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

Paraguay population

Paraguay population now

7,115,221

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: 7.0–7.3 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 6,844,146

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 7.09528 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 7.0–7.3 million
Median age: 28.3
Aged 65+: 6.9%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2078

male female projection · one cell = 1,000 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

PRY · 1950–2100 · in brief

Paraguay in numbers

6,844,146 people lived in Paraguay in mid-2023: 0.08% of the world's people, and the 108th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 4.5 times its 1950 population of 1.5 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2078 at 9.3 million, then falling to 9.0 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 4.8 million to 17.2 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2085 on.

The median age was 16.9 in 1950 and 27.3 in 2023; the projection has 45.1 in 2100. 6.4% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 25.6% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2073 at 5.8 million.

By size it is the 108th country in 2023; the projection puts it 111th in 2050 and 107th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Hong Kong in 2029, Belarus in 2040 and Austria in 2052. It is overtaken by Nicaragua in 2026, the Republic of the Congo in 2032 and the Central African Republic in 2037.

Population, mid-2023: 6,844,146
Rank by population, 2023: 108 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.08%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +1.24% · +83,682 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 17
Land area, 2023: 396,012 km²
Births, 2023: 136,778
Deaths, 2023: 39,034
Net migration, 2023: −12,500
Children per woman, 2023: 2.42
Median age, 2023: 27.3 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 73.8 years
In a city, 2025: 35 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 1,504,345
Projected, mid-2050: 8,640,464
Projected, mid-2100: 9,047,989

PRY · 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. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Paraguay, 1950–2100

