Trinidad and Tobago is a country made up of two main islands (Trinidad and Tobago) and other smaller islands, located in the far south of the Caribbean, near the northern coast of Venezuela.
In 2000 the total population of Trinidad and Tobago was 1 332 203 inhabitants; by 2023 this figure had risen to 1 534 937, representing a 15.2% increase. Regarding the country’s demographic profile, in 2023 people over 65 years of age accounted for 12% of the total population, an increase of 6.7 percentage points compared to the year 2000. In 2023, there were 102.9 women per 100 men and 63.9 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 69.3% of the total population of the country in 2023 (1 063 007 people). When we add these figures to the potentially passive population (287 975 under 15 years of age and 183 956 over 65 years of age), the result is a dependency ratio of 44.4 potentially passive people per 100 potentially active people. This ratio was 45.2 in 2000.
Life expectancy at birth in 2023 was 74.9 years, lower than the average for the Region of the Americas and 5.8 years higher that in 2000.