Country or area · Caribbean · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Dominica population

Dominica population now

65,425

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 62,511–68,059.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 66,511

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 65,509; 95% range, 31 Dec: 62,511–68,059
Median age: 37.6
Aged 65+: 13.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024

male female projection · one cell = 20 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

DMA · 1950–2100 · in brief

Dominica in numbers

Dominica had 66,511 people in mid-2023, the 206th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 1.3 times its 1950 population of 50,196.

Its population peaked in 1980 at 73,083 and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 49,110 in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 28,242 to 124 thousand.

2017 was the last year births kept up with deaths. Every year since has had more deaths than births, as does every projected year to 2100.

The median age was 18.6 in 1950 and 36.6 in 2023; the projection has 49.0 in 2100. 12.7% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 29.0% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2015 at 48,358; in 2023 it was 45,990.

Among countries it ranks 206th in 2023, 206th in 2050 and 208th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Andorra in 2093. It is overtaken by Guernsey in 2029, the Faroe Islands in 2051 and Gibraltar in 2100.

Population, mid-2023: 66,511
Rank by population, 2023: 206 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.47% · −316 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 89
Land area, 2023: 750 km²
Births, 2023: 738
Deaths, 2023: 849
Net migration, 2023: −199
Children per woman, 2023: 1.48
Median age, 2023: 36.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 71.1 years
In a city, 2025: 0 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 50,196
Projected, mid-2050: 63,192
Projected, mid-2100: 49,110

DMA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. 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: Dominica, 1950–2100

