Mapped: Population of Every Territory in South America

South America has 14 countries and territories. Four of them contain three-quarters of everyone who lives there.

The map above presents the 2026 population of every territory in South America, based on data harvested from Worldometers.

The combined population of South America across all 14 entries is approximately 458 million people.

Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru together account for approximately 75.6% of South America’s total population of roughly 458 million.
Brazil alone holds nearly 46.5% of the entire continent’s population at 212.8 million people
Venezuela’s official population of 28.5 million significantly understates its pre-crisis size, with an estimated 7 to 8 million people having left the country since 2015 due to economic collapse and political crisis.

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Colombia’s 53.4 million population places it second, but its demographic reality is more complicated than the raw number suggests.

Colombia hosts the world’s largest Venezuelan migrant population (estimated at over 2.8 million people).

That makes the country both a major South American nation in its own right and the primary absorber of one of the hemisphere’s most significant displacement crises.

Venezuela’s official 2026 population stands at 28,516,896, but it understates what Venezuela’s population would be without the emigration wave of the past decade.

An estimated 7 to 8 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2015, driven by economic collapse, political repression, and humanitarian crisis.

Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Argentina have each absorbed significant portions of that displaced population.

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