Paraguay: 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	1,487,827		66,919	17,579	6.49	58.0
1951	estimate	1,520,862		68,135	17,842	6.49	58.3
1952	estimate	1,555,024		69,344	18,202	6.50	58.4
1953	estimate	1,590,186		70,537	18,533	6.50	58.5
1954	estimate	1,626,408		71,739	18,838	6.51	58.6
1955	estimate	1,663,440		72,938	19,093	6.51	58.8
1956	estimate	1,701,132		74,181	19,323	6.51	59.0
1957	estimate	1,739,679		75,502	19,500	6.51	59.3
1958	estimate	1,779,287		76,858	19,647	6.51	59.6
1959	estimate	1,820,011		78,327	19,767	6.51	59.9
1960	estimate	1,861,917		79,901	19,892	6.50	60.2
1961	estimate	1,905,110		81,553	20,016	6.49	60.5
1962	estimate	1,949,678		83,241	20,161	6.47	60.8
1963	estimate	1,996,582		85,059	20,317	6.45	61.1
1964	estimate	2,047,236		86,431	20,749	6.42	61.4
1965	estimate	2,099,003		87,187	21,123	6.34	61.6
1966	estimate	2,151,350		87,430	21,426	6.23	61.8
1967	estimate	2,203,819		87,398	21,702	6.10	62.0
1968	estimate	2,256,168		87,530	21,953	5.97	62.2
1969	estimate	2,308,614		87,806	22,189	5.84	62.4
1970	estimate	2,361,369		88,329	22,425	5.72	62.5
1971	estimate	2,414,687		88,783	22,640	5.59	62.7
1972	estimate	2,470,387		89,427	22,805	5.46	62.9
1973	estimate	2,529,374		90,720	22,917	5.35	63.1
1974	estimate	2,592,831		92,476	23,417	5.27	63.2
1975	estimate	2,658,411		94,020	23,736	5.18	63.4
1976	estimate	2,724,884		96,068	24,097	5.12	63.6
1977	estimate	2,792,788		98,906	24,546	5.08	63.9
1978	estimate	2,862,959		101,696	25,002	5.04	64.1
1979	estimate	2,935,580		105,827	25,484	5.06	64.3
1980	estimate	3,012,355		110,444	25,877	5.10	64.5
1981	estimate	3,094,115		115,660	26,204	5.15	64.8
1982	estimate	3,181,093		119,364	26,444	5.13	65.1
1983	estimate	3,271,284		122,831	26,425	5.09	65.3
1984	estimate	3,364,851		126,231	26,293	5.04	65.6
1985	estimate	3,461,021		129,093	26,232	4.97	65.9
1986	estimate	3,560,320		131,990	26,213	4.93	66.2
1987	estimate	3,662,629		134,159	26,196	4.85	66.5
1988	estimate	3,767,149		136,595	26,246	4.77	66.7
1989	estimate	3,873,943		138,068	26,339	4.68	66.9
1990	estimate	3,981,662		138,982	26,118	4.57	67.3
1991	estimate	4,089,833		140,533	26,058	4.48	67.7
1992	estimate	4,198,895		141,542	26,100	4.40	68.0
1993	estimate	4,308,304		141,361	26,148	4.28	68.2
1994	estimate	4,417,088		141,894	26,235	4.20	68.5
1995	estimate	4,525,747		142,105	26,330	4.11	68.8
1996	estimate	4,633,864		142,063	26,440	4.01	69.0
1997	estimate	4,741,222		141,730	26,637	3.91	69.3
1998	estimate	4,847,602		140,982	26,860	3.80	69.5
1999	estimate	4,952,449		139,734	27,005	3.67	69.8
2000	estimate	5,053,820		137,136	27,158	3.51	70.0
2001	estimate	5,147,916		134,531	27,309	3.36	70.3
2002	estimate	5,227,462		132,104	27,449	3.23	70.5
2003	estimate	5,295,194		130,026	27,601	3.12	70.8
2004	estimate	5,357,679		129,795	27,902	3.05	71.0
2005	estimate	5,418,670		129,227	28,193	2.97	71.3
2006	estimate	5,477,524		128,277	28,469	2.89	71.6
2007	estimate	5,532,771		127,972	28,830	2.82	71.8
2008	estimate	5,586,002		129,050	29,228	2.79	72.0
2009	estimate	5,641,145		129,913	29,615	2.76	72.3
2010	estimate	5,701,328		129,358	29,902	2.69	72.5
2011	estimate	5,774,615		130,732	30,287	2.67	72.8
2012	estimate	5,854,637		133,029	30,525	2.66	73.1
2013	estimate	5,939,379		134,448	31,070	2.64	73.3
2014	estimate	6,025,511		137,388	31,808	2.65	73.4
2015	estimate	6,114,111		139,576	32,760	2.65	73.5
2016	estimate	6,204,095		140,526	33,723	2.62	73.5
2017	estimate	6,294,157		140,500	34,870	2.59	73.5
2018	estimate	6,383,164		140,351	35,440	2.56	73.6
2019	estimate	6,471,599		139,557	36,379	2.52	73.7
2020	estimate	6,558,517		138,917	40,249	2.50	72.7
2021	estimate	6,648,962		138,291	59,623	2.47	68.1
2022	estimate	6,719,402		137,617	42,987	2.44	72.3
2023	estimate	6,801,526		136,778	39,034	2.42	73.8
2024	estimate	6,886,766		136,695	39,474	2.42	74.0
2025	projection	6,971,540	6.9–7.0 million	135,786	40,287	2.40	74.1
2026	projection	7,054,615	7.0–7.1 million	134,692	41,123	2.37	74.2
2027	projection	7,135,944	7.0–7.3 million	133,752	41,979	2.35	74.4
2028	projection	7,215,404	7.1–7.4 million	132,847	42,829	2.33	74.5
2029	projection	7,293,644	7.1–7.5 million	132,003	43,708	2.31	74.6
2030	projection	7,370,167	7.1–7.6 million	131,254	44,621	2.29	74.8
2031	projection	7,445,068	7.2–7.7 million	130,380	45,580	2.27	74.9
2032	projection	7,518,212	7.2–7.9 million	129,862	46,537	2.26	75.0
2033	projection	7,590,234	7.2–8.0 million	129,392	47,501	2.24	75.2
2034	projection	7,660,682	7.3–8.1 million	128,959	48,531	2.22	75.3
