World population/Falkland Islands
South America
Population of Falkland Islands
3,490
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#234
world rank
0.00%
of world population
-0.12%
yearly change
-4
people this year
34
births a year
22
deaths a year
How the figure for Falkland Islands is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Falkland Islands at 3,490 on 1 July 2026, and projects 3,486 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Falkland Islands at number 234 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 34 births and 22 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.