World population/Guyana
South America
Population of Guyana
840,888
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#166
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+0.61%
yearly change
+5,138
people this year
16,120
births a year
6,423
deaths a year
How the figure for Guyana is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Guyana at 840,888 on 1 July 2026, and projects 846,026 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 Guyana at number 166 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 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 16,120 births and 6,423 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.