2035	projection	7,729,563	7.3–8.2 million	128,570	49,554	2.21	75.4
2036	projection	7,797,476	7.3–8.3 million	128,184	50,562	2.19	75.6
2037	projection	7,864,287	7.3–8.5 million	127,739	51,636	2.17	75.7
2038	projection	7,929,659	7.4–8.6 million	127,407	52,725	2.16	75.9
2039	projection	7,994,071	7.4–8.7 million	127,127	53,812	2.14	76.0
2040	projection	8,056,907	7.4–8.8 million	126,982	54,894	2.13	76.2
2041	projection	8,118,236	7.4–9.0 million	126,914	56,014	2.12	76.3
2042	projection	8,178,567	7.4–9.1 million	126,843	57,154	2.11	76.4
2043	projection	8,238,077	7.4–9.2 million	126,628	58,306	2.09	76.6
2044	projection	8,295,936	7.4–9.3 million	126,383	59,480	2.08	76.7
2045	projection	8,352,727	7.4–9.4 million	126,120	60,625	2.07	76.8
2046	projection	8,408,332	7.4–9.6 million	125,868	61,793	2.06	77.0
2047	projection	8,463,176	7.4–9.7 million	125,460	62,941	2.05	77.1
2048	projection	8,515,744	7.4–9.8 million	125,006	64,034	2.04	77.2
2049	projection	8,566,944	7.4–9.9 million	124,517	65,140	2.03	77.4
2050	projection	8,616,483	7.4–10.0 million	124,008	66,214	2.02	77.5
2051	projection	8,664,445	7.4–10.2 million	123,482	67,300	2.01	77.7
2052	projection	8,711,228	7.4–10.3 million	122,775	68,355	2.00	77.8
2053	projection	8,756,456	7.4–10.4 million	121,977	69,380	1.99	78.0
2054	projection	8,799,813	7.4–10.6 million	121,271	70,498	1.99	78.1
2055	projection	8,841,696	7.4–10.7 million	120,462	71,537	1.98	78.3
2056	projection	8,881,747	7.3–10.8 million	119,540	72,619	1.97	78.4
2057	projection	8,920,208	7.3–11.0 million	118,552	73,724	1.96	78.5
2058	projection	8,956,830	7.3–11.1 million	117,569	74,812	1.95	78.7
2059	projection	8,991,956	7.3–11.3 million	116,796	75,899	1.95	78.8
2060	projection	9,024,031	7.2–11.4 million	115,874	77,021	1.94	79.0
2061	projection	9,053,976	7.2–11.6 million	115,134	78,194	1.93	79.1
2062	projection	9,082,305	7.2–11.7 million	114,478	79,422	1.93	79.3
2063	projection	9,109,306	7.1–11.8 million	113,787	80,619	1.92	79.4
2064	projection	9,134,149	7.1–11.9 million	113,107	81,886	1.91	79.5
2065	projection	9,156,576	7.0–12.1 million	112,382	83,134	1.91	79.7
2066	projection	9,176,666	7.0–12.2 million	111,695	84,380	1.90	79.8
2067	projection	9,195,263	6.9–12.4 million	110,930	85,595	1.89	80.0
2068	projection	9,211,392	6.9–12.5 million	110,239	86,824	1.89	80.1
2069	projection	9,226,069	6.8–12.6 million	109,653	88,042	1.88	80.3
2070	projection	9,239,350	6.8–12.8 million	109,250	89,311	1.88	80.4
2071	projection	9,250,979	6.7–12.9 million	108,700	90,436	1.87	80.5
2072	projection	9,260,687	6.7–13.0 million	108,097	91,608	1.87	80.7
2073	projection	9,269,077	6.6–13.2 million	107,561	92,781	1.86	80.8
2074	projection	9,275,792	6.5–13.3 million	107,049	93,828	1.86	80.9
2075	projection	9,280,822	6.5–13.4 million	106,448	94,831	1.85	81.1
2076	projection	9,284,459	6.4–13.5 million	105,854	95,684	1.85	81.2
2077	projection	9,286,369	6.4–13.7 million	105,411	96,502	1.85	81.3
2078	projection	9,287,242	6.3–13.9 million	104,871	97,246	1.85	81.5
2079	projection	9,287,035	6.2–14.0 million	104,219	97,953	1.84	81.6
2080	projection	9,285,468	6.2–14.1 million	103,483	98,499	1.84	81.7
2081	projection	9,282,883	6.1–14.3 million	102,820	99,006	1.83	81.8
2082	projection	9,278,737	6.0–14.4 million	102,204	99,494	1.83	82.0
2083	projection	9,273,975	6.0–14.5 million	101,684	99,815	1.83	82.1
2084	projection	9,268,402	5.9–14.7 million	100,975	100,103	1.82	82.2
2085	projection	9,262,278	5.8–14.8 million	100,247	100,356	1.82	82.4
2086	projection	9,254,548	5.8–15.0 million	99,527	100,546	1.82	82.5
2087	projection	9,245,816	5.7–15.1 million	98,808	100,691	1.82	82.6
2088	projection	9,236,924	5.6–15.3 million	98,042	100,873	1.81	82.8
2089	projection	9,227,193	5.6–15.5 million	97,291	101,014	1.81	82.9
2090	projection	9,215,732	5.5–15.7 million	96,551	101,120	1.81	83.0
2091	projection	9,203,903	5.4–15.9 million	95,830	101,254	1.80	83.1
2092	projection	9,191,090	5.4–16.0 million	95,190	101,422	1.80	83.3
2093	projection	9,177,787	5.3–16.2 million	94,420	101,579	1.80	83.4
2094	projection	9,163,596	5.2–16.3 million	93,654	101,786	1.79	83.5
2095	projection	9,148,505	5.1–16.5 million	93,033	102,081	1.79	83.6
2096	projection	9,132,721	5.0–16.6 million	92,401	102,385	1.79	83.8
2097	projection	9,115,774	5.0–16.8 million	91,728	102,764	1.79	83.9
2098	projection	9,097,778	4.9–16.9 million	91,047	103,087	1.78	84.0
2099	projection	9,078,989	4.8–17.1 million	90,474	103,368	1.78	84.1
2100	projection	9,058,714	4.8–17.2 million	89,950	103,743	1.78	84.2

