Eritrea vs Puerto Rico: Population

Eritrea

3.47 million people

in 2023

Puerto Rico

3.24 million people

in 2023

Eritrea rank

132nd

Puerto Rico rank

135th

Population over time

Eritrea currently reports 3.47 million people against 3.24 million people in Puerto Rico, a difference of 228,370 people.

That makes Eritrea's figure about 1.1 times Puerto Rico's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 106 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Eritrea ahead.

Eritrea ranks 132nd and Puerto Rico ranks 135th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.