This is a list of South American countries and dependencies by populationinSouth America, total projected population from the United Nations[1] and the latest official figure.
South America population by country[1]
| Country / dependency | % total | South America population[1] |
% change |
Official figure |
Official date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brazil |
49.2% | 216,422,446 | 0.5% | 216,284,269 | 1 Jul 2023[2] |
| 2 |  Colombia |
11.8% | 52,085,168 | 0.4% | 52,215,503 | 17 Mar 2023[3] |
| 3 |  Argentina |
10.4% | 45,773,884 | 0.6% | 46,044,703 | 18 May 2022[4] |
| 4 |  Peru |
7.8% | 34,352,719 | 0.9% | 33,725,844 | 30 Jun 2023[5] |
| 5 |  Venezuela |
6.6% | 28,838,499 | 1.9% | 32,219,500 | 30 Jun 2019[6] |
| 6 |  Chile |
4.5% | 19,629,590 | 0.1% | 19,960,889 | 30 Jun 2023[7] |
| 7 |  Ecuador |
4.1% | 18,190,484 | 1.1% | 17,510,643 | 1 Jul 2020[8] |
| 8 |  Bolivia |
2.8% | 12,388,571 | 1.4% | 12,006,031 | 1 Jul 2022[9] |
| 9 |  Paraguay |
1.6% | 6,861,524 | 1.2% | 7,453,695 | 1 Jul 2023[10] |
| 10 |  Uruguay |
0.8% | 3,423,109 | 0.0% | 3,566,549 | 1 Jul 2023[11] |
| 11 |  Guyana |
0.2% | 813,834 | 0.6% | 743,699 | 1 Jul 2019[12] |
| 12 |  Suriname |
0.1% | 623,237 | 0.8% | 598,000 | 1 Jul 2019[13] |
 French Guiana (France) |
0.1% | 312,155 | 2.5% | 301,099 | 1 Jan 2023[14] | |
 Falkland Islands (UK) |
0.001% | 3,791 | 0.3% | 3541 | 10 Oct 2021[15] | |
| Total | 100% | 439,719,011 | 0.3% | 442,633,965 |
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