Sub-region · UN WPP 2024

Caribbean population

Caribbean population now

44,820,454

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 44,249,267

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 44.7830 million
Median age: 33.7
Aged 65+: 11.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2044

male female projection · one cell = 10,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Caribbean in numbers

44,249,267 people lived in The Caribbean in mid-2023: 0.55% of the world's people. That is 2.6 times its 1950 population of 17.2 million. It covers 28 countries and areas; the largest are Haiti (26.3%), the Dominican Republic (25.6%), Cuba (24.9%), Puerto Rico (7.3%) and Jamaica (6.4%).

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2044 at 46.1 million, then falling to 37.3 million by 2100.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2051; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it.

The median age was 20.2 in 1950 and 32.7 in 2023; the projection has 46.5 in 2100. 10.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 26.9% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2034 at 29.9 million.

Population, mid-2023: 44,249,267
Share of the world, 2023: 0.55%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.45% · +196,365 people
Births, 2023: 654,307
Deaths, 2023: 369,239
Net migration, 2023: −81,063
Children per woman, 2023: 1.98
Median age, 2023: 32.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 73.1 years
Population, mid-1950: 17,193,336
Projected, mid-2050: 45,997,117
Projected, mid-2100: 37,345,244

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Caribbean, 1950–2100

Caribbean: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	17,025,374	679,752	275,899	5.17	50.9
1951	estimate	17,361,299	686,397	273,145	5.14	51.5
1952	estimate	17,700,371	694,926	268,682	5.12	52.2
1953	estimate	18,042,526	706,251	263,214	5.12	53.0
1954	estimate	18,391,842	720,537	260,740	5.14	53.7
1955	estimate	18,747,854	735,003	258,157	5.17	54.4
1956	estimate	19,109,748	748,683	257,373	5.18	54.9
1957	estimate	19,479,117	760,052	255,920	5.18	55.5
1958	estimate	19,856,677	774,831	255,451	5.21	56.0
1959	estimate	20,243,972	791,561	254,345	5.25	56.6
1960	estimate	20,642,910	812,636	253,856	5.32	57.1
1961	estimate	21,072,809	827,998	254,152	5.33	57.6
1962	estimate	21,513,028	847,328	253,768	5.37	58.2
1963	estimate	21,960,532	864,029	261,897	5.39	58.0
1964	estimate	22,410,792	870,548	254,891	5.34	59.0
1965	estimate	22,869,342	874,840	257,482	5.28	59.1
1966	estimate	23,324,413	868,895	252,841	5.15	59.9
1967	estimate	23,781,065	863,447	251,336	5.03	60.4
1968	estimate	24,233,405	857,679	251,247	4.90	60.7
1969	estimate	24,680,968	856,545	251,465	4.79	61.0
1970	estimate	25,128,363	853,070	251,398	4.67	61.4
1971	estimate	25,588,880	853,070	249,590	4.56	61.8
1972	estimate	26,058,439	848,442	250,689	4.42	62.1
1973	estimate	26,521,225	843,427	251,570	4.28	62.4
1974	estimate	26,977,059	832,635	251,704	4.11	62.7
1975	estimate	27,421,834	814,208	251,392	3.92	63.0
1976	estimate	27,858,545	800,023	252,201	3.76	63.3
1977	estimate	28,282,696	787,225	253,220	3.60	63.5
1978	estimate	28,694,029	770,615	254,881	3.43	63.7
1979	estimate	29,093,648	770,880	258,836	3.34	63.9
1980	estimate	29,488,200	769,971	259,696	3.25	64.2
1981	estimate	29,871,504	774,781	262,036	3.18	64.5
1982	estimate	30,269,997	801,155	262,517	3.20	64.8
1983	estimate	30,701,459	814,049	263,748	3.17	65.1
1984	estimate	31,145,796	818,368	265,914	3.11	65.4
1985	estimate	31,590,746	826,241	269,826	3.07	65.5
1986	estimate	32,036,966	836,037	271,197	3.04	65.8
1987	estimate	32,482,443	844,514	272,947	3.01	66.0
1988	estimate	32,931,853	859,287	275,930	3.01	66.3
1989	estimate	33,393,509	868,540	280,643	2.99	66.4
1990	estimate	33,859,520	871,906	282,127	2.96	66.6
1991	estimate	34,334,563	856,927	283,623	2.88	66.9
1992	estimate	34,793,443	847,321	286,502	2.82	67.0
1993	estimate	35,238,627	837,317	289,130	2.76	67.2
1994	estimate	35,665,995	829,241	290,337	2.71	67.4
1995	estimate	36,082,359	823,270	290,353	2.68	67.7
1996	estimate	36,492,293	814,366	290,402	2.64	68.0
1997	estimate	36,896,935	816,911	289,137	2.64	68.5
1998	estimate	37,294,812	805,912	290,719	2.59	68.7
1999	estimate	37,684,085	804,725	290,468	2.58	69.1
2000	estimate	38,067,151	802,610	293,311	2.57	69.3
2001	estimate	38,430,548	790,072	292,968	2.52	69.7
2002	estimate	38,779,070	782,532	292,209	2.50	70.1
2003	estimate	39,122,572	773,464	291,258	2.46	70.5
2004	estimate	39,460,780	760,222	302,770	2.41	70.0
2005	estimate	39,780,833	748,734	299,289	2.36	70.7
2006	estimate	40,092,595	736,419	303,668	2.31	70.9
2007	estimate	40,399,836	738,371	308,305	2.30	71.0
2008	estimate	40,700,787	750,747	312,402	2.33	71.2
2009	estimate	41,001,478	762,103	316,598	2.35	71.5
