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{{Infobox place demographics
|place=[[Paraguay]]
|image=File:Paraguay single age population pyramid 2020.png
|image_size =350
|size_of_population =6,109,644 (2022 census)<ref name=population>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/2023/08/31/paraguay-tiene-6109644-de-habitantes-segun-el-ultimo-censo-de-poblacion-y-viviendas/|title=Paraguay has 6,109,644 inhabitants, according to the last Census|date=August 31, 2023|website=ABC Color|language=ES}}</ref>
|caption = Population pyramid of Paraguay in 2020
|age_0–14_years = 24.3%
|age_15–64_years = 66.9%
|age_65_years = 8.8%
|growth = 0.89% (2022 census)|birth=16.32 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
|death = 4.87 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
|net_migration = -0.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)
|infant_mortality = 23.21 deaths/1,000 live births
|life = 78.37 years
|fertility = 2.4 children born/woman (2022 census)

|nation = [[Paraguayans|Paraguayan]]
 | major_ethnic = {{unbulleted list
|{{Tree list}}
* [[Multiracial people|Multiracial]] (N/D)
** [[Mestizo]] (N/D)
** [[Mulatto]] (N/D)
** Others (N/D)
{{tree list/end}}
}}
 | minor_ethnic = {{unbulleted list
|{{Tree list}}
* [[White Paraguayans|White]] (N/D)
** [[Spaniards|Spanish]] (N/D)
** [[Italian Paraguayans|Italian]] (N/D)
** [[German Paraguayans|German]] (N/D)
** Others (N/D)
* [[Indigenous peoples in Paraguay|Indigenous]] (2.29%)<ref name="indígena">{{cite web |access-date=2023-09-09 |title=Censo Indígena 2022 - INE |url=https://www.ine.gov.py/Publicaciones/Biblioteca/documento/233/censo_indigena2022.pdf |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Paraguay}}</ref>
** [[Guaraní people|Guaraní]] (0.91%)
** [[Nivaclé]] (0.29%)
** [[Enxet]] (0.28%)
** [[Pai Tavytera]] (0.26%)
** Others (0.55%)
* [[East Asian people|East Asian]] (N/D)
** [[Japanese Paraguayans|Japanese]] (N/D)
** Others (N/D)
* [[Afro-Paraguayans|African]] (0.13%)<ref>http://otramerica.com/comunidades/afroparaguayos-condenados-a-no-existir/720</ref>
{{tree list/end}}
}}

|official = [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Guarani language|Guarani]]
|spoken = [[Languages of Paraguay]]
}}

{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source:<ref>{{cite web|title=Evolución de la Población Total|url=http://www.dgeec.gov.py/Publicaciones/evoluciontotal.php|website=DGEEC|access-date=27 July 2017}}</ref>
|1950 | 1328452
|1962 | 1819103
|1972 | 2357955
|1982 | 3029830
|1992 | 4152588
|2002 | 5163198
|2012 | 6461041
|2022 | 6109644
}}

[[demography|Demographic]] features of the population of [[Paraguay]] include population density, [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

==Characteristics==
{{more citations needed|date=February 2021}}
{{Blockquote|''The Paraguay's predominant ancestry is European, which represents a large part of the population, mainly descendants of Spaniards and Italians (who have contributed to repopulating the country after the [[Paraguayan War|Triple Alliance War]]) but there are also a large number of people of German ancestry, due to the German Mennonites (majority in the western part of the territory). There are 17 Mennonite colonies, only in the Paraguayan Chaco. It is one of the Latin American countries with the least indigenous traits (due to the fact that the traditional Paraguayan population; the Spanish mixture of Guaraní, had been annihilated by the war in 1870, which is why the country had to repopulate by resorting to immigration, especially the Italian in that country.) Taking into account the high fertility, Paraguay registers a majority young population structure. Of every ten people, four are under the age of 15 (2,339,000) and the population aged 15 to 29 represents a quarter of the total population. According to the Census (ECLAC, 1998), the population of indigenous nature that year was 29,482 people, that is, about 0.7% of the national population. There is a low percentage of people with distinctively Amerindian features and the absence of people with African features. The majority of the population is made up of mestizos who are descendants of the original population, the Guarani, and Europeans.''|Paraguay Embassy in Germany<ref>{{cite web| url = https://embapar.de/paraguay-turistico/poblacion/| title = Paraguay population's ethnicity & data}}</ref>}}

