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Demographics of Grenada

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{{Infobox place demographics|place=Grenada|image=File:Grenada single age population pyramid 2020.png|image_size=350|caption=Population pyramid of Grenada in 2020|size_of_population=113,949 (2022 est.)|nation=Grenadian|major_ethnic=African descent (82.4%)|age_0–14_years=23.23%|age_65_years=10.89%|growth=0.32% (2022 est.)|birth=13.94 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)|death=8.31 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)|net_migration=-2.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)|sr_at_birth=1.1 male(s)/female|sr_under_15=1.09 male(s)/female|total_mf_ratio=1.03 male(s)/female (2022 est.)|sr_65_years_over=0.69 male(s)/female|infant_mortality=9.4 deaths/1,000 live births|life=75.74 years|life_male=73.13 years|life_female=78.6 years|fertility=1.93 children born/woman (2022 est.)}}

The demography of the people of Grenada, Grenadians {{IPAc-en|g|r|ə|ˈ|n|eɪ|d|iː|ən|z}}, includes population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

{{Historical populations

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|title = Census population and average annual growth rate

|percentages = pagr

|1871 | 37684

|1881 | 42403

|1891 | 53209

|1901 | 63438

|1911 | 66750

|1921 | 66302

|1946 | 72387

|1960 | 88677

|1970 | 92775

|1981 | 89088

|1991 | 85123

|2001 | 103137

|2011 | 105539

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Population

According to the 2011 census Grenada has 105,539 inhabitants. The estimated population of {{UN_Population|Year}} is {{UN_Population|Grenada}} ({{UN_Population|source}}).

=Structure of the population=

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class="wikitable"
width="80pt"|Age Group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80pt"|Female

! width="80pt"|Total

! width="80pt"|%

align="right" | Total

| align="right" | 56 222

| align="right" | 55 245

| align="right" | 111 467

| align="right" | 100

align="right" | 0–4

| align="right" | 4 282

| align="right" | 3 872

| align="right" | 8 154

| align="right" | 7.32

align="right" | 5–9

| align="right" | 3 793

| align="right" | 3 634

| align="right" | 7 427

| align="right" | 6.66

align="right" | 10–14

| align="right" | 4 392

| align="right" | 4 276

| align="right" | 8 668

| align="right" | 7.78

align="right" | 15–19

| align="right" | 4 869

| align="right" | 4 818

| align="right" | 9 687

| align="right" | 8.69

align="right" | 20–24

| align="right" | 5 027

| align="right" | 4 797

| align="right" | 9 824

| align="right" | 8.81

align="right" | 25–29

| align="right" | 4 758

| align="right" | 4 722

| align="right" | 9 480

| align="right" | 8.50

align="right" | 30–34

| align="right" | 3 596

| align="right" | 3 514

| align="right" | 7 110

| align="right" | 6.38

align="right" | 35–39

| align="right" | 3 424

| align="right" | 3 130

| align="right" | 6 554

| align="right" | 5.88

align="right" | 40–44

| align="right" | 3 120

| align="right" | 2 904

| align="right" | 6 024

| align="right" | 5.40

align="right" | 45–49

| align="right" | 3 416

| align="right" | 3 198

| align="right" | 6 614

| align="right" | 5.93

align="right" | 50–54

| align="right" | 3 179

| align="right" | 3 195

| align="right" | 6 374

| align="right" | 5.72

align="right" | 55–59

| align="right" | 2 455

| align="right" | 2 231

| align="right" | 4 686

| align="right" | 4.20

align="right" | 60–64

| align="right" | 1 806

| align="right" | 1 765

| align="right" | 3 571

| align="right" | 3.20

align="right" | 65–69

| align="right" | 1 261

| align="right" | 1 497

| align="right" | 2 758

| align="right" | 2.47

align="right" | 70–74

| align="right" | 1 106

| align="right" | 1 287

| align="right" | 2 393

| align="right" | 2.15

align="right" | 75–79

| align="right" | 732

| align="right" | 999

| align="right" | 1 731

| align="right" | 1.55

align="right" | 80–84

| align="right" | 417

| align="right" | 695

| align="right" | 1 112

| align="right" | 1.00

align="right" | 85–89

| align="right" | 168

| align="right" | 359

| align="right" | 527

| align="right" | 0.47

align="right" | 90+

| align="right" | 78

| align="right" | 197

| align="right" | 275

| align="right" | 0.25

width="50"|Age group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80"|Female

