population

Pope Francis and the Caribbean

Flights

Flight Watcher: You Can Fly From Miami to St. Croix for $297 on American Airlines

The water just off St. Croix’s north shore drops from bright turquoise to deep blue within a few yards of the sand at Cane Bay. Shore divers step into the sea from the beach and descend along a dramatic underwater wall. In Christiansted, the harbor stays busy with boats heading to Buck Island Reef National […]

population

How Many People Live in the Caribbean?

By the Caribbean Journal staff How many people live in the Caribbean? It’s a question we’re often asked. And the answer is, well, complicated. That’s because it depends on what geographical area you define as the Caribbean. We culled data from a range of sources, using the most recent estimates from 2012 across the region, […]

population

Jamaica's Population "Not Likely to Exceed" 3 Million People

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s population is not likely to exceed 3 million people, according to the Planning Institute of Jamaica. The country currently has a population of around 2.71 million people, a number not likely to significantly increase, given factors like current fertility rates, high external migration and declining […]

population

Ranking the Caribbean By Population Age

Above: the Umana Yana in Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff Continuing our examination of Caribbean data from the World Bank’s recent World Development Report, we now turn to population age. What are the Caribbean’s oldest populations? What are the youngest? To answer the question, we looked at the World Bank’s data on the percentage […]

Jamaica's Population "Not Likely to Exceed" 3 Million People

Above: a tent camp in Haiti in 2011 (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff The number of Haitians living in tent camps as a result of the 2010 earthquake has fallen to 172,000, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration. That number stood at around 1.5 million in the aftermath of […]

Minister: Trinidad "Must" Invest in Youth

Above: Port-of-Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago “must” invest in its youth population, according to Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development Marlene Coudray. The Minister was speaking at the National Youth Awards 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain. “A nation aspiring to sustainable development on par with first-world countries must […]

Ranking Caribbean Countries By Population Density

By the Caribbean Journal staff The World Bank’s recently-released World Development Report contains mounds of fascinating data about the world and, more importantly, the Caribbean. We’ll be doing a series of posts putting together the data, on everything from GDP per capita to life expectancy. This one focuses on population density, or, to put it […]

Montserrat Releases Census Data

By the Caribbean Journal staff Montserrat’s Statistics Department released its first publication based on newly-collected census data, with the island’s population standing at 4,922. Montserrat is the first in the OECS to release data, and plans tow more publications based on the information later this year, looking at income and the economy. “Hundreds of persons […]

Belize Has Caribbean's Fastest-Growing Population: UN Report

Above: Ranguana Caye, Belize Belize is projected to have a 2 percent annual population growth rate for the first half of this decade, the fastest pace in CARICOM, according to the United Nations Development Programme. Belize, which has a population of 300,000, is followed by Haiti, at 1.3 percent, and St Kitts and Nevis, which, […]

SUBSCRIBE!

Sign up for Caribbean Journal's free newsletter for a daily dose of beaches, hotels, rum and the best Caribbean travel information on the net.

No. Thank You