[[Paraguay]]'s population is distributed unevenly through the country. The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within {{convert|160|km|mi}} of [[Asunción]], the capital and largest city, which borders on [[Argentina]] to the south and west. The [[Gran Chaco]] in the north-west, which accounts for about 60% of Paraguayan territory, is home to less than 2% of the population. The Paraguay government encouraged{{when|date=August 2017}} massive settlement of the vast Gran Chaco.

Ethnically, culturally, and socially, Paraguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in [[South America]]. About 75% of the people are [[mestizo]] (mixed Spanish and [[Guarani people|Guaraní]] Native American descent), 20% are Whites, and the rest are small minorities of Indigenous or Afro Paraguayan origin.<ref name="Lizcano">{{Cite journal| title=Composición Étnica de las Tres Áreas Culturales del Continente Americano al Comienzo del Siglo XXI |trans-title=Ethnic Composition of the Three Cultural Areas of the American Continent at the Beginning of the 21st Century |language=Spanish |author=Francisco Lizcano Fernández |journal=Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales |date=2005 |volume=12 |issue=38 |pages=185–232 |url=https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10503808}}</ref> Little trace is left of the original Guaraní culture except the language, which is spoken by 90% of the population. About 75% of all Paraguayans also speak Spanish. Guaraní and Spanish are official languages.

Paraguay has a history of foreign settlement, especially in the 20th century: [[Germany|Germans]] (the majority are [[Mennonites]]) with long-time Paraguayan dictator [[Alfredo Stroessner]] (President, 1954-1989) himself of German ancestry; [[Italians]] (around 40% of the total Paraguayan population is of full or partial Italian descent);<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/internacionales/italianos-en-el-paraguay-elegiran-representantes-1311493.html |title=Italianos en el Paraguay elegirán representantes |date=1 December 2014 |language=es |access-date=17 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331140511/http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/internacionales/italianos-en-el-paraguay-elegiran-representantes-1311493.html |archive-date=31 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ABC Color">{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.com.py/articulos/los-italianos-y-su-aporte-a-la-nacion-259396.html|title = Los italianos y su aporte a la nación - Articulos - ABC Color}}</ref><ref name="ABC Color2">{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/nacionalidad-italo-paraguaya-es-un-hecho-segun-embajador-italiano-1758782.html|title=Ya se puede sacar la nacionalidad italiana|access-date=29 May 2020|language=es}}</ref> Japanese with [[Okinawa]]ns; [[Korean people|Korean]]s; Chinese; [[Arab diaspora|Arab]]s, [[Ukrainians]]; [[Polish people|Poles]]; Southern Europeans; [[Jews]]; Brazilians; and [[Argentina|Argentines]] are among those who have settled in Paraguay. There are also an estimated 234,000 [[Afro-Paraguayans]], or 4% of the population.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/01/afro-latino-a-deeply-rooted-identity-among-u-s-hispanics/ | title = Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics}}</ref>

European and Middle Eastern immigrants began making their way to Paraguay in the decades following the [[Paraguayan War]] of 1864-1870 (from 1870 onward). Only 28,000 men and 200,000 women had survived the war, the reason why Paraguay had since then a high rate of illegitimate births. The government pursued a pro-immigration policy in an effort to increase population. Government records indicated that approximately 12,000 immigrants entered the port of Asunción between 1882 and 1907, of whom almost 9,000 came from Italy, Germany, France, and Spain. Migrants also arrived from neighboring Spanish American countries, especially [[Argentina]]. The immigrant ethnic groups kept their cultures and languages to some extent, especially Brazilians - known as "[[Brasiguayos]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://wais.stanford.edu/Brazil/brazil_braziliansinparaguay61501.html|title= BRAZIL: Brazilians in Paraguay|last= Hilton|first= Ronald|date= 2001-06-15 |language= en|access-date= 2017-01-19}}
</ref><ref>
{{Cite web
|url= http://www.everyculture.com/No-Sa/Paraguay.html
|title= Culture of Paraguay - history, people, clothing, traditions, women, beliefs, food, customs, family
|website= www.everyculture.com|language= en|access-date= 2017-01-19
}}
</ref>

Official records gave an imprecise sense of the number of Brazilians who came to the country. According to the 1982 census, 99,000 Brazilians resided in Paraguay. Most{{quantify|date=August 2017}} analysts discounted this figure, however, and contended that between 300,000 and 350,000 Brazilians lived in the eastern border region.