! width="80"|Total

! width="50"|Percent

align="right" | 0–14

| align="right" | 12 467

| align="right" | 11 782

| align="right" | 24 249

| align="right" | 21.75

align="right" | 15–64

| align="right" | 39 993

| align="right" | 38 429

| align="right" | 78 422

| align="right" | 70.35

align="right" | 65+

| align="right" | 3 762

| align="right" | 5 034

| align="right" | 8 796

| align="right" | 7.89

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Vital statistics

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class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
! width="70pt"|Average population [http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm#2001 United nations. Demographic Yearbooks]. 2001

! width="70pt"|Live births

! width="70pt"|Deaths

! width="70pt"|Natural change

! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|Total fertility rate[http://caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/GD.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916004635/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/GD.pdf|date=2012-09-16}} Demographic Profile Grenada

! width="70pt"|Infant mortality rate

1950

| 77,000

|2,962

1,0561,906

|38.6

13.824.9
1951

| 77,000

|3,037

1,2761,761

|39.6

16.723.0
1952

| 77,000

|3,119

1,2551,864

|40.4

16.324.2
1953

| 78,000

|3,283

1,0842,199

|42.0

13.928.2
1954

| 79,000

|3,507

7932,714

|44.2

10.034.2
1955

| 81,000

|3,919

1,2052,714

|48.4

14.933.5
1956

| 83,000

|3,627

1,1792,448

|43.8

14.229.6
1957

| 85,000

|4,664

9083,756

|55.1

10.744.4
1958

| 86,000

|4,253

9733,280

|49.2

11.237.9
1959

| 88,000

|4,115

9193,196

|46.6

10.436.2
1960

| 90,000

|4,016

1,0322,984

|44.7

11.533.2
1961

| 91,000

|3,691

1,0222,669

|40.4

11.229.2
1962

| 92,000

|3,419

8402,579

|37.0

9.127.9
1963

| 93,000

|3,445

8272,618

|36.9

8.928.0
1964

| 94,000

|3,374

8042,570

|35.9

8.527.3
1965

| 95,000

|2,968

8222,146

|31.4

8.722.7
1966

| 95,000

|2,820

8521,968

|29.7

9.020.7
1967

| 95,000

|2,816

7862,030

|29.7

8.321.4
1968

| 95,000

|2,994

8222,172

|31.6

8.722.9
1969

| 95,000

|2,757

7681,989

|29.1

8.121.0
1970

| 94,000

|2,741

7431,998

|29.0

7.921.2
1971

| 94,000

|2,879

7392,140

|30.6

7.822.7
1972

| 94,000

|2,939

6602,279

|31.3

7.024.3
1973

| 94,000

|2,933

7262,207

|31.3

7.823.6
1974

| 93,000

|2,734

7342,000

|29.4

7.921.5
1975

| 92,000

|2,890

6192,271

|31.3

6.724.6
1976

| 91,000

|2,712

6782,034

|29.7

7.422.2
1977

| 90,000

|2,628

8061,822

|29.1

8.920.2
1978

| 89,000

|2,521

7651,756

|28.3

8.619.7
1979

| 89,000

|2,664

7391,925

|30.1

8.321.7
1993

| 97,056

|2,220

7451,475

|22.6

7.615.0
1994

| 97,793

|2,254

7771,477

|22.7

7.814.9
1995

| 98,540

|2,286

8071,479

|22.8

8.014.8

|

| 12.7

1996

| 98,921

|2,096

7821,314

|20.8

7.813.0

|

| 14.3

1997

| 99,516

|2,191

7071,484

|21.7

7.014.7

|

| 14.1

1998

| 100,100

|1,938

8191,119

|19.1

8.111.0

|

| 19.1

1999

| 100,703

|1,791

794997

|17.7

7.89.8

|

| 15.2

2000

| 101,308

|1,883

7651,118

|18.5

7.511.0

|

| 14.3

2001

| 103,143

|1,899

7271,172

|18.6

7.111.5

|

| 17.4

2002

| 104,068

|1,756

887869

|16.9

8.58.4

|

| 20.5

2003

| 104,769

| 1,851

8101,041

| 17.7

7.710.0

|

| 11.9

2004

| 104,712

| 1,868

884984

| 17.8

8.49.4

|

| 9.6

2005

| 104,441

|1,804

834970

|17.3

8.09.3

|2.2

| 9.4

2006

| 104,708

|1,663

765898

|15.9

7.38.6

|1.9

| 12.6

2007

| 104,981

|1,825

7401,085

|17.4

7.010.4

|2.2

| 7.1

2008

| 105,298

|1,809

842967

|17.2

8.09.2

|2.1

| 5.0

2009

| 105,175

| 1,800

7811,019

| 17.1

7.49.7

|2.0

| 7.8

2010

| 105,038

| 1,709

831878

| 16.3

7.98.4

|1.9

| 12.3

2011

| 106,667

| 1,812

7951,017

| 17.0

7.59.5

|2.177

| 15.5

2012

| 107,599

| 1,661

857804

| 15.4

8.07.5

|1.924

| 13.2

2013

| 108,580

