South America Population Pyramid 2024
Year
2024South America in 2024
As of 2024, South America counted 435,611,302 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 2014, the population was 405,812,377; it has grown by 7.3% since.
With a median age of 33.7 years, South America had a youth dependency ratio of 31.1 and an old-age dependency ratio of 15.6 per 100 people of working age. The near-vertical sides of the pyramid indicate a stationary age structure, with births roughly balancing the passage of cohorts into older age.
Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.
No World Bank data for this country.
No World Bank data for this country.
12,230,850 immigrants live in South America.
| Venezuela | 6,268,352 |
| Colombia | 1,317,258 |
| Paraguay | 587,559 |
| Bolivia | 561,026 |
| Peru | 516,754 |
21,233,109 people born in South America live in other countries.
| United States of America | 4,112,869 |
| Spain | 3,246,905 |
| Colombia | 2,951,953 |
| Peru | 1,719,519 |
| Argentina | 1,550,287 |





