born in Guyana in 2023, 15 had a mother under 20, 76 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 9 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 18 under 20 and 12 aged 35 or older.

1950
18 · 70 · 12

2023
15 · 76 · 9

2050 · projected
11 · 76 · 13

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

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 16,764
Average age when women have a baby: 27.0 years; 27.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 70; 163 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Guyana by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	161	117	148	34	9	2
15–19	3,161	5,115	3,851	2,467	1,528	351
20–24	5,688	9,333	6,155	5,068	3,455	1,400
25–29	4,191	5,426	4,767	4,710	3,850	2,678
30–34	2,837	2,975	2,993	2,913	3,212	2,891
35–39	1,573	1,639	1,585	1,119	1,245	1,277
40–44	463	549	500	400	485	434
45–49	61	73	62	52	53	43
50–54	2	2	1	1	3	1
All babies	18,137	25,229	20,062	16,764	13,840	9,077

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

GUY · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Guyana

A baby born in Guyana in 2021 could expect 66.1 years of life, 56.8 of them in full health (95% range 55.8–57.9). That leaves 9.3 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

58.7 in full health, 10.6 not: 69.3 years

Men

55.1 in full health, 7.9 not: 63.0 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: 58.7 healthy years of 69.3. Men: 55.1 of 63.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 59.1.

GUY · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Guyana

At the end of 2025, Guyana was hosting 23,465 people who had crossed a border into it, about 28 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad23,465
Guyana nationals abroad1,434

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 500 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Guyana living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 5 people asked for asylum in Guyana for the first time; 324 people from Guyana asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

GUY · of every 100 people

How people live in Guyana

Of every 100 people in Guyana in 2025, 28 lived in a city, 46 in a town or suburb and 26 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

7 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 17 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

GUY · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Guyana went in school

Of every 100 adults in Guyana in 2020, 2 never went to school and 54 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 4 some primary 14 finished primary 26 finished lower secondary 43 finished upper secondary 11 studied after school

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2040; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2055.

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

GUY · cities · 2025

Cities in Guyana

Guyana had 2 cities in 2025, home to 237,471 people.

Georgetown134,567
Paradise102,904

How to read this: the 2 largest cities 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 Guyana 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.