Dominica: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	50,110		1,778	1,181	5.24	44.5
1951	estimate	50,282		1,851	1,113	5.37	46.3
1952	estimate	50,600		1,927	1,055	5.50	48.2
1953	estimate	51,075		2,009	1,004	5.64	50.0
1954	estimate	51,691		2,096	962	5.77	51.7
1955	estimate	52,476		2,187	921	5.91	53.4
1956	estimate	53,428		2,276	885	6.03	55.0
1957	estimate	54,543		2,356	854	6.12	56.5
1958	estimate	55,849		2,420	828	6.17	57.9
1959	estimate	57,317		2,468	806	6.18	59.1
1960	estimate	58,898		2,507	788	6.18	60.1
1961	estimate	59,846		2,518	756	6.16	61.0
1962	estimate	60,571		2,510	723	6.12	61.9
1963	estimate	61,325		2,495	699	6.08	62.6
1964	estimate	62,153		2,471	679	6.03	63.3
1965	estimate	63,022		2,440	662	5.95	63.9
1966	estimate	63,987		2,402	649	5.86	64.5
1967	estimate	65,027		2,358	643	5.74	64.9
1968	estimate	66,142		2,309	636	5.59	65.3
1969	estimate	67,322		2,260	631	5.41	65.7
1970	estimate	68,547		2,200	625	5.21	66.2
1971	estimate	69,269		2,154	606	4.99	66.8
1972	estimate	69,795		2,076	580	4.67	67.5
1973	estimate	70,325		1,957	558	4.28	68.1
1974	estimate	70,844		1,809	543	3.84	68.6
1975	estimate	71,337		1,672	530	3.46	69.1
1976	estimate	71,804		1,575	525	3.19	69.4
1977	estimate	72,230		1,521	524	3.02	69.7
1978	estimate	72,583		1,515	523	2.96	70.1
1979	estimate	72,864		1,545	563	2.96	69.2
1980	estimate	73,054		1,616	526	3.04	71.0
1981	estimate	73,112		1,701	531	3.11	71.5
1982	estimate	72,860		1,783	533	3.17	71.8
1983	estimate	72,515		1,834	532	3.18	72.0
1984	estimate	72,214		1,852	543	3.15	71.9
1985	estimate	71,898		1,854	552	3.12	71.9
1986	estimate	71,590		1,856	571	3.08	71.7
1987	estimate	71,223		1,850	593	3.06	71.4
1988	estimate	70,823		1,842	620	3.06	71.0
1989	estimate	70,392		1,824	646	3.06	70.7
1990	estimate	69,915		1,808	669	3.09	70.5
1991	estimate	69,339		1,794	691	3.15	70.4
1992	estimate	69,254		1,804	694	3.18	70.5
1993	estimate	69,396		1,816	685	3.20	70.6
1994	estimate	69,469		1,678	676	2.96	70.8
1995	estimate	69,484		1,524	671	2.71	70.8
1996	estimate	69,453		1,418	665	2.55	71.0
1997	estimate	69,367		1,323	662	2.41	71.2
1998	estimate	69,231		1,255	661	2.31	71.3
1999	estimate	69,018		1,311	663	2.46	71.5
2000	estimate	68,721		1,228	667	2.35	71.7
2001	estimate	68,301		1,230	674	2.40	71.9
2002	estimate	68,275		1,107	678	2.16	71.9
2003	estimate	68,459		1,069	682	2.08	71.9
2004	estimate	68,603		1,046	687	2.02	72.0
2005	estimate	68,695		1,032	693	2.00	72.0
2006	estimate	68,774		1,070	705	2.07	72.0
2007	estimate	68,839		1,041	722	2.02	71.9
2008	estimate	68,856		1,010	738	1.97	71.9
2009	estimate	68,852		981	762	1.92	71.8
2010	estimate	68,876		963	793	1.89	71.7
2011	estimate	68,841		947	826	1.86	71.5
2012	estimate	69,266		959	791	1.83	71.4
2013	estimate	68,969		927	817	1.78	71.2
2014	estimate	70,461		963	706	1.71	71.2
2015	estimate	70,285		923	766	1.65	70.0
2016	estimate	70,535		899	722	1.58	71.2
2017	estimate	68,678		809	933	1.54	68.6
2018	estimate	68,315		793	853	1.52	71.4
2019	estimate	68,034		781	856	1.50	71.3
2020	estimate	67,727		771	859	1.50	71.3
2021	estimate	67,419		756	962	1.48	69.8
2022	estimate	66,985		745	863	1.48	71.1
2023	estimate	66,668		738	849	1.48	71.1
2024	estimate	66,353		727	836	1.48	71.3
2025	projection	66,057	65,111–66,919	713	825	1.47	71.5
2026	projection	65,686	63,817–67,468	700	815	1.46	71.6
2027	projection	65,336	62,511–68,059	688	808	1.46	71.8
2028	projection	64,980	61,212–68,827	675	802	1.46	72.0
2029	projection	64,636	59,900–69,564	663	799	1.46	72.1
2030	projection	64,307	58,683–70,456	653	798	1.46	72.3
2031	projection	64,031	57,303–71,661	645	797	1.46	72.5
2032	projection	63,869	56,173–72,526	639	799	1.46	72.6
2033	projection	63,784	55,228–73,824	634	801	1.46	72.8
2034	projection	63,765	54,224–75,132	632	805	1.46	72.9
2035	projection	63,760	53,062–76,552	631	810	1.46	73.1
2036	projection	63,763	52,479–77,582	629	814	1.46	73.3
2037	projection	63,761	51,661–78,518	627	818	1.47	73.4
2038	projection	63,778	50,813–79,578	626	822	1.47	73.6
2039	projection	63,790	50,127–80,636	625	827	1.47	73.7
2040	projection	63,796	49,629–81,750	624	832	1.47	73.9
2041	projection	63,802	49,247–82,918	623	837	1.48	74.0
2042	projection	63,802	48,351–83,903	622	842	1.48	74.2
2043	projection	63,760	47,886–84,948	619	846	1.48	74.3
2044	projection	63,704	47,340–85,775	615	850	1.49	74.5
2045	projection	63,652	46,507–87,334	611	854	1.49	74.7
2046	projection	63,605	45,845–88,338	606	857	1.49	74.8
2047	projection	63,544	45,377–89,578	601	860	1.49	74.9
2048	projection	63,459	44,792–90,563	596	862	1.49	75.1
2049	projection	63,358	44,518–91,675	591	863	1.50	75.2
2050	projection	63,254	43,972–92,033	585	864	1.50	75.4
2051	projection	63,130	43,417–93,023	580	864	1.50	75.6
2052	projection	62,993	42,755–93,986	574	864	1.50	75.7
2053	projection	62,824	42,023–95,300	568	863	1.50	75.9
2054	projection	62,675	41,527–96,546	563	862	1.50	76.0
2055	projection	62,518	41,039–96,966	558	860	1.51	76.2
2056	projection	62,334	40,587–97,660	553	859	1.50	76.3
2057	projection	62,158	40,290–98,436	548	858	1.51	76.5
2058	projection	61,951	39,638–98,843	544	858	1.51	76.6
2059	projection	61,749	39,325–99,914	541	857	1.51	76.8
2060	projection	61,543	38,566–100,982	538	856	1.51	76.9
2061	projection	61,314	37,974–102,168	535	855	1.51	77.1
2062	projection	61,087	37,827–102,765	532	854	1.51	77.2
2063	projection	60,855	37,892–103,532	529	853	1.51	77.4
2064	projection	60,642	37,675–103,797	527	854	1.51	77.5
2065	projection	60,392	36,876–103,433	526	854	1.52	77.7
2066	projection	60,140	36,535–104,390	524	855	1.52	77.8
2067	projection	59,906	36,124–104,552	522	856	1.52	78.0
2068	projection	59,648	35,841–105,111	520	857	1.52	78.1
2069	projection	59,374	35,321–107,093	518	857	1.53	78.3
2070	projection	59,114	34,967–108,846	516	859	1.53	78.4
2071	projection	58,814	34,445–109,886	513	859	1.53	78.6
2072	projection	58,517	33,898–111,150	510	860	1.53	78.7
2073	projection	58,214	33,424–111,207	507	860	1.53	78.9
2074	projection	57,899	32,946–112,158	502	860	1.53	79.0
2075	projection	57,590	32,658–111,724	498	860	1.53	79.2
2076	projection	57,271	32,294–113,467	495	859	1.54	79.3
2077	projection	56,951	31,997–114,046	490	857	1.54	79.5
2078	projection	56,656	31,924–114,615	486	855	1.53	79.6
2079	projection	56,327	31,767–115,132	482	851	1.53	79.8
2080	projection	56,002	31,529–116,333	477	847	1.54	79.9
2081	projection	55,680	31,294–118,328	474	843	1.54	80.0
2082	projection	55,383	30,987–119,136	470	838	1.54	80.2
2083	projection	55,068	30,825–120,541	466	833	1.54	80.3
2084	projection	54,751	30,647–120,371	462	827	1.54	80.5
2085	projection	54,435	30,431–120,579	458	821	1.54	80.6
2086	projection	54,105	30,444–120,621	454	815	1.54	80.7
2087	projection	53,772	30,148–121,270	451	809	1.54	80.9
2088	projection	53,436	29,787–121,232	447	804	1.54	81.0
2089	projection	53,077	29,879–121,395	442	798	1.54	81.2
2090	projection	52,747	29,909–123,252	439	793	1.54	81.3
2091	projection	52,389	29,498–123,326	435	788	1.55	81.4
2092	projection	52,065	29,189–122,461	432	783	1.55	81.5
2093	projection	51,750	29,111–122,907	429	779	1.55	81.7
2094	projection	51,422	29,039–124,239	427	774	1.55	81.8
2095	projection	51,087	28,886–122,635	424	770	1.55	82.0
2096	projection	50,740	28,639–123,587	421	766	1.55	82.1
2097	projection	50,414	28,452–123,151	418	762	1.55	82.2
2098	projection	50,064	28,392–123,136	416	758	1.55	82.3
2099	projection	49,690	28,311–123,447	412	754	1.56	82.5
2100	projection	49,300	28,242–124,296	408	749	1.56	82.6

