1. PopulationVenezuela

   Venezuela: 8% fewer residents than in 2016

   30.8M people lived there in 2016 and 28.3M in 2023 (UN estimates). Separately, UNHCR counted 6.1M refugees from the country abroad in 2023; this is not a share of the population decline. UN medium variant: 31.1M in 2050, 28.3M in 2100.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Venezuela: once more foreign-born lived here than natives abroad; now 8.33M natives live abroad
• Venezuela: 77% are online, but only 26% have toilet waste that is safely treated
• Venezuela: the share going hungry jumped from under 2.5% to 24%, then fell again
• Venezuela: in 2020–2023 net migration was lower than all 12 UN projections assumed
• Venezuela: the UN's 2002 projection did not expect births this low even by 2050
• Venezuela: all 12 UN projections since 1998 expected more people than there are

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