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

Paraguay: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	68,064	65,037
1	68,228	65,198
2	68,356	65,294
3	68,536	65,444
4	68,842	65,739
5	69,086	65,985
6	69,268	66,178
7	69,449	66,368
8	69,489	66,408
9	69,348	66,264
10	68,922	65,857
11	67,929	64,922
12	66,429	63,506
13	65,108	62,258
14	63,918	61,136
15	62,668	59,963
16	61,998	59,359
17	61,280	58,726
18	60,054	57,617
19	59,106	56,774
20	58,665	56,424
21	58,311	56,152
22	57,787	55,710
23	57,541	55,553
24	58,000	56,050
25	58,810	56,884
26	59,658	57,788
27	60,204	58,408
28	60,320	58,600
29	60,219	58,592
30	59,944	58,436
31	59,550	58,152
32	59,033	57,736
33	58,636	57,406
34	58,152	56,963
35	57,268	56,147
36	56,415	55,376
37	55,593	54,612
38	54,412	53,488
39	53,066	52,197
40	51,611	50,793
41	49,992	49,240
42	48,266	47,611
43	46,434	45,887
44	44,576	44,117
45	42,357	41,984
46	39,970	39,674
47	37,852	37,636
48	36,160	36,032
49	34,774	34,732
50	33,560	33,618
51	32,614	32,795
52	31,715	32,013
53	30,859	31,266
54	30,188	30,730
55	29,596	30,304
56	28,938	29,848
57	28,224	29,390
58	27,536	28,982
59	26,870	28,596
60	26,132	28,140
61	25,212	27,484
62	24,061	26,578
63	22,727	25,450
64	21,226	24,082
65	19,694	22,604
66	18,377	21,254
67	17,251	20,020
68	16,136	18,824
69	15,012	17,651
70	13,939	16,511
71	12,912	15,425
72	11,927	14,380
73	10,983	13,376
74	10,076	12,410
75	9,192	11,480
76	8,526	10,751
77	7,866	10,051
78	6,968	9,133
79	6,085	8,245
80	5,332	7,515
81	4,662	6,839
82	4,047	6,157
83	3,482	5,456
84	2,951	4,714
85	2,444	3,947
86	2,005	3,278
87	1,640	2,766
88	1,314	2,334
89	1,021	1,934
90	770	1,570
91	568	1,252
92	414	984
93	304	773
94	226	608
95	168	472
96	122	358
97	85	262
98	56	184
99	36	122
100+	48	196

