Demographics of Dominican Republic

Source UN (World Population Prospects 2019)
Date30 Oct 2021

As of 2021, the population of Dominican Republic is projected at 10.95 million, up by 0.98% compared with 10.85 million in 2020. Dominican Republic is ranked 85th in terms of population and 111th in terms of population growth rate.

There are 0.2 million births in Dominican Republic in 2021. That is 555 per day, which is ranked 85th. The crude birth rate is 18.52 per 1000 people. There are 68.8 thousand deaths in Dominican Republic in 2021. That is 188 per day, which is ranked 96th. The crude death rate is 6.29 per 1000 people.

9.33 million people are living in urban areas, which is 83.21% of Dominican Republic population. Dominican Republic is ranked 57th in terms of urbanization.

The Sex Ratio in Dominican Republic in 2021 is 99.70 males per 100 females. There are 5.47 million males and 5.49 million females in Dominica. The percentage of female population is 50.07% compare to 49.93% male population. Dominican Republic has 16.43 thousand more females than males. Dominican Republic is at 113th position out of 201 countries/territories in terms of female to male ratio.

  • Population
  • Growth rate

Dominican Republic population

Year Population Growth (%)
19502,364,649-
19552,781,3383.42
19603,294,2223.43
19653,877,7683.21
19704,499,7222.89
19755,144,6322.60
19805,803,9292.33
19856,464,2292.09
19907,133,4911.94
19957,819,2391.76
20008,471,3171.53
20059,097,2621.37
20109,695,1171.24
201510,281,6751.15
201610,397,7381.13
201710,513,1111.11
201810,627,1471.08
201910,738,9571.05
202010,847,9041.01
202110,953,7140.98
  • Total
  • Crude

Dominican Republic death and birth rate

Year Total Crude(per 1000)
DeathBirthCrude deathCrude birth
195051,917129,12021.5953.95
195553,461152,31419.0954.40
196053,256171,33716.1151.89
196551,334182,55913.2147.03
197048,395188,11410.7341.76
197545,953192,2668.9137.33
198045,438198,0037.8234.09
198546,156204,4947.1331.61
199047,043211,2226.5929.57
199548,869212,8506.2527.24
200051,820209,9036.1224.77
200554,881207,7196.0422.84
201058,460207,5596.0321.40
201562,499208,9946.0820.32
202067,563204,4866.2318.86
202168,787202,7346.2918.52
  • Population
  • Urbanization

Urban and rural population of Dominican Republic

Year Population Urbanization
UrbanRuralgrowth rate (%)Urban (%)
1950561,3991,803,255-23.741
1955746,4222,034,2305.9526.843
1960994,5182,299,5245.8530.191
19651,359,6502,519,2986.2735.052
19701,813,5922,689,5225.7040.274
19752,355,0192,794,9165.1445.729
19802,979,5722,829,6974.6251.290
19853,495,4152,993,4412.6853.868
19903,967,2383,216,4092.5055.226
19954,545,8583,346,5653.3257.598
20005,287,7183,274,9042.9561.753
20056,223,3753,014,1913.5867.370
20107,300,0542,597,9313.0273.753
20158,271,7022,256,6922.3478.566
20209,168,8761,939,4821.8982.540
20219,334,5441,883,1121.8183.213
  • Population pyramid
  • Gender ratio

Dominican Republic population by Age Group (2011)

Age group Male Female Total M per 100 F
PersonsShare (%)
00-04 509,921 489,166 999,087 9.12 104.243
05-09 509,314 489,294 998,608 9.12 104.092
10-14 498,850 479,496 978,346 8.93 104.036
15-19 487,210 468,745 955,955 8.73 103.939
20-24 475,809 460,103 935,912 8.54 103.414
25-29 461,235 457,110 918,345 8.38 100.902
30-34 416,335 423,590 839,925 7.67 98.287
35-39 377,453 373,434 750,887 6.86 101.076
40-44 337,111 340,511 677,622 6.19 99.002
45-49 302,857 311,956 614,813 5.61 97.083
50-54 268,401 281,921 550,322 5.02 95.204
55-59 234,028 248,573 482,601 4.41 94.149
60-64 193,949 206,574 400,523 3.66 93.888
65-69 146,829 159,080 305,909 2.79 92.299
70-74 100,759 112,905 213,664 1.95 89.242
75-79 65,552 76,286 141,838 1.29 85.929
80-84 43,357 53,323 96,680 0.88 81.310
85-89 24,334 31,534 55,868 0.51 77.168
90-94 10,722 14,643 25,365 0.23 73.223
95-99 3,589 5,232 8,821 0.08 68.597
100+ 1,027 1,596 2,623 0.02 64.348
Total 5,468,642 5,485,072 10,953,714 99.700