2010	estimate	41,306,832	759,659	408,627	2.33	65.5
2011	estimate	41,506,083	759,095	319,803	2.32	71.8
2012	estimate	41,791,537	746,039	318,469	2.27	72.2
2013	estimate	42,060,196	737,560	320,473	2.24	72.4
2014	estimate	42,317,800	730,644	327,750	2.22	72.4
2015	estimate	42,554,525	726,258	333,018	2.21	72.5
2016	estimate	42,793,166	713,167	342,161	2.16	72.3
2017	estimate	43,008,651	703,269	349,991	2.13	72.4
2018	estimate	43,110,808	697,197	349,171	2.12	72.7
2019	estimate	43,412,006	686,579	356,486	2.08	72.6
2020	estimate	43,609,629	674,925	375,097	2.05	72.3
2021	estimate	43,833,400	664,808	455,488	2.01	70.0
2022	estimate	43,958,562	658,329	373,282	1.99	72.6
2023	estimate	44,147,243	654,307	369,239	1.98	73.1
2024	estimate	44,351,291	650,221	373,593	1.97	73.3
2025	projection	44,538,329	644,275	378,730	1.95	73.4
2026	projection	44,706,628	639,077	384,139	1.94	73.6
2027	projection	44,859,373	634,387	389,567	1.93	73.7
2028	projection	45,004,365	629,572	395,296	1.92	73.8
2029	projection	45,138,532	625,383	401,110	1.91	74.0
2030	projection	45,263,290	621,075	406,988	1.90	74.1
2031	projection	45,378,052	616,873	412,988	1.90	74.3
2032	projection	45,486,230	612,604	419,037	1.89	74.4
2033	projection	45,585,847	608,161	425,145	1.88	74.5
2034	projection	45,676,961	604,029	431,392	1.88	74.7
2035	projection	45,759,774	599,991	437,563	1.87	74.8
2036	projection	45,836,317	595,765	443,733	1.87	74.9
2037	projection	45,904,601	591,603	450,046	1.86	75.0
2038	projection	45,962,502	587,378	456,221	1.86	75.2
2039	projection	46,013,549	582,826	462,369	1.85	75.3
2040	projection	46,053,994	578,177	468,581	1.85	75.4
2041	projection	46,087,336	573,765	474,800	1.84	75.5
2042	projection	46,113,194	569,315	481,044	1.84	75.6
2043	projection	46,131,190	564,754	487,012	1.84	75.7
2044	projection	46,140,188	559,749	493,069	1.83	75.8
2045	projection	46,141,509	555,052	498,939	1.83	75.9
2046	projection	46,134,175	550,009	504,711	1.82	76.0
2047	projection	46,117,707	545,212	510,364	1.82	76.2
2048	projection	46,093,130	540,719	515,815	1.82	76.3
2049	projection	46,062,267	535,594	521,420	1.81	76.3
2050	projection	46,020,350	530,730	526,722	1.81	76.5
2051	projection	45,973,884	526,096	531,953	1.81	76.5
2052	projection	45,916,761	520,959	536,626	1.80	76.6
2053	projection	45,850,473	516,123	541,287	1.80	76.7
2054	projection	45,775,443	511,404	545,531	1.80	76.8
2055	projection	45,690,135	507,082	549,672	1.80	76.9
2056	projection	45,597,715	503,048	553,326	1.79	77.0
2057	projection	45,496,502	499,252	556,757	1.79	77.1
2058	projection	45,390,233	494,964	559,860	1.79	77.2
2059	projection	45,277,204	490,752	562,857	1.79	77.3
2060	projection	45,156,631	486,586	565,551	1.78	77.4
2061	projection	45,029,008	482,705	567,696	1.78	77.5
2062	projection	44,896,474	479,163	569,640	1.78	77.5
2063	projection	44,758,376	475,468	571,108	1.77	77.7
2064	projection	44,617,325	472,049	572,591	1.77	77.7
2065	projection	44,469,745	468,647	573,592	1.77	77.8
2066	projection	44,317,228	465,042	574,794	1.77	77.9
2067	projection	44,162,735	461,463	575,686	1.76	78.0
2068	projection	44,004,158	457,774	576,377	1.76	78.1
2069	projection	43,841,755	454,242	577,039	1.76	78.2
2070	projection	43,675,780	450,806	577,640	1.76	78.3
2071	projection	43,505,644	447,341	578,120	1.75	78.5
2072	projection	43,333,831	444,108	578,825	1.75	78.5
2073	projection	43,157,249	440,653	579,138	1.75	78.6
2074	projection	42,977,689	437,064	579,561	1.75	78.8
2075	projection	42,793,648	433,582	580,080	1.75	78.8
2076	projection	42,607,856	430,257	580,444	1.75	79.0
2077	projection	42,418,705	426,761	580,900	1.74	79.0
2078	projection	42,225,411	423,354	581,307	1.74	79.2
2079	projection	42,029,249	419,666	581,583	1.74	79.2
2080	projection	41,829,475	415,927	581,670	1.74	79.3
2081	projection	41,625,878	412,245	581,557	1.74	79.5
2082	projection	41,420,131	408,696	581,334	1.73	79.5
2083	projection	41,211,148	405,187	580,797	1.73	79.7
2084	projection	41,001,583	401,699	580,224	1.73	79.7
2085	projection	40,788,256	398,059	578,931	1.73	79.8
2086	projection	40,572,550	394,499	577,782	1.73	79.9
2087	projection	40,354,508	391,269	576,189	1.73	80.0
2088	projection	40,136,043	387,832	574,559	1.72	80.1
2089	projection	39,916,443	384,531	572,576	1.72	80.2
2090	projection	39,694,462	381,553	570,594	1.72	80.3
2091	projection	39,472,684	378,580	568,574	1.72	80.4
2092	projection	39,250,365	375,641	566,448	1.72	80.5
2093	projection	39,027,443	372,629	564,169	1.72	80.6
2094	projection	38,803,684	369,907	562,234	1.72	80.7
2095	projection	38,580,280	366,998	559,944	1.72	80.8
2096	projection	38,356,010	363,977	557,745	1.71	80.9
2097	projection	38,131,936	361,065	555,067	1.71	81.0
2098	projection	37,907,665	358,288	552,424	1.71	81.1
2099	projection	37,682,816	355,541	549,981	1.71	81.2
2100	projection	37,457,861	352,893	547,227	1.71	81.3