PRY · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Paraguay, 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.

PRY · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Paraguay

On the UN's projection, Paraguay will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2073: 5,828,540 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 4,438,410.

100 aged 15–64

44 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: 2040–2046.

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

PRY · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Paraguay, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Paraguay loses 11,200 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 1,878 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 200 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.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was -2,477 (1981); its biggest loss, 45,914 (2007).

In 2024, 180,837 people living in Paraguay had been born in another country, 3 of every 100 people there, against 5 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Paraguay

Of every 100 babies born in Paraguay in 2023, 15 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 14 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 12 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
12 · 68 · 20

2023
15 · 71 · 14

2050 · projected
14 · 70 · 16

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: 136,778
Average age when women have a baby: 27.7 years; 30.0 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 70; 114 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Paraguay by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	265	432	742	798	806	92
15–19	8,113	12,061	21,919	20,103	16,917	4,287
20–24	18,588	26,090	37,375	33,017	27,025	13,571
25–29	15,468	22,814	31,839	34,905	32,021	25,596
30–34	11,215	16,773	24,324	28,417	27,926	26,997
35–39	8,813	10,004	14,754	15,099	15,941	16,154
40–44	3,752	4,731	5,479	4,230	3,278	3,144
45–49	676	1,068	684	209	94	109
50–54	29	47	20	0	0	0
All babies	66,919	94,020	137,136	136,778	124,008	89,950

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

PRY · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Paraguay

Of the 70.3 years a baby born in Paraguay in 2021 could expect, about 60.9 would be lived in full health (95% range 60.2–61.7). That leaves 9.4 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

62.2 in full health, 11.0 not: 73.2 years

Men

59.7 in full health, 7.9 not: 67.6 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: 62.2 healthy years of 73.2. Men: 59.7 of 67.6. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 64.9.

PRY · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Paraguay

At the end of 2025, Paraguay was hosting 6,280 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.9 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad6,280
Paraguay nationals abroad2,560

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 200 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Paraguay living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 765 people asked for asylum in Paraguay for the first time; 877 people from Paraguay asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Paraguay whose claims were decided that year, 1 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

PRY · of every 100 people

How people live in Paraguay

Of every 100 people in Paraguay in 2025, 35 lived in a city, 26 in a town or suburb and 39 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 18.4 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

PRY · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Paraguay went in school

Of every 100 adults in Paraguay in 2020, 3 never went to school and 34 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 never went to school 23 some primary 28 finished primary 12 finished lower secondary 17 finished upper secondary 17 studied after school

The young went further: 1.1 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 5.8 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 1.1 against 4.3).

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 2080.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

PRY · cities · 2025

Cities in Paraguay

Paraguay had 9 cities in 2025, home to 2.5 million people. The largest, Asunción, holds 19 of every 100 people in Paraguay.

Asunción1,314,663
Ciudad del Este412,725
Encarnacion170,683
Coronel Oviedo112,027
Caaguazú109,926
Pedro Juan Caballero109,096
Concepción91,441
Villarrica77,048
Hernandarias71,283

How to read this: the 9 biggest cities 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 Paraguay 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.