SEASON 1
/
GET THE APP
My Ideal World

My Ideal World

Puerto Rico
Destinations › Caribbean · The Destination Index · universal template · every figure sourced

Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico had 3,184,835 people in 2025. Forest covered 49.75 percent of the land in 2024. Renewable electricity was 4.58 percent of generation in 2021. World Bank series. The 2020 Census profile from the US Census Bureau lists Black or African American alone at 7.0 percent and two or more races at 49.8 percent of the 3,285,874 people counted that year. The Eco Index stays unpublished until every pillar has a named source.
Region · Caribbean Population · 3,184,835 in 2025 (World Bank). Eco Index · /100 · Not yet scored
HistoryNatureClimateAI & data centres

The History of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico had 3,184,835 people in 2025. Forest covered 49.75 percent of the land in 2024. Renewable electricity was 4.58 percent of generation in 2021. World Bank series. The 2020 Census profile from the US Census Bureau lists Black or African American alone at 7.0 percent and two or more races at 49.8 percent of the 3,285,874 people counted that year. The Eco Index stays unpublished until every pillar has a named source.

Nature and Biodiversity in Puerto Rico.

How protected is nature in Puerto Rico?
Forest cover49.75%

Climate and Energy in Puerto Rico.

What powers Puerto Rico?
Renewable 4.6%Fossil 95.4%

AI and Data Centres in Puerto Rico.

Every prompt runs on a machine in a building on somebody’s grid. What that costs the planet depends less on the prompt than on what is burning to power it. Here is what would power one in Puerto Rico.
Grid renewable
4.6 %
What a machine here runs on.
What powers a data centre in Puerto Rico?
Almost everything a machine here consumes is burned fossil fuel.
Renewable 4.6%Fossil 95.4%
Where the numbers come from.
The institutions above are the ones cited on this page, ranked by how many of its figures they carry. This same sectioned page renders for all 77 scored destinations, each with its own researched history, comparison charts and three-way future. Read the full methodology
Every figure on this page, and where it came from: 1 sources across 1 institutions
US Census Bureau1 FIGURE
  • 2020 Census State Profile, Puerto Rico check