AGG · members

Countries and areas in Caribbean

Caribbean: member countries and areas, population mid-2023, share of the group and projected mid-2100
#	Country or area	Mid-2023	Share	Mid-2100, projected
1	Haiti	11,637,398	26.3%	15,151,093
2	Dominican Republic	11,331,266	25.6%	11,674,910
3	Cuba	11,019,930	24.9%	5,577,282
4	Puerto Rico	3,242,022	7.3%	995,626
5	Jamaica	2,839,786	6.4%	1,066,774
6	Trinidad and Tobago	1,502,932	3.4%	898,355
7	Bahamas	399,440	0.90%	384,955
8	Guadeloupe	376,516	0.85%	244,456
9	Martinique	346,002	0.78%	209,808
10	Barbados	282,336	0.64%	194,698
11	Curaçao	185,427	0.42%	120,454
12	Saint Lucia	179,284	0.41%	108,207
13	Grenada	117,081	0.26%	73,887
14	Aruba	107,938	0.24%	75,170
15	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	101,322	0.23%	64,218
16	Antigua and Barbuda	93,316	0.21%	67,975
17	US Virgin Islands	85,701	0.19%	61,961
18	Cayman Islands	73,038	0.17%	118,032
19	Dominica	66,511	0.15%	49,110
20	Saint Kitts and Nevis	46,758	0.11%	30,239
21	Turks and Caicos Islands	46,198	0.10%	38,672
22	Sint Maarten	42,749	0.10%	42,278
23	British Virgin Islands	38,985	0.09%	27,890
24	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	29,898	0.07%	27,860
25	Saint Martin	27,514	0.06%	20,004
26	Anguilla	14,410	0.03%	9,309
27	Saint Barthélemy	11,085	0.03%	9,238
28	Montserrat	4,421	less than 0.01%	2,782