Analysts also rejected government figures on the number of immigrants from [[South Korea]], Hong Kong and [[Taiwan]]. The 1982 census reported that there were 2,700 Koreans in Paraguay, along with another 1,100 non-Japanese or non-Korean Asian immigrants. Virtually all Koreans and Chinese lived in [[Ciudad del Este]] or [[Asunción]] and played a major role in the importation and sale of electronic goods manufactured in Asia.

Paraguay became the site of radical and progressive colonies inspired by political thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A group of radical socialist [[Australian diaspora|Australians]] in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as [[New Australia|''Nueva (New) Australia'']] (1893 -1897); and [[Elisabeth Nietzsche]], a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, ''[[Nueva Germania]] (Neues Deutschland)'' (founded 1886) devoted to a hypothetical pure [[Aryan race|white]] [[Nordic race|"Nordic"]] society.

A 2022 census found that Paraguay's population shrank as a production of migration and having smaller families, as well as better data integrity, resulting in a loss of over one million.<ref name="econ">{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[The Economist]] |date=2023-10-06 |accessdate=2023-11-15 |language=en-GB |url=https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/10/26/over-a-million-paraguayans-disappear-in-the-latest-census |title=Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census |department=The Americas}}</ref>

==Population==
[[Image:Paraguay-demography.png|thumb|300px|right|Demographics of Paraguay, Data of [[Our World in Data]], year 2022; Number of inhabitants in thousands.]]
[[File:Paraguay population density.png|250px|thumb|Paraguay population density (people per km2)]]
According to {{UN_Population|source}} the total population was {{UN_Population|Paraguay}} in {{UN_Population|Year}}, compared to only 1,473,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 33.5%, 61.4% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 5.1% was 65 years or older
.<ref name="WPP 2010">{{Cite web|url=http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506065230/http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm|url-status=dead|title=World Population Prospects - Population Division - United Nations|archivedate=6 May 2011|website=esa.un.org}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
!
! width="70pt"|Total population (x 1000)
! width="70pt"|Proportion aged 0–14 (%)
! width="70pt"|Proportion aged 15–64 (%)
! width="70pt"|Proportion aged 65+ (%)
|-
| 1950
|1 473||47.0||50.1||2.9
|-
| 1955
|1 674||47.5||49.5||3.0
|-
| 1960
|1 906||47.8||49.0||3.2
|-
| 1965
|2 176||47.5||49.2||3.3
|-
| 1970
|2 483||46.1||50.4||3.5
|-
| 1975
|2 802||44.1||52.3||3.6
|-
| 1980
|3 195||42.5||53.8||3.8
|-
| 1985
|3 698||41.6||54.5||3.9
|-
| 1990
|4 244||41.4||54.6||4.0
|-
| 1995
|4 795||40.3||55.4||4.3
|-
| 2000
|5 323||38.5||57.2||4.4
|-
| 2005
|5 824||35.5||59.8||4.7
|-
| 2010
|6 248||32.9||61.8||5.2
|-
| 2015
|6 689||30.4||63.7||5.9
|-
| 2020
|7 133||28.9||64.3||6.8
|}