| 1,838

8221,016

| 16.9

7.69.4

|2.129

| 17.4

2014

| 109,374

| 1,750

958792

| 16.0

8.87.2

|2.003

| 18.9

2015

| 110,096

| 1,694

869825

| 15.4

7.97.5

|1.925

| 16.5

2016

| 110,910

| 1,577

898679

| 14.2

8.16.1

|1.788

| 15.9

2017

| 111,467

| 1,398

885513

| 12.5

7.94.6

|1.705

| 24.3

2018

| 111,959

| 1,520

965555

| 13.6

8.65.0

|1.693

| 15.8

2019

| 112,579

| 1,575

981594

| 14.0

8.75.3

|

| 11.4

2020

| 113,135

| 1,540

1,033507

| 13.5

8.94.6

|

| 20.1

2021

| 113,703

| 1,611

1,273338

| 14.2

11.23.0

|

| 18.6

2022

|

| 1,469

1,136333

|

|

| 19.7

2023

|

| 1,380

1,068312

|

|

| 12.3

=Fertility rate=

The fertility rate in Grenada was 2.21 in 2013.

Ethnic groups

The vast majority of the population of Grenada are of African descent (89.4% at the 2001 census). There is also a significant mixed population (8.2%), along with a small European origin minority (0.4%), East Indians (1.6%), and there are small numbers of Lebanese/Syrians (0.04%) and Chinese (0.02%).

=Amerindians=

Grenada has a small population of pre-Columbian native Caribs. According to the 2001 census there are only 125 Caribs remaining (0.12% of the total population).

Languages

Apart from a 114-year period of French occupancy (1649–1763) English has been the country's official language. However, over time the minority of the population use a colloquial spoken language considered to be either English-based creole languages or (Grenadian Creole English) and which is said to reflect the African, European and Indian heritage of the nation.Alleyne, Mervyn C. "A Linguistic Perspective on the Caribbean", Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1985

The Grenadian creoles originally influenced by French, now contain elements from a variety of Grenadian Creole and a little of the African languages. Grenadian Creole French is mainly spoken in smaller rural areas, but today it can only be heard in a few small pockets of the society. Grenadian Creole French is mainly known as Patois and may have similarities to the Saint Lucian Creole French.

It is believed that the one-time native or indigenous languages were Iñeri and Karina.

Religion

Historically the religious makeup of the islands of Grenada covers the period from first European occupation in the 17th century. This has always been predominantly Christian and largely Roman Catholic (due to the first occupants being French) and from the 1891 census we get a snapshot of the population and its religious proclivities - over half were Roman Catholic (55%), a third were Church of England (36%), others listed were Wesleyan (6%) and Presbyterian (0.88%).

More recently, according to the government's 2011 information, 85.2% percent of the population of Grenada is considered Christian, 7.7% is non-Christian and 7% has no religious belief. Roughly one third of Christians are Roman Catholics (36% of the total population), a reflection of early French influence on the island, and one half are Protestant (49.2%).

Anglicanism constitutes the largest Protestant group, with about 11.5% of the population. Pentecostals are the second largest group (about 11.3%), followed by Seventh-day Adventists (approximately 10.5% of the population). Other estimates include Baptists (2.9%), Church of God (2.6%), Methodists (1.8%), Evangelicals (1.6%) Jehovah's Witnesses (1.1%), and Brethren Christian (0.5%).

The number of non-Christians is small. These religious groups include the Rastafarian Movement (1.1% of the population), Hinduism (0.2%) and Muslims (0.3%).

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://stats.gov.gd/}} – Central Statistical Office Grenada, Cariaccou, and Petit Martinique
  • [https://caricom.org/country_profiles/grenada/ Grenada, Cariaccou, and Petit Martinique profile] – Caribbean Community Statistics

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