Show the numbers: Caribbean, mid-2026, by single year of age

Caribbean: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	317,778	306,804
1	317,302	306,736
2	318,236	307,468
3	318,802	307,789
4	320,075	309,024
5	323,596	312,443
6	328,804	317,187
7	333,843	322,122
8	336,362	324,862
9	338,470	326,766
10	342,750	330,818
11	345,715	333,982
12	347,283	335,607
13	349,912	338,015
14	353,369	342,202
15	354,510	344,032
16	353,044	342,418
17	349,675	338,872
18	343,788	333,039
19	338,656	328,257
20	337,096	327,164
21	338,714	329,246
22	341,110	331,960
23	342,769	333,986
24	343,920	335,595
25	344,899	337,226
26	342,729	335,510
27	338,100	331,142
28	335,424	328,879
29	334,366	328,454
30	332,166	327,537
31	329,265	326,056
32	328,732	325,596
33	330,556	326,881
34	332,888	328,972
35	333,927	331,376
36	331,812	331,148
37	325,943	326,149
38	316,672	317,311
39	308,704	309,110
40	304,556	305,050
41	298,116	300,184
42	290,078	294,113
43	282,862	287,705
44	272,068	277,154
45	262,640	267,927
46	257,848	263,880
47	253,819	260,942
48	253,451	260,518
49	255,798	263,900
50	255,546	266,625
51	254,705	267,970
52	257,387	271,926
53	261,289	276,977
54	259,661	277,041
55	253,406	271,604
56	246,358	265,493
57	240,562	262,921
58	237,814	262,136
59	236,241	261,211
60	233,252	260,289
61	229,284	258,022
62	224,345	252,606
63	215,485	243,645
64	200,898	230,392
65	186,866	216,532
66	174,933	203,786
67	162,284	191,132
68	151,791	181,291
69	143,538	174,164
70	135,935	167,214
71	128,670	159,578
72	121,934	152,776
73	114,248	144,621
74	105,200	134,802
75	97,228	126,222
76	89,935	117,756
77	83,593	110,660
78	78,108	104,895
79	70,912	96,874
80	63,484	88,583
81	56,754	80,530
82	50,542	72,544
83	44,946	65,503
84	38,842	58,130
85	33,650	51,707
86	29,128	45,989
87	24,460	39,986
88	20,402	34,549
89	16,932	29,514
90	13,816	24,790
91	10,953	20,559
92	8,770	17,122
93	6,994	14,098
94	5,323	11,206
95	4,060	8,908
96	3,065	7,006
97	2,203	5,286
98	1,547	3,926
99	1,088	2,899
100+	2,026	6,509

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Caribbean, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Caribbean

On the UN's projection, the Caribbean will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2034: 29,942,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 29,353,200.

100 aged 15–64

34 children

16 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

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

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Caribbean, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the Caribbean loses 87,552 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 16,532 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 2,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was -46,905 (2018) and the most it lost was 251,062 (2017).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Caribbean

Of every 100 babies born in the Caribbean in 2023, 12 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 16 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
16 · 68 · 16

2023
12 · 72 · 16

2050 · projected
8 · 71 · 21

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

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 654,307
Average age when women have a baby: 28.1 years; 28.3 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 46; 123 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the Caribbean by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	5,060	7,026	6,558	2,354	1,117	107
15–19	104,593	153,741	130,837	76,777	41,750	9,517
20–24	195,998	249,424	223,157	166,919	107,352	45,209
25–29	160,724	187,974	204,051	168,932	137,318	97,239
30–34	108,251	114,704	138,584	136,822	131,896	114,086
35–39	72,945	69,217	73,258	77,178	83,438	67,280
40–44	27,622	26,963	22,622	22,656	25,483	17,997
45–49	4,407	4,952	3,408	2,597	2,326	1,442
50–54	152	207	135	72	50	16
All babies	679,752	814,208	802,610	654,307	530,730	352,893

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The 28 countries listed were summed and checked against the UN's total for every year. The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.