World population/Belize
North America
Population of Belize
428,658
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#177
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+1.30%
yearly change
+5,562
people this year
7,471
births a year
2,171
deaths a year
How the figure for Belize is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Belize at 428,658 on 1 July 2026, and projects 434,220 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 Belize at number 177 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 7,471 births and 2,171 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.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.