Paraguay
Country in Americas
CountryScope
In brief
Population: 7M (2025). World rank 107 of 216; in Americas, 17 of 46. Area: 406,752 km². World rank 61 of 249; in Americas, 12 of 56. GDP per person: $7,027 (2025). World rank 121 of 210 (1 = best); in Americas, 38 of 45. From 2015 to 2025: population 6.2M → 7M, GDP $36.2B → $49.3B, and GDP per person $5,879 → $7,027.
State
- Official name
- Republic of Paraguay
- Local name
- Paraguái
- Capital
- Asunción
- Region
- Americas
- Form of government
- Presidential republic
- UN member
- Yes
- Head of state
- Santiago Peña Palacios
- Head of government
- Santiago Peña Palacios
- Independence
- May 15, 1811
- Women in parliament
- 23.8% 2025
Key figures
- Population
- 7,013,078 2025
- Area
- 406,752 km²
- GDP
- $49.3B 2025
- GDP per person
- $7,027 2025
- Life expectancy
- 74 years 2024
Practical information
- Languages
- Guarani, Spanish
- Currency
- Paraguayan Guarani (PYG)
- Time zones
- UTC−3
- Calling code
- +595
- Emergency numbers
- 911
- Driving side
- Right
- Plug types
- C
- Mains voltage
- 220 V
Territory
- Sea access
- Landlocked
- Coastline, km
- 0
- Neighbours
- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil
- Agricultural land
- 54.1% 2024
Elevation
- Highest point
- Cerro Tres Kandú, 842 m
- Lowest point
- junction of Río Paraguay and Río Paraná, 46 m
- Mean elevation, m
- 178
Climate
- Average temperature in the capital, °C
- 23
- Warmest month in the capital
- January, 28°C
- Coldest month in the capital
- July, 16°C
- Precipitation, mm per year
- 1,130 2022
Population and migration
- Population density
- 17.2 per km² 2025
- Population growth per year
- +1.2% 2025
- Living in cities
- 70.4% 2025
- Net migration per year
- -12.4K 2025
- Born in another country
- 2.6% 2024
Age and life expectancy
- Aged 0–14
- 28.4% 2025
- Aged 15–64
- 64.9% 2025
- Aged 65 and over
- 6.7% 2025
- Life expectancy, women
- 77.1 years 2024
- Life expectancy, men
- 71 years 2024
Births and deaths
- Children per woman
- 2.4 2024
- Births per 1,000 people
- 19.7 2024
- Deaths per 1,000 people
- 5.7 2024
Society
- Religions
- Catholic 80.4%, Protestant 13.7%, and other 6.3% (2023)
Quality of governance (100 = best)
- Rule of law, score 0–100
- 48.2 2025
- Control of corruption, score 0–100
- 27.7 2025
- Government effectiveness, score 0–100
- 47.7 2025
- Regulatory quality, score 0–100
- 55 2025
- Voice and accountability, score 0–100
- 55.2 2025
Size and growth
- GDP per person at purchasing power parity
- $20,181 2025
- GDP growth per year
- +6.6% 2025
Income and prices
- Income level (World Bank)
- Upper-middle income
- Gross national income per person
- $6,750 2025
- Inflation
- +4% 2025
- Price level, USA = 100
- 35 2025
Structure and jobs
- Agriculture, share of GDP
- 11.6% 2025
- Industry, share of GDP
- 32.3% 2025
- Services, share of GDP
- 48.1% 2025
- Unemployment
- 4.8% 2025
- Youth unemployment, ages 15–24
- 11.7% 2025
- Women in work or seeking work
- 59% 2025
Trade and finance
- Exports, share of GDP
- 37.2% 2025
- Imports, share of GDP
- 39.3% 2025
- Current account balance, share of GDP
- -2.5% 2025
- Foreign direct investment, share of GDP
- +2.4% 2025
- Remittances received, share of GDP
- 3.1% 2025
- Tax revenue, share of GDP
- 11.3% 2024
Poverty and inequality
- Gini index (0 = full equality)
- 44.2 2024
- Living on under $3 a day
- 2.1% 2024
Education
- Adult literacy
- 94.9% 2024
- Primary school enrolment
- 89.4% 2024
- Secondary school enrolment
- 79.1% 2024
- Higher education enrolment
- 37.6% 2010
- Public spending on education, share of GDP
- 3.5% 2024
Healthcare
- Health spending, share of GDP
- 8.4% 2023
- Health spending per person
- $527 2023
- Out-of-pocket health spending, share of total
- 36.3% 2023
- Doctors per 1,000 people
- 3.9 2022
- Nurses and midwives per 1,000 people
- 9.4 2022
- Hospital beds per 1,000 people
- 1 2022
- Children vaccinated against measles
- 90% 2024
Public health
- Infant deaths per 1,000 births
- 14.5 2024
- Deaths under age 5 per 1,000 births
- 16.3 2024
- Maternal deaths per 100,000 births
- 58 2023
- HIV prevalence, ages 15–49
- 0.5% 2024
- Diabetes prevalence, ages 20–79
- 9.4% 2024
- Overweight adults
- 69.1% 2022
- Adults who use tobacco
- 6.4% 2024
Living conditions
- Access to safe drinking water
- 99.6% 2024
- Access to basic sanitation
- 95.9% 2024
- Access to clean cooking fuels
- 76% 2024
Safety
- Homicides per 100,000 people
- 6.8 2023
- Road deaths per 100,000 people
- 22 2019
- Suicides per 100,000 people
- 6.4 2021
- Political stability and absence of violence, score 0–100
- 68 2025
- Natural hazards
- floods
Air and emissions
- Air pollution PM2.5, µg/m³
- 15.3 2023
- CO₂ emissions, tonnes per person
- 1.2 2024
- All greenhouse gases, tonnes CO₂e per person
- 6 2024
Nature and water
- Forest cover
- 36.5% 2024
- Protected areas
- 14.9% 2025
- Renewable fresh water, m³ per person
- 17,307 2022
- Water stress, share of fresh water withdrawn
- 1.8% 2022
Internet and communications
- Using the internet
- 81.6% 2024
- Mobile subscriptions per 100 people
- 127 2023
- Home broadband per 100 people
- 12.9 2023
- Internet domain
- .py
Energy
- Access to electricity
- 99.8% 2024
- Electricity use, kWh per person
- 2,849 2024
- Renewable share of energy use
- 58.8% 2021
- Electricity from renewables
- 100% 2012
- Electricity from fossil fuels
- 0% 2024
Transport
- Air passengers per year
- 407,865 2023
- Airports
- 83 2025
- Railways, km
- 30 2014
Science and innovation
- Research spending, share of GDP
- 0.1% 2023
- Researchers per million people
- 139 2023
- Scientific articles per year
- 253 2023
- Patent applications by residents
- 15 2024
- High-tech share of manufactured exports
- 10.5% 2024