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

Dominica: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	348	337
1	350	340
2	353	342
3	356	345
4	360	348
5	364	354
6	368	359
7	371	364
8	376	369
9	392	386
10	398	403
11	411	420
12	422	428
13	430	428
14	432	425
15	422	422
16	427	446
17	420	458
18	408	452
19	408	446
20	424	436
21	436	424
22	424	417
23	406	424
24	422	443
25	456	459
26	464	458
27	454	442
28	456	440
29	470	466
30	491	496
31	524	528
32	554	554
33	577	563
34	576	559
35	556	546
36	528	532
37	510	515
38	502	504
39	500	499
40	504	492
41	502	492
42	493	487
43	480	472
44	466	444
45	446	416
46	422	392
47	402	365
48	382	352
49	372	355
50	379	364
51	397	385
52	418	410
53	440	434
54	460	455
55	473	466
56	476	468
57	470	460
58	460	456
59	451	458
60	438	446
61	423	423
62	406	405
63	387	384
64	376	367
65	369	354
66	362	342
67	347	328
68	319	312
69	292	296
70	268	276
71	248	257
72	229	237
73	210	220
74	192	204
75	175	188
76	158	174
77	144	163
78	132	152
79	119	137
80	103	126
81	90	116
82	78	106
83	67	96
84	57	86
85	48	76
86	40	67
87	32	58
88	27	50
89	22	43
90	18	36
91	14	30
92	11	24
93	8	18
94	6	13
95	4	10
96	3	7
97	2	5
98	2	4
99	1	2
100+	1	4

DMA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Dominica, 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.

DMA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Dominica

Dominica had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2015: 48,357 people aged 15–64, against 45,990 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

26 children

18 aged 65+

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 37 years: 2013–2049.

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

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

DMA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Dominica, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Dominica loses 209 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 46 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 5 people a year

020406080+

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.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 1,376 (2013); its biggest loss, 2,032 (2016).

In 2024, 8,440 people living in Dominica had been born in another country, 13 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in Dominica

Of every 100 babies born in Dominica in 2023, 10 had a mother under 20, 73 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 17 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 14 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
14 · 70 · 16

2023
10 · 73 · 17

2050 · projected
8 · 71 · 21

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: 738
Average age when women have a baby: 28.2 years; 28.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 34; 108 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Dominica by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	7	12	7	3	1	0
15–19	241	361	182	75	44	6
20–24	476	533	254	153	104	42
25–29	447	383	319	195	155	115
30–34	319	195	279	189	160	144
35–39	199	106	148	96	91	80
40–44	71	64	37	26	29	19
45–49	17	17	2	1	1	2
50–54	1	1	0	0	0	0
All babies	1,778	1,672	1,228	738	585	408

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

DMA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Dominica

At the end of 2025, Dominica was hosting 5 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad5
Dominica nationals abroad739

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 20 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Dominica living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 207 people from Dominica asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

DMA · of every 100 people

How people live in Dominica

Of every 100 people in Dominica in 2025, 44 lived in a town or suburb and 56 in the countryside.

towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 18 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

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

DMA · cities · 2025

Cities in Dominica

No place in Dominica 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.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Dominica are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries 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.