=== Structure of the population ===

{{Hidden begin 
|title= Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2013) (Projections based on the 2002 Population Census.): <ref>{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook |website=[[United Nations Statistics Division]]}}{{nonspecific|date=May 2022}}</ref>
|titlestyle = background:#EEBC35;
}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 3 426 508
| align="right" | 3 356 867
| align="right" | 6 783 374
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 377 989
| align="right" | 363 561
| align="right" | 741 550
| align="right" | 10.93
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 372 142
| align="right" | 358 751
| align="right" | 730 893
| align="right" | 10.77
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 364 020
| align="right" | 351 350
| align="right" | 715 369
| align="right" | 10.55
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 351 038
| align="right" | 339 645
| align="right" | 690 683
| align="right" | 10.18
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 331 748
| align="right" | 322 813
| align="right" | 654 561
| align="right" | 9.65
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 303 291
| align="right" | 297 128
| align="right" | 600 419
| align="right" | 8.85
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 257 335
| align="right" | 252 770
| align="right" | 510 104
| align="right" | 7.52
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 203 351
| align="right" | 200 858
| align="right" | 404 209
| align="right" | 5.96
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 173 976
| align="right" | 173 202
| align="right" | 347 177
| align="right" | 5.12
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 160 044
| align="right" | 158 383
| align="right" | 318 427
| align="right" | 4.69
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 140 818
| align="right" | 137 891
| align="right" | 278 709
| align="right" | 4.11
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 120 438
| align="right" | 116 493
| align="right" | 236 931
| align="right" | 3.49
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 95 424
| align="right" | 92 423
| align="right" | 187 848
| align="right" | 2.77
|-
| align="right" | 65–69
| align="right" | 67 623
| align="right" | 67 777
| align="right" | 135 401
| align="right" | 2.00
|-
| align="right" | 70–74
| align="right" | 47 778
| align="right" | 50 653
| align="right" | 98 431
| align="right" | 1.45
|-
| align="right" | 75–79
| align="right" | 31 694
| align="right" | 36 085
| align="right" | 67 779
| align="right" | 1.00
|-
| align="right" | 80+
| align="right" | 27 800
| align="right" | 37 082
| align="right" | 64 882
| align="right" | 0.96
|-
! width="50"|Age group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 1 114 151
| align="right" | 1 073 662
| align="right" | 2 187 813
| align="right" | 32.25
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 2 312 357
| align="right" | 2 091 608
| align="right" | 4 403 965
| align="right" | 64.92
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 174 895
| align="right" | 191 597
| align="right" | 366 492
| align="right" | 5.40
|-
|}
{{Hidden end}}

{{Hidden begin 
|title= Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2021) (Estimates or projections considering also the results of the 2012 Population Census.): <ref>{{Cite web |title=UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/#statistics |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=unstats.un.org}}</ref>
|titlestyle = background:#EEBC35;
}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 3 702 281
| align="right" | 3 650 758 
| align="right" | 7 353 038
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 360 793
| align="right" | 346 324 
| align="right" | 707 118
| align="right" | 9.62
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 357 301
| align="right" | 343 724
| align="right" | 701 025
| align="right" | 9.53
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 352 757
| align="right" | 340 126
| align="right" | 692 883
| align="right" | 9.42
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 344 522
| align="right" | 332 510
| align="right" | 677 032
| align="right" | 9.21
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 334 496
| align="right" | 322 993
| align="right" | 657 489
| align="right" | 8.94
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 318 925
| align="right" | 309 559
| align="right" | 628 484
| align="right" | 8.55
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 300 116
| align="right" | 293 132
| align="right" | 593 247 
| align="right" | 8.07
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 266 102
| align="right" | 262 734 
| align="right" | 528 836
| align="right" | 7.19
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 214 813
| align="right" | 217 042
| align="right" | 431 855
| align="right" | 5.87
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 185 967
| align="right" | 188 348
| align="right" | 374 315
| align="right" | 5.09
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 164 693
| align="right" | 166 184
| align="right" | 330 877
| align="right" | 4.50
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 141 237
| align="right" | 142 195
| align="right" | 283 432 
| align="right" | 3.85
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 120 322
| align="right" | 119 145
| align="right" | 239 467
| align="right" | 3.26
|-
| align="right" | 65-69
| align="right" | 94 450
| align="right" | 94 556 
| align="right" | 189 006
| align="right" | 2.57
|-
| align="right" | 70-74
| align="right" | 63 855
| align="right" | 66 647
| align="right" | 130 502
| align="right" | 1.77
|-
| align="right" | 75-79
| align="right" | 41 070
| align="right" | 46 120 
| align="right" | 87 191
| align="right" | 1.19
|-
| align="right" | 80+
| align="right" | 40 863
| align="right" | 59 417
| align="right" | 100 280
| align="right" | 1.36
|-
! width="50"|Age group 
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 1 070 851
| align="right" | 1 030 174
| align="right" | 2 101 025
| align="right" | 28.57
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 2 391 192
| align="right" | 2 353 844
| align="right" | 4 745 036
| align="right" | 64.53
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 240 238
| align="right" | 266 740
| align="right" | 506 978
| align="right" | 6.89
|-
|}
{{Hidden end}}

