Trinidad and Tobago: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 649,000 people, so the population is now 2.3 times as large.

The UN projects 15,300 births and 13,900 deaths in 2026, 1,370 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2029.

The median age is 38.2, which is 7.1 years above the world’s 31.1.

17% of the people are under 15 and 13% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2032.

Women have 1.5 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 5.2 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 73.9 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 57.0.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 1.4 million people, 7.5% fewer than now, with a median age of 45.7.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 73.5 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 17.6 more years for women and 14.8 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 19.0 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 37.4.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 898,000, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 418,000 to 1.76 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 113,000 international migrants lived here, 7.5% of the population.

In mid-2024, 324,000 people from here lived in other countries.