Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

households/individuals

Kind of data

survey

Frequency of data collection

Quarterly

Sampling procedure

Sample size:

Trinidad and Tobago TT: Educational Attainment: At Least Competed Short-Cycle Tertiary: Population 25+ Years: Total: % Cumulative data was reported at 9.613 % in 2009. This records a decrease from the previous number of 9.833 % for 2008. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Educational Attainment: At Least Competed Short-Cycle Tertiary: Population 25+ Years: Total: % Cumulative data is updated yearly, averaging 9.723 % from Dec 2008 (Median) to 2009, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9.833 % in 2008 and a record low of 9.613 % in 2009. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Educational Attainment: At Least Competed Short-Cycle Tertiary: Population 25+ Years: Total: % Cumulative data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.World Bank: Education Statistics. The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed short-cycle tertiary education.; ; UNESCO Institute for Statistics; ;

In 2023, the total population of Trinidad and Tobago amounted to over 1.53 million. The number of women who lived in Trinidad and Tobago exceeded the number of men by approximately 22,000. Population figures in the southern most island country in the Caribbean show a maintained upward trend at least since 2008.

Abstract

The 2011 Trinidad and Tobago Population and Housing Census was conducted by the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago (CSOTT) during the period 9th January -31st May 2011. Trinidad and Tobago has maintained an unbroken tradition of conducting decennial Censuses dating back to 1851. The census was originally scheduled for 16th May - 30th June 2010, but was postponed when Parliament was prorogued before the Census Order – the legal authority for the conduct of the Census – was passed.

The 2011 Population and Housing Census was conducted as part of the CARICOM Secretariat’s regionally co-ordinated approach to census taking for the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses. The Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago has actively participated as a member of the Regional Census Co-ordinating Committee (RCCC) of CARICOM, in the formulation of the regional strategy to promote the use of uniform concepts and definitions and a common core of questions for the purpose of producing comparable, high-quality data, which can be useful for monitoring social and demographic developments across the region.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• Household;
• Individual.

Universe

Two population totals are provided: the De Facto Count of the Population and the De Jure Count of the Population of Trinidad and Tobago.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

The difficulties in enumerating crime hotspots and gated communities distributed throughout Trinidad and Tobago, led to the extension of the field enumeration exercise.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

The Census Questionnaire included 61 questions organized under 13 sections. The Census Demographic Report covers information collated from the following sections: Characteristics, Internal Migration, Education, Marital Status, Fertility, and International Migration. Subsequent volumes in the series will report on the other sections such as Disability, Chronic Illness, Health, Economic Activity, Information and Communication Technology and Housing.

Cleaning operations

This time around, the CSO employed Scanning Technology using Cardiff Teleform Application Software, instead of the method of direct data entry, which was used in the 2000 Census. The CSO acquired expertise in the use of scanning technology through its collaboration with the FAO for the 2004 Agriculture Census. The Data processing of the 450 000 questionnaires collected was undertaken by a Data Processing team consisting of an Information Technology Specialist, Database Administrator, Network Specialist, Network Technician, Scanning Supervisors, Verifier Supervisors, Scanning Operators Data Verifiers and Data-entry Staff.

Response rate

The 2011 census achieved 89% response rate.

In 2022, 79.9 percent of Trinidad and Tobago's population accessed the internet, up from 55.2 percent in 2010. The country's internet penetration rate is well above the average of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Trinidad and Tobago TT: Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data was reported at 10.200 % in 2022. This stayed constant from the previous number of 10.200 % for 2021. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data is updated yearly, averaging 10.200 % from Dec 2020 (Median) to 2022, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 10.200 % in 2022 and a record low of 10.200 % in 2022. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity in the Population: % of population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics. The percentage of people in the population who live in households classified as severely food insecure. A household is classified as severely food insecure when at least one adult in the household has reported to have been exposed, at times during the year, to several of the most severe experiences described in the FIES questions, such as to have been forced to reduce the quantity of the food, to have skipped meals, having gone hungry, or having to go for a whole day without eating because of a lack of money or other resources.;Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);;

Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.

Data here cover child labor, gender issues, refugees, and asylum seekers. Children in many countries work long hours, often combining studying with work for pay. The data on their paid work are from household surveys conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and national statistical offices. Gender disparities are measured using a compilation of data on key topics such as education, health, labor force participation, and political participation. Data on refugees are from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees complemented by statistics on Palestinian refugees under the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Trinidad and Tobago administrative levels 0 (country) and 1 (regional corporation or municipality) population statistics

REFERENCE YEAR: 2011

INTERIM version combining Tobago parishes into one municipality (P-code TT90) for compatibility with the COD-AB.

These CSV tables are suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Trinidad and Tobago administrative level 0-1 boundaries shapefiles.

Periodicity and timeliness assessment of statistical capacity (scale 0 - 100) in Trinidad and Tobago was reported at 63.33 in 2020, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Trinidad and Tobago - Periodicity and timeliness assessment of statistical capacity (scale 0 - 100) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on March of 2025.

