Curaçao is located in the southern Caribbean Sea, 65 km north of Venezuela. It became an autonomous country within the Kingdom of The Netherlands in 2010, having been part of the Netherlands Antilles.
In 2000 the total population of Curaçao was 141 424 inhabitants; by 2023 this figure had risen to 192 077, representing a 35.8% increase. Regarding the country’s demographic profile, in 2023 people over 65 years of age accounted for 15.4% of the total population, an increase of 6.0 percentage points compared to the year 2000. In 2023, there were 108.4 women per 100 men and 90.7 older people (65 years or older) per 100 children under 15 years of age, as can be seen in the country’s population pyramids, distributed by age group and sex (Figure 1). Considering the population between 15 and 64 years of age to be potentially active (i.e., potential participants in the labor force), this group represented 67.7% of the total population of the country in 2023 (130 014 people). When we add these figures to the potentially passive population (32 550 under 15 years of age and 29 513 over 65 years of age), the result is a dependency ratio of 47.7 potentially passive people per 100 potentially active people. This ratio was 54.2 in 2000.
Life expectancy at birth in 2023 was 76.8 years, lower than the average for the Region of the Americas and 3.6 years higher that in 2000.
(Source: Health in the Americas+)
