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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The population of Trinidad and Tobago now stands at 1.3 million, made up of more men than women.
The population is one-tenth of a percentage point more than it was 10 years ago.
Speaking yesterday at the launch of the 2011 National Population and Housing Census Demographic Report at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Minister of Planning and Development Dr Bhoe Tewarie said this slow growth rate has been occurring for sometime.
"There has been a slowing of the growth rate of the population of Trinidad and Tobago from 1990 to the present time. In the period under review, the decade between 2000 and 2011, the population of Trinidad and Tobago grew by only half per cent, one-tenth of a percentage point more than a decade before," Tewarie explained.
Tewarie said this is the highest population ever recorded for the country since the first census was done in 1851.
He added that 70.4 per cent of the country's population falls between the ages of 15 and 64, which is deemed to be working age, which means only 29.6 per cent of the population is less than 15 years old or more than 65.
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