World population/Argentina
South America
Population of Argentina
46,003,732
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#35
world rank
0.55%
of world population
+0.33%
yearly change
+149,611
people this year
510,178
births a year
361,465
deaths a year
How the figure for Argentina is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Argentina at 46,003,732 on 1 July 2026, and projects 46,153,343 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Argentina at number 35 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.55 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 510,178 births and 361,465 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.