==Vital statistics==
Registration of vital events in [[Paraguay]] are not complete. The Population Department of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.
<ref name="WPP 2010"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! rowspan=2|Period
! colspan=3|per year
! colspan=3|per 1000
! rowspan=2|total fertility rate (number of children per woman)
! rowspan=2|infant mortality rate per 1000 births
! colspan=3|Life expectancy
|-
! live births !! deaths !! natural change
! crude birth rate !! crude death rate !! natural change
! total !! males !! females
|-
| 1950–1955 || 70,000|| 14,000|| 56,000||44.3||8.9||35.4||6.50||73||62.6||60.5||64.6
|-
| 1955–1960 || 76,000|| 15,000|| 61,000||42.7||8.6||34.1||6.50||70||63.2||61.1||65.1
|-
| 1960–1965 || 84,000|| 16,000|| 68,000||41.3||8.0||33.3||6.45||62||64.3||62.3||66.3
|-
| 1965–1970 || 92,000|| 18,000|| 74,000||39.5||7.6||31.8||6.15||59||65.0||63.0||66.9
|-
| 1970–1975 || 94,000|| 19,000|| 75,000||35.6||7.1||28.6||5.35||53||65.9||63.7||68.0
|-
| 1975–1980 || 108,000|| 21,000|| 87,000||36.1||6.9||29.2||5.20||51||66.5||64.3||68.7
|-
| 1980–1985 || 129,000|| 24,000|| 105,000||37.3||6.8||30.4||5.20||49||67.0||64.9||69.3
|-
| 1985–1990 || 139,000|| 26,000|| 113,000||34.9||6.6||28.3||4.77||47||67.6||65.4||69.9
|-
| 1990–1995 || 145,000|| 28,000|| 117,000||32.0||6.2||25.8||4.31||43||68.5||66.3||70.8
|-
| 1995–2000 || 148,000|| 30,000|| 118,000||29.3||5.9||23.3||3.88||39||69.4||67.2||71.7
|-
| 2000–2005 || 151,000|| 32,000|| 119,000||25.1||5.4||19.7||3.24||36||70.7||68.7||72.9
|-
| 2005–2010 || 153,000|| 34,000|| 119,000||23.4||5.4||18.0||2.89||32||71.7||69.7||73.9
|-
| 2010–2015 || 161,000|| 38,000|| 123,000||21.7||5.4||16.3||2.60||30||72.2||70.0||74.5
|-
| 2015–2020 || 165,000|| 43,000|| 122,000||20.7||5.5||15.2||2.45||28||72.7||70.4||75.1
|-
| 2020–2025 ||||||||19.4||5.7||13.7||2.33||||||||
|-
| 2025–2030 ||||||||18.0||6.0||12.0||2.23||||||||
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===Estimated births and deaths===
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! width="70"|Year<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/vitstats/serATab3.pdf |title=Live births, deaths, and infant deaths, latest available year (2002–2016) |date=2 January 2018 |website=[[United Nations Statistics Division]]}}</ref>
! width="70"|Population
! width="70"|Live births
! width="70"|Deaths
! width="70"|Natural increase
! width="70"|Crude birth rate
! width="70"|Crude death rate
! width="70"|Rate of natural increase
! width="70"|TFR
|-
| align="right" | 2009
| align="right" | 6,168,757
| align="right" | 103,309
| align="right" | 18,758
| align="right" | 84,551
| align="right" | 16.7
| align="right" | 3.0
| align="right" | 13.7
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2010
| align="right" | 6,265,877
| align="right" | 100,584
| align="right" | 21,281
| align="right" | 79,303
| align="right" | 16.1
| align="right" | 3.4
| align="right" | 12.7
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2011
| align="right" | 6,363,276
| align="right" | 111,945
| align="right" | 22,652
| align="right" | 89,293
| align="right" | 17.6
| align="right" | 3.6
| align="right" | 14.0
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2012
| align="right" | 6,461,041
| align="right" | 118,549
| align="right" | 22,807
| align="right" | 95,752
| align="right" | 18.3
| align="right" | 3.5
