This list of Caribbean countries and dependencies by population is sorted by the mid-year normalized demographic projections from the United Nations,[1] the change from the previous year, and the most recent official figure.
Country / dependency | % total | UN 2023 estimate |
% change |
Official figure |
Official date | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Haiti | 25.0% | 11,724,764 | 1.2% | 9,801,664 | 1 Jul 2012[2] |
2 | Dominican Republic | 24.0% | 11,332,973 | 0.9% | 10,711,155 | 1 Jul 2023[3] |
3 | Cuba | 24.0% | 11,194,449 | -0.2% | 10,055,968 | 1 Dec 2023[4] |
– | Puerto Rico (US) | 7.0% | 3,260,314 | -1.6% | 3,203,295 | 1 Jul 2024[5] |
4 | Jamaica | 6.1% | 2,825,544 | -0.1% | 2,734,092 | 1 Jul 2019[6] |
5 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3.3% | 1,534,937 | 0.3% | 1,365,805 | 30 Jun 2022[7] |
6 | Guyana | 1.8% | 813,834 | 0.6% | 743,699 | 1 Jul 2019[8] |
7 | Suriname | 1.3% | 623,237 | 0.8% | 616,500 | 1 Jul 2021[9] |
8 | Bahamas | 0.9% | 412,624 | 0.6% | 395,640 | 1 Jul 2019[10] |
9 | Belize | 0.9% | 410,825 | 1.4% | 441,471 | 1 Jul 2022[11] |
– | Guadeloupe (France) | 0.9% | 395,839 | 0.0% | 390,253 | 1 Jul 2020[12] |
– | Martinique (France) | 0.8% | 366,981 | -0.1% | 372,594 | 1 Jul 2020[13] |
10 | Barbados | 0.6% | 281,996 | 0.1% | 277,821 | 1 May 2010[14] |
– | Curaçao (Netherlands) | 0.4% | 192,077 | 0.5% | 148,925 | 1 Jan 2023[15] |
11 | Saint Lucia | 0.4% | 180,251 | 0.2% | 178,696 | 1 Jul 2018[16] |
12 | Grenada | 0.3% | 126,184 | 0.6% | 112,579 | 1 Jul 2019[17] |
– | Aruba (Netherlands) | 0.2% | 106,277 | -0.2% | 107,457 | 31 Dec 2021[18] |
13 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0.2% | 103,699 | -0.2% | 110,418 | 1 Jul 2022[19] |
– | United States Virgin Islands (US) | 0.2% | 98,750 | -0.7% | 87,146 | 1 Apr 2020[20] |
14 | Antigua and Barbuda | 0.2% | 94,298 | 0.6% | 100,772 | 1 Jan 2022[21] |
15 | Dominica | 0.2% | 73,040 | 0.4% | 71,293 | 14 May 2011[22] |
– | Cayman Islands (UK) | 0.1% | 69,310 | 0.9% | 71,432 | 10 Oct 2021[23] |
16 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 0.1% | 47,755 | 0.2% | 47,195 | 15 May 2011[24] |
– | Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) | 0.1% | 46,062 | 0.8% | 46,131 | 1 Jul 2021[25] |
– | Sint Maarten (Netherlands) | 0.1% | 44,222 | 0.1% | 42,938 | 1 Jan 2023[26] |
– | Saint Martin (France) | 0.07% | 32,077 | 0.9% | 36,108 | 1 Jan 2020[27] |
– | British Virgin Islands (UK) | 0.07% | 31,538 | 0.7% | 28,054 | 12 Jul 2010[28] |
– | Caribbean Netherlands (Netherlands) | 0.06% | 27,148 | 0.4% | 27,726 | 1 Jan 2022[29] |
– | Anguilla (UK) | 0.03% | 15,900 | 0.3% | 15,780 | 1 Dec 2022[30] |
– | Saint Barthélemy (France) | 0.02% | 10,994 | 0.2% | 10,083 | 1 Jan 2020[31] |
– | Montserrat (UK) | 0.01% | 4,387 | -0.1% | 4,433 | 1 Jul 2022[32] |
– | Caribbean | 100% | 46,482,286 | 0.6% | 43,432,864 |