World population/Puerto Rico
North America
Population of Puerto Rico
3,222,687
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#135
world rank
0.04%
of world population
-0.52%
yearly change
-16,585
people this year
19,121
births a year
35,224
deaths a year
How the figure for Puerto Rico is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Puerto Rico at 3,222,687 on 1 July 2026, and projects 3,206,102 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 Puerto Rico at number 135 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.04 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 19,121 births and 35,224 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.