In 2024, the press freedom index of Trinidad and Tobago grew slightly to 76.69, from 78.54 a year earlier. The dual-island country had the second-best press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean that same year. The indicator presents an overview of the plurality and independence of the media and how safe and free it is for journalists to do their job, with lower scores indicating a worse situation for the press and higher scores a better one.

In 2024, Trinidad and Tobago obtained an overall score of 18.4 out of 100 in the Global Innovation Index (GII), ranking in the 108th position of 133 countries. In the period of 2011-2024, Trinidad and Tobago's global innovation highest score was 33.17 in 2013.

Abstract

The Trinidad and Tobago DHS survey--a national-level self-weighting random sample survey--was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (US/AID) and executed by the Family Planning Association of Trinidad and Tobago (FPATT). Technical assisstance was provided by the Demographic and Health Surveys Program at the Institute for Resource Development (IRD), a subsidiary of Westinghouse located in Columbia, Maryland.

The sampling frame for the TTDHS was the Continuous Sample Survey of Population (CSSP), an ongoing survey conducted by the Central Statistical Office based on the 1980 Population and Housing Census.

The TTDHS used a household schedule to collect information on residents of selected households, and to identify women eligible for the individual questionnaire. The individual questionnaire was based on DHS's Model "A" Questionnaire for High Contraceptive Prevalence countries, which was modified for use in Trinidad and Tobago. It covered four main areas: (1) background information on the respondent, her partner and marital status, (2) fertility and fertility preferences, (3) contraception, and (4) the health of children.

The short term objective of the Trinidad and Tobago Demographic and Health Survey (TTDHS) is to collect and analyse data on the demographic characteristics of women in the reproductive years, and the health status of their young children. Policymakers and programme managers in public and private agencies will be able to utilize the data in designing and administering programmes.

The long term objective of the project is to enhance the ability of organisations involved in the TTDHS to undertake surveys of excellent technical quality.

Geographic coverage

National

Analysis unit

• Household
• Women age 15-49

Universe

The population covered by the 1988 TTDHS is defined as the universe of all women age 15-49.

Kind of data

Sample survey data

Sampling procedure

The sample for the TTDHS was based on the Continuous Sample Survey of Population (CSSP), used by the Central Statistical Office since 1968, and redesigned on the basis of the 1980 Population and Housing Census. The country is divided into 14 domains of study, comprising a total of 1,638 enumeration districts (EDs). Results from the 1980 Census indicated that some EDs were too large (more than 300 households) and some too small (fewer than 30 households) to be appropriate primary sampling units (PSUs) for the TFDHS. Therefore, the largest units were further subdivided, and the smaller units combined with contiguous ones for the CSSP sample.

The CSSP sample is selected in two stages. In the first, PSUs are systematically selected, with probability proportional to size (size equals the number of households in the PSU). Following an operation to list all households in each selected PSU, individual households are selected, with probability of selection inversely proportional to the PSU's size.

The CSSP grand sample, which provides an overall sampling fraction of one household in forty (1/40) has been divided into 9 sub-samples, each with an overall sampling fraction of one in three-hundred sixty (1/360). Each CSSP survey round, conducted quarterly, uses three of the nine sub-samples, with an overall sampling fraction of one in one-hundred twenty (1/120).

The DHS sample was taken from the CSSP sample selected for the January-March 1987 quarter. The main objectives of the DHS sample were: - a self-weighting sample of households, - a sample take in each selected PSU of about 25 women aged 15-49, and - a total of 4,000 completed interviews with women aged 15-49.

To achieve this sample size, 5,000 households were selected. This figure assumes an average of one eligible woman per household, and 294,400 eligible women nationwide, giving an overall sampling fraction of one in sixty (1/60). It also allows for 10 percent non-response at both the household and the individual interview level, commensurate with CSO experience in similar recent surveys. In total, 178 PSUs were selected throughout Trinidad and Tobago.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face

Research instrument

The individual questionnaire was based on DHS's Model "A" Questionnaire for High Contraceptive Prevalence countries, which was modified for use in Trinidad and Tobago. It covered four main areas: (1) background information on the respondent, her partner and marital status, (2) fertility and fertility preferences, (3) contraception, and (4) the health of children.

The DHS model "A" questionnaire was adapted for use in Trinidad and Tobago, and pretested during February 1987. Thirteen pretest interviewers were trained for two weeks by FPATI', CSO, and IRD staff, and carded out two days of interviews. The questionnaire was further modified based on pretest results and interviewer comments.

Cleaning operations

The data processing staff consisted of a chief editor, 3 data entry clerks, and a control clerk who logged in questionnaires when they reached the office. All data entry staff completed the main interviewer training, in addition to data processing instruction by IRD staff. Data entry, editing, and tabulations were performed on microcomputers using the Integrated System for Survey Analysis (ISSA) programme, developed by IRD. The system performed range, skip, and consistency checks upon data entry, so that relatively little machine or manual editing was required. The chief editor was responsible for supervising data entry, and for resolving inconsistencies in the questionnaires detected during secondary machine editing.

