🇵🇷Puerto Rico (US)

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Population

3.2M

0.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

0.92

births/woman

Life Expectancy

81.9y

GDP / capita

$40.6K

Pop. Growth

-0.55%

Net Migration

5.5K

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 Puerto Rico (US) by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States144.1K(67.1%)

−22%

🇩🇴Dominican Republic42.4K(19.7%)

−34%

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

Male1.5MTotal 3.2M1.7MFemale

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

14.6

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

🇨🇴Colombia3.7K(1.7%)

−20%

🇪🇸Spain2.4K(1.1%)

+0%

🇵🇪Peru1.9K(0.9%)

+214%

🇲🇽Mexico1.7K(0.8%)

−47%

🇨🇳China1.1K(0.5%)

−19%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB898(0.4%)

−58%

🇨🇷Costa Rica835(0.4%)

+52%

🇦🇷Argentina748(0.3%)

−45%

🇵🇦Panama532(0.2%)

−14%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Puerto Rico (US) diaspora lives

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

🇺🇸United States1.9M(98.8%)

+26%

🇩🇴Dominican Republic5.2K(0.3%)

−11%

🇬🇺Guam4.4K(0.2%)

+12%

🇻🇮Virgin Islands (U.S.)4.1K(0.2%)

+0%

🇭🇹Haiti1.6K(0.1%)

+14%

🇲🇽Mexico1.5K(0.1%)

+8%

🇵🇦Panama1.3K(0.1%)

+114%

🇲🇵Northern Mariana Islands925(0.0%)

−9%

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands673(0.0%)

+43%

🇨🇴Colombia606(0.0%)

+26%

🇵🇪Peru527(0.0%)

+227%

🇨🇷Costa Rica514(0.0%)

+46%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024