🇬🇾Guyana

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Population

836K

0.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.40

births/woman

Life Expectancy

70.3y

GDP / capita

$32.4K

Pop. Growth

0.59%

Net Migration

-5.1K

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 Guyana by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB40.5K(76.1%)

36×

🇸🇷Suriname4.7K(8.9%)

+93%

🇧🇷

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

Male406.8KTotal 836K429.2KFemale

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

19.1

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 States1.3K(2.4%)

+93%

🇨🇳China1.2K(2.2%)

+93%

🇬🇧United Kingdom586(1.1%)

+92%

🇨🇦Canada408(0.8%)

+92%

🇯🇲Jamaica302(0.6%)

+92%

🇧🇧Barbados273(0.5%)

+92%

🇱🇨St. Lucia222(0.4%)

+91%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Guyana diaspora lives

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

🇺🇸United States314.8K(67.8%)

+22%

🇨🇦Canada81.6K(17.6%)

−8%

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago15.7K(3.4%)

+66%

🇸🇷Suriname14.7K(3.2%)

+31%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB8.2K(1.8%)

−3%

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda7.1K(1.5%)

+16%

🇧🇧Barbados6.7K(1.4%)

+7%

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands2.9K(0.6%)

+44%

🇧🇷Brazil2.5K(0.5%)

+34%

🇱🇨St. Lucia2K(0.4%)

−10%

🇸🇽Sint Maarten (Dutch part)2K(0.4%)

+15%

🇧🇸Bahamas, The1.5K(0.3%)

+23%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024