Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in Puerto Rico
About 1 in 6,990 people born in 2023 started life in Puerto Rico. A boy can expect to live 78 years and a girl 85, up from 59 and 62 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 21 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 84 in every 1,000 births to 6.0.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 5.2 children on average in 1950. Now it is 0.9, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is San Juan, with 418,140 people.
Cities and regions
Every state, province and large city with a page.
Largest regions
Sourced: GeoNames Population of each state, province or region.
All 20 regions
- San Juan418,140
- Bayamón203,499
- Carolina170,404
- Ponce137,491
- Arecibo87,754
- Caguas86,804
- Guaynabo81,360
- Trujillo Alto75,243
- Mayagüez73,077
- Toa Baja47,416
- Fajardo32,124
- Vega Baja29,325
- Cataño28,093
- Barceloneta22,322
- Guayama21,575
- Humacao20,387
- Yauco20,295
- Cayey18,494
- Manatí16,092
- Aguadilla16,073
People on the move
About 60% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are United States, Dominican Republic, Guam.
Safety nets
81% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 13%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Puerto Rico, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences