Puerto Rico: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 2.23 million people, so the population is now 1.4 times as large.

The UN projects 19,100 births and 35,200 deaths in 2026, 16,100 more deaths than births.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 2014.

The median age is 46.2, which is 15.1 years above the world’s 31.1.

11% of the people are under 15 and 26% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

People aged 65 and over have outnumbered children under 15 since 2015.

Women have 0.9 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 5.2 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 82.3 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 60.4.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 2.5 million people, 22% fewer than now, with a median age of 54.7.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 81.7 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 22.9 more years for women and 18.6 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 40.3 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 66.6.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 996,000, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 394,000 to 2.92 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 223,000 international migrants lived here, 6.9% of the population.

In mid-2024, 1.95 million people from here lived in other countries.