Venezuela
population: UN projection (1 Jul 2025) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 18 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography18 metros
Venezuela metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 18 tracked metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
25 entries listed under Venezuela across 3 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
States (23)
Federal Districts (1)
Federal Territories (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- Spanish, Venezuelan Sign Language
- Currency
- Sovereign bolivar (Bs.)
- Government
- Federal republic
- Legislature
- National Assembly
- Constitution
- 1999, 1 amendment event since
- Demonym
- Venezuelan
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +58
- Internet TLD
- .ve
- ISO 3166
- VE
- Established
- 1811
- Highest point
- Pico Bolívar (4,978 m (16,332 ft))
- National anthem
- gloria al bravo pueblo
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Venezuela
Spanish first; one language carries the country; 1 official.
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- Effective languages
- 1.5
- Official-language gap
- 18%
- Spanish is spoken by 82%
📰 In the news6 stories
Semafor · 28 Oct 2026
Trump administration pushes for Venezuela electionsThe US blueprint for Venezuelan elections starts with a new supreme court by mid-December.
The Washington Post · 9 Oct 2026
Ex-Trump officials find new jobs in Venezuela's lucrative oil industryFormer Trump administration officials are taking jobs in Venezuela's oil sector, now under U.S. control.
Chevron · 22 Sept 2026
A turning point for energy in VenezuelaChevron said its Venezuelan joint ventures will invest more than $7 billion to double output to 600,000 barrels a day over five years.
Semafor · 29 Aug 2026
US eyes Venezuela's oilThe US is in talks to take a 'massive' stake in Venezuelan oil fields holding about 90 billion barrels, which would more than double US proven reserves.
The New York Times · 26 Jun 2026
Venezuela Earthquake: Live UpdatesVenezuela's worst earthquakes in a century became the first major test of US disaster response in the post-USAID era.
Semafor · 25 Jun 2026
Venezuela faces a record debt restructuringVenezuela is preparing history's largest sovereign debt restructuring, a roughly $240B pile revealed only after Maduro's removal and sanctions relief.
💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations5 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History21 leaders · click to expand
is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file.
Post-Maduro transition
Bolivarian Revolution (Maduro)
Bolivarian Revolution
Punto Fijo democracy (collapse)
Punto Fijo democracy
Republic of Venezuela
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts1 interstate war · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venezuelan War of Independence | 1811–1823 | Spain Spain | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Venezuela is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Venezuela: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires1 · $11.2B combined · click to expand
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Venezuela on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by Venezuela's national teams, newest first. 1 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2026-03-17 | Venezuela | World Baseball Classic |