Belize's population, total was 422,924 in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 18.69% from 356,333 in 2015 (1.73% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 422,924 | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 390,812 | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 356,333 | 2015 |
| Highest | 422,924 | 2025 |
| Lowest | 91,318 | 1960 |
| Average since 2016 | 394,396 | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 91,318 | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Belize's population, total rose 1.4% on 2024 (from 417,072 to 422,924).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +2.5% and a typical year strayed about 0.7% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.6% in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 6,307 a year. A straight line explains 100% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 443,411 for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1,494, against 14,301 for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Belize had the 174th highest value of the 217 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Belize | 422,924 | 2025 |
| World | 8.22 billion | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 666.59 million | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 3.08 billion | 2025 |
Closest to Belize in the 2025 ranking
- Maldives — 171st of 217: 529,676
- Cabo Verde — 172nd of 217: 527,326
- Brunei Darussalam — 173rd of 217: 466,330
- Bahamas, The — 175th of 217: 403,033
- Iceland — 176th of 217: 392,404
- Vanuatu — 177th of 217: 335,169
What this measures
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Limitations: Current population estimates for developing countries that lack (i) reliable recent census data, and (ii) pre- and post-census estimates for countries with census data, are provided by the United Nations Population Division and other agencies. The cohort component method - a standard method for estimating and projecting population - requires fertility, mortality, and net migration data, often collected from sample surveys, which can be small or limited in coverage. Population estimates are from demographic modeling and so are susceptible to biases and errors from shortcomings in both the model and the data.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 66 values
| Year | Population, total |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 422,924 |
| 2024 | 417,072 |
| 2023 | 411,106 |
| 2022 | 402,733 |
| 2021 | 395,346 |
| 2020 | 390,812 |
| 2019 | 385,829 |
| 2018 | 380,226 |
| 2017 | 373,202 |
| 2016 | 364,705 |
| 2015 |
Population, total in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 94,209 (2025)
- Argentina — 45.85 million (2025)
- Aruba — 108,785 (2025)
- Bahamas, The — 403,033 (2025)
- Barbados — 282,623 (2025)
- Bolivia — 12.58 million (2025)
- Brazil — 212.81 million (2025)
- British Virgin Islands — 39,732 (2025)
- Cayman Islands — 75,844 (2025)
- Chile — 19.86 million (2025)
- Colombia — 53.43 million (2025)
- Costa Rica — 5.15 million (2025)
More health data for Belize
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 8.31% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 8.57% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 54,218 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 25.87% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 56,884 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 26.66% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 111,102 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 26.27% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 8.95% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, male (% of male population)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Belize's population, total?
- 422,924 in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is up 363.13% from 91,318 in 1960 (2.39% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 422,924 in 2025 and the lowest 91,318 in 1960.
- How does Belize rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.TOTL, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Sta… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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