Countries in South America by population (2024)

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Updated on July 16, 2023 with the latest
July 2023-July 2024 estimates from the 2022 U.N. Revision
# Country (or dependency) Population
(2023)
Yearly
Change
Net
Change
Density
(P/Km²)
Land Area
(Km²)
Migrants
(net)
Fert.
Rate
Med.
Age
Urban
Pop %
World
Share
1 Brazil 216,422,446 0.52 % 1,108,948 26 8,358,140 6,000 1.6 34 88 % 2.69 %
2 Colombia 52,085,168 0.41 % 211,144 47 1,109,500 -175,051 1.7 32 81 % 0.65 %
3 Argentina 45,773,884 0.58 % 263,566 17 2,736,690 3,718 1.9 32 94 % 0.57 %
4 Peru 34,352,719 0.89 % 303,131 27 1,280,000 -61,442 2.1 29 79 % 0.43 %
5 Venezuela 28,838,499 1.90 % 536,803 33 882,050 321,106 2.2 28 N.A. 0.36 %
6 Chile 19,629,590 0.13 % 25,857 26 743,532 -71,205 1.5 36 85 % 0.24 %
7 Ecuador 18,190,484 1.05 % 189,484 73 248,360 -21,525 2.0 28 64 % 0.23 %
8 Bolivia 12,388,571 1.35 % 164,461 11 1,083,300 -3,000 2.5 24 69 % 0.15 %
9 Paraguay 6,861,524 1.19 % 80,780 17 397,300 -12,499 2.4 26 67 % 0.09 %
10 Uruguay 3,423,108 0.01 % 314 20 175,020 -1,500 1.5 36 99 % 0.04 %
11 Guyana 813,834 0.63 % 5,108 4 196,850 -3,900 2.3 26 27 % 0.01 %
12 Suriname 623,236 0.84 % 5,196 4 156,000 -1,000 2.3 28 63 % 0.01 %
13 French Guiana 312,155 2.49 % 7,598 4 82,200 1,200 3.4 24 90 % 0.00 %
14 Falkland Islands 3,791 0.29 % 11 0 12,170 0 1.6 40 62 % 0.00 %

Source: Worldometer (www.Worldometers.info)
Elaboration of data by United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2022 Revision. (Medium-fertility variant).