🇧🇿Belize

Belmopan

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Upper middle income

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Population

422.9K

1.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.02

births/woman

Life Expectancy

73.7y

GDP / capita

$7.9K

Pop. Growth

1.39%

Net Migration

360

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Belize by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇹Guatemala29.6K(44.3%)

+48%

🇸🇻El Salvador11.1K(16.6%)

+48%

🇭🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male213.3KTotal 422.9K209.6KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

28.1

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇺🇸United States5.1K(7.7%)

+48%

🇲🇽Mexico4.4K(6.6%)

+48%

🇨🇳China2.6K(3.8%)

+48%

🇨🇦Canada1K(1.5%)

+48%

🇮🇳India742(1.1%)

+48%

🇯🇲Jamaica621(0.9%)

+48%

🇬🇧United Kingdom512(0.8%)

+48%

🇩🇪Germany84(0.1%)

+45%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Belize diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Belize who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇲🇽Mexico3.2K(42.9%)

+39%

🇧🇴Bolivia1.1K(15.2%)

+45%

🇬🇹Guatemala1.1K(14.7%)

+36%

🇰🇾Cayman Islands428(5.8%)

+33%

🇭🇳Honduras379(5.1%)

+46%

🇸🇻El Salvador349(4.7%)

+7%

🇨🇱Chile252(3.4%)

+327%

🇨🇷Costa Rica202(2.7%)

+46%

🇵🇦Panama157(2.1%)

+112%

🇦🇺Australia80(1.1%)

+29%

🇧🇸Bahamas, The48(0.7%)

+17%

🇳🇮Nicaragua25(0.3%)

+9%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024