| align="right" | 14.8
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2013
| align="right" | 6,559,027
| align="right" | 114,619
| align="right" | 24,193
| align="right" | 90,426
| align="right" | 17.5
| align="right" | 3.7
| align="right" | 13.8
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2014
| align="right" | 6,657,232
| align="right" | 116,592
| align="right" | 22,625
| align="right" | 93,967
| align="right" | 17.5
| align="right" | 3.4
| align="right" | 14.1
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2015
| align="right" | 6,755,756
| align="right" | 132,241
| align="right" | 24,885
| align="right" | 107,356
| align="right" | 19.6
| align="right" | 3.7
| align="right" | 15.9
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2016
| align="right" | 6,854,536
| align="right" | 128,117
| align="right" | 27,243
| align="right" | 100,874
| align="right" | 18.7
| align="right" | 4.0
| align="right" | 14.7
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2017
| align="right" | 6,953,646
| align="right" | 129,903
| align="right" | 26,404
| align="right" | 103,499
| align="right" | 18.7
| align="right" | 3.8
| align="right" | 14.9
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2018
| align="right" | 7,052,983
| align="right" | 123,187
| align="right" | 29,139
| align="right" | 94,048
| align="right" | 17.5
| align="right" | 4.1
| align="right" | 13.4
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2019
| align="right" | 7,152,703
| align="right" | 117,347
| align="right" | 32,362
| align="right" | 84,985
| align="right" | 16.4
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 11.9
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Proyecciones de población nacional, áreas urbana y rural, por sexo y edad, PARAGUAY 2020 |url=https://www.ine.gov.py/Publicaciones/Biblioteca/documento/9017_Paraguay_2020.pdf |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadistica |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref>
| align="right" | 7,252,672
| align="right" | 95,649
| align="right" | 36,466
| align="right" | 59,183
| align="right" | 13.2
| align="right" | 5.0
| align="right" | 8.2
| align="right" | 2.41
|-
| align="right" | 2021<ref>{{cite web |title=Proyecciones de población nacional, áreas urbana y rural, por sexo y edad, PARAGUAY 2021 |url=https://www.ine.gov.py/Publicaciones/Biblioteca/documento/9017_Paraguay_2020.pdf |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadistica |access-date=2 June 2021}}</ref>
| align="right" | 7,353,038
| align="right" | 112,966
| align="right" | 50,898
| align="right" | 63,314
| align="right" | 15.4
| align="right" | 6.9
| align="right" | 8.5
| align="right" | 
|-
| align="right" | 2022 (c)
| align="right" | 6,109,644<ref>{{cite web |title=Resultados preliminares del Censo 2022 |url=https://www.ine.gov.py/censo2022/documentos/Revista_Censo%202022.pdf |website=Insitituto Nacional de Estadística de Paraguay |access-date=1 September 2023 |archive-date=31 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831184005/https://www.ine.gov.py/censo2022/documentos/Revista_Censo%202022.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| align="right" | 111,992
| align="right" | 38,356
| align="right" | 73,636
| align="right" | 18.3
| align="right" | 6.4
| align="right" | 11.9
| align="right" | 
|-
|}
(c) = 2022 census preliminary results.