Response rate

4,122 households were successfully interviewed, out of the 4,799 selected for the sample. The household response rate was 94 percent. This represents households for which the interview was successfully completed out of 4,371 households for which an interview could have been conducted. This latter group includes households not interviewed due to the absence of a competent respondent, refusal, or the interviewer not finding the selected household. Among the 677 selected households which were not interviewed, 604 were missed because of contact difficulties: addresses not found, houses vacant, or those in which the occupants were not at home during repeated visits. Fewer than one percent of households refused to be interviewed.

The household questionnaires identified 4,196 women eligible for the individual questionnaire. This figure represents a yield of one eligible woman per household, which was the average expected. Questionnaires were completed for 3,806 women. The response rate at the individual level was 92 percent, which represents the proportion of interviews successfully completed out of the total number of women identified by the household schedule. The overall response rate, the product of response rates at the household and individual levels is 87 percent.

Contact was not made with 199 eligible women, either because the respondent was not at home during any of three visits by the interviewer, or was temporarily away from the household. Sixty-eight cases were missed due to "Other" reasons, and 83 women refused to be interviewed.

The response rates for the urban and rural areas were similar. In the urban areas, the overall response rate was 86 percent, compared with 88 percent for the rural areas.

Sampling error estimates

Sampling errors, on the other hand, can be evaluated statistically. The sample of women selected in the 'IIDHS is only one of many samples of the same size that could have been drawn from the population using the same design. Each sample would have yielded slightly different results from the sample actually selected. The variability observed among all possible samples constitutes sampling error, which can be estimated from survey results (though not measured exact/y).

Sampling error is usually measured in terms of the "standard error" (SE) of a particular statistic (mean, percentage, etc.), which is the square root of the variance of the statistic across all possible samples of equal size and design. The standard error can be used to calculate confidence intervals within which one can be reasonably sure the true value of the variable for the whole population falls. For example, for any given statistic calculated from a sample survey, the value of that same statistic as measured in 95 percent of all possible samples of identical size and design will fall within a range of plus or minus two times the standard error of that statistic.

If simple random sampling had been used to select women for the TTDHS, it would have been possible to use straightforward formulas for calculating sampling errors. However, the TTDHS sample design used two stages and clusters of households, and it was necessary to use more complex formulas. Therefore, the computer package CLUSTERS, developed for the World Fertility Survey, was used to compute sampling errors.

In addition to the standard errors, CLUSTERS computes the design effect (DEFT) for each estimate, which is defined as the ratio between the standard error using the given sample design, and the standard error that would result if a simple random sample had been used. A DEFT value of 1 indicates that the sample design is as efficient as a simple random sample; a value greater than 1 indicates that the increase in the sampling error is due to the use of a more complex and less statistically efficient design.

Sampling errors are presented in Table B.1 of the Final Report for 35 variables considered to be of primary interest. Results are presented for the whole

The youth unemployment rate in Trinidad and Tobago declined to 10.12 percent in 2023. Nevertheless, the last two years recorded a significantly higher youth unemployment rate than the preceding years.The youth unemployment rate refers to the share of the economically active population aged 15 to 24 currently without work but in search of employment. The youth unemployment rate does not include economically inactive persons such as the long-term unemployed or full-time students.Find more key insights for the youth unemployment rate in countries like St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Haiti.

Trinidad and Tobago TT: Population: Growth data was reported at 0.305 % in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.357 % for 2016. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Population: Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 0.666 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.264 % in 1960 and a record low of 0.148 % in 1998. Trinidad and Tobago TT: Population: Growth data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Trinidad and Tobago – Table TT.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage . Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.; ; Derived from total population. Population source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2017 Revision, (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.; Weighted average;

Discover the latest eCommerce statistics in Trinidad and Tobago for 2025, including store count by category and platform, estimated sales amount by platform and category, products sold by platform and category, and total app spend by platform and category. Gain valuable insights into the retail landscape in Trinidad and Tobago, uncovering the distribution of stores across categories and platforms.

The urban indicators data available here are analyzed, compiled and published by UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Observatory which supports governments, local authorities and civil society organizations to develop urban indicators, data and statistics. Urban statistics are collected through household surveys and censuses conducted by national statistics authorities. Global Urban Observatory team analyses and compiles urban indicators statistics from surveys and censuses. Additionally, Local urban observatories collect, compile and analyze urban data for national policy development. Population statistics are produced by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, World Urbanization Prospects.

In 2024, the homicide rate in Trinidad and Tobago stood at around 45.7 homicide victims per 100,000 population. The murder levels increased 8.1 points compared to a year earlier, when 37.6 homicides were registered per 100,000 inhabitants. In Latin America and the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago had one of the highest homicide rates that year.

Trinidad and Tobago recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 53 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2023. This dataset provides - Trinidad and Tobago Government Debt To GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Trinidad and Tobago import data: Enhancing economic growth through diverse trade, investing in key sectors, and fostering global partnerships.

The statistic shows the value of goods imported to Trinidad and Tobago from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, goods worth around 8.16 billion U.S. dollars were imported to Trinidad and Tobago.