Aruba population

Aruba had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2017: 72,357 people aged 15–64, against 71,721 in 2023.

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 34 years: 1986–1990 and 1994–2022.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Aruba gains 198 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 40 a year more arriving than leaving.

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 2,010 (1999) and the most it lost was 1,205 (1971).

In 2024, 73,494 people living in Aruba had been born in another country, 68 of every 100 people there, against 22 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Aruba in 2023, 6 had a mother under 20, 74 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 20 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 21 aged 35 or older.

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023

1,020

Average age when women have a baby

28.8 years

29.8 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

19

56 in 1950

At the end of 2025, Aruba was hosting 11,470 people who had crossed a border into it, about 106 of every 1,000 people living there.

1. hosted from abroad11,470
2. Aruba nationals abroad5

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 200 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Aruba living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Aruba in 2025, 96 lived in a town or suburb and 4 in the countryside.

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

Of every 100 adults in Aruba in 2020, 6 never went to school and 37 finished upper secondary or went further.

Compare two generations. Aged 60–64, 8.5 of every 100 women and 7.7 of every 100 men never went to school; aged 25–29, 1.1 and 2.1.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2065; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2090.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

No place in Aruba is big and dense enough to count as a city under the UN's rule — at least 50,000 people, living 1,500 or more to the square kilometre.

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