*Deaths from January – April 2022 = {{increasenegative}} 15,829
*Deaths from January – April 2023 = {{decreasepositive}} 11,950 <ref>{{cite journal |title=Excess mortality using raw death counts |url=https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid#excess-mortality-using-raw-death-counts |journal=Our World in Data |date=5 March 2020 |access-date=23 January 2023|last1=Ritchie |first1=Hannah |last2=Mathieu |first2=Edouard |last3=Rodés-Guirao |first3=Lucas |last4=Appel |first4=Cameron |last5=Giattino |first5=Charlie |last6=Ortiz-Ospina |first6=Esteban |last7=Hasell |first7=Joe |last8=MacDonald |first8=Bobbie |last9=Beltekian |first9=Diana |last10=Roser |first10=Max }}</ref>

==Total fertility rate==
<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cepep.org.py/archivos/ENDSSR%202008_1.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 July 2014 |archive-date=1 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701235145/http://www.cepep.org.py/archivos/ENDSSR%202008_1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Total Fertility Rate (Wanted Fertility Rate):
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="70"|Year
! width="90pt"| TFR (Total)
|-
| align="right" | 1990
| align="right" | 4.6
|-
| align="right" | 1995/96
| align="right" | 4.3
|-
| align="right" | 1998
| align="right" | 4.3
|-
| align="right" | 2004
| align="right" | 2.9
|-
| align="right" | 2008
| align="right" | 2,5 (2,2)
|-
|}

==Ethnic groups==
{{bar box
|title=Ethnic groups of Paraguay <ref name="Lizcano"/>
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|left1=Ethnic groups
|right1=percent
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{{bar percent|[[Mestizo]]|Orange|75}}
{{bar percent|[[White Paraguayans|White]]|Blue|20}}
{{bar percent|[[Afro-Paraguayans]]|Green|0.13}}
{{bar percent|[[Indigenous peoples in Paraguay|Indigenous]]|Blue|1.7}}
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}}

==Religions==
{{main|Religion in Paraguay}}
{{bar box
|title=Religions of Paraguay <ref name="Lizcano"/>
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|left1=Religions
|right1=percent
|float=left
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{{bar percent|[[Catholic Church in Paraguay|Roman Catholic]]|Blue| 89.6}}
{{bar percent|[[Protestant]] |Orange|6.2}}
{{bar percent| Other or Unspecified |Green|1.9}}
{{bar percent| Other Christian|Yellow|1.1}}
{{bar percent|None |Orange| 1.1}}
}}

==Languages==
{{main|Languages of Paraguay}}
{{bar box
|title=Languages of Paraguay
|titlebar=#ddd
|left1=Languages
|right1=percent
|float=left
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{{bar percent|[[Guaraní language|Guaraní]]  |Orange|90}}
{{bar percent|[[Paraguayan Spanish|Spanish]]|Blue| 87}}
}}

== CIA World Factbook demographic statistics ==
The following demographic statistics are from the [[CIA World Factbook]], unless otherwise indicated.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/paraguay/| title = The World Factbook – Paraguay| date = 8 March 2022}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.indexmundi.com/paraguay/demographics_profile.html/| title = IndexMundi| access-date = 25 December 2022| archive-date = 29 November 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221129161655/https://www.indexmundi.com/paraguay/demographics_profile.html| url-status = dead}}</ref>

===Age structure===
* 0–14 years: 23.41% (male 857,303/female 826,470)
* 15–24 years: 17.71% (male 640,400/female 633,525)
* 25–54 years: 42.63% (male 1,532,692/female 1,532,851)
* 55–64 years: 8.37% (male 306,100/female 295,890)
* 65 years and over: 7.88% (male 267,351/female 299,103) (2020 est.)

===Dependency ratios===
*total dependency ratio: 55.5
* youth dependency ratio: 49.9
* elderly dependency ratio: 10.6
* potential support ratio: 9.4 (2020 est.)

===Median age===
* total: 29.7 years
* male: 29.5 years
* female: 29.9 years (2020 est.)

===Population growth rate===
* 1.15% (2021 est.)

===Sex ratio===
* at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
* 0–14 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
* 15–24 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
* 25–54 years: 1 male(s)/female
* 55–64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
* 65 years and over: 0.89 male(s)/female
* total population: 1 male(s)/female (2020 est.)

===HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate===
0.3% (2020 est.)

===HIV/AIDS – people living with HIV/AIDS===
19,000 (2020 est.)

===HIV/AIDS – deaths===
<500 (2020 est.)

===Literacy===
* definition: age 15 and over can read and write
* total population: 94%
* male: 94.5%
* female: 93.5% (2018 est.)

==References==
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