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Regional Overview of Caribbean Islands| TABLE 39. CARIBBEAN POPULATION | ||||||||
| Island or | Total (000s) | Incremental rates (% p.a.) | Forecast year 2000 | Density: people/kmē of arable | Economically active in agriculture, %of total population | |||
| island group |
1980 |
1989 |
1980* |
1989 |
(000s) |
land 1980 |
1980 |
1989 |
| Antigua-Barbuda | 75 | 85 | - | 1.6 | 102 | - | - | - |
| Bahamas | 224 | 256 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 303 | 1488 | 3.6 | 2.7 |
| Barbados | 249 | 259 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 273 | 692 | 4.8 | 3.5 |
| Bermuda | 54 | 58 | - | 0.8 | 63 | - | - | - |
| Cuba | 9732 | 10,238 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 10,929 | 185 | 8.7 | 8.4 |
| Dominica | 73 | 80 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 90 | 416 | - | - |
| Dominican Republic | 5697 | 7019 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 9307 | 205 | 13.3 | 11.7 |
| Grenada | 92 | 101 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 113 | 700 | - | - |
| Guadeloupe | 327 | 339 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 354 | 435 | 6.1 | 4.7 |
| Haiti | 5413 | 6383 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 7936 | 425 | 32.0 | 28.8 |
| Jamaica | 2173 | 2478 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 2950 | 463 | 13.6 | 13.4 |
| Martinique | 326 | 330 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 335 | 592 | 5.5 | 3.9 |
| Netherlands Antilles | 238 | 274 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 333 | 162 | - | - |
| Puerto Rico | 3199 | 3650 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 4343 | 652 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| St Lucia | 118 | 134 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 158 | 610 | - | - |
| St Kitts-Nevis | 52 | 56 | - | .09 | 62 | - | - | - |
| St Vincent | 99 | 109 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 123 | 626 | - | - |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1095 | 1264 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1522 | 702 | 3.7 | 3.0 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||
| Totals | 29,236 | 33,113 | - | - | 39,296 | - | - | - |
| Note: * Incremental rates and density data for 1980 from Levine (1981); other figures from, or calculated from, FAO Production Yearbook 1989 (1990). |
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