World population/French Guiana
South America
Population of French Guiana
318,881
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#184
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+1.68%
yearly change
+5,354
people this year
7,560
births a year
1,547
deaths a year
How the figure for French Guiana is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of French Guiana at 318,881 on 1 July 2026, and projects 324,235 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 French Guiana at number 184 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 7,560 births and 1,547 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.