World population/Dominican Republic
North America
Population of Dominican Republic
11,609,499
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#84
world rank
0.14%
of world population
+0.75%
yearly change
+86,438
people this year
196,929
births a year
74,576
deaths a year
How the figure for Dominican Republic is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Dominican Republic at 11,609,499 on 1 July 2026, and projects 11,695,937 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 Dominican Republic at number 84 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.14 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 196,929 births and 74,576 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.