Population of Antigua and Barbuda, Data of FAO, year 2005; Number of inhabitants in thousands.
According to the 2011 census the estimated resident population of Antigua and Barbuda was 86,295.[2]
The estimated population of 2021 is 93,219 (the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects[3][4]).
Structure of the population
Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 27.V.2011): [5]
Age Group
Male
Female
Total
%
Total
40 986
44 581
85 567
100
0–4
3 361
3 262
6 623
7.74
5–9
3 272
3 188
6 460
7.55
10–14
3 690
3 638
7 329
8.57
15–19
3 554
3 519
7 073
8.27
20–24
3 206
3 418
6 624
7.74
25–29
3 135
3 512
6 647
7.77
30–34
3 101
3 516
6 617
7.73
35–39
3 049
3 699
6 748
7.89
40–44
3 124
3 588
6 712
7.84
45–49
2 893
3 348
6 241
7.29
50–54
2 416
2 694
5 110
5.97
55–59
1 763
1 957
3 721
4.35
60–64
1 398
1 569
2 968
3.47
65–69
1 066
1 172
2 238
2.62
70–74
690
810
1 500
1.75
75–79
527
654
1 181
1.38
80–84
331
520
850
0.99
85–89
214
298
512
0.60
90–94
72
122
193
0.23
95+
27
57
84
0.10
Age group
Male
Female
Total
Percent
0–14
10 323
10 088
20 411
23.85
15–64
27 640
30 820
58 460
68.32
65+
2 927
3 633
6 560
7.67
unknown
96
40
136
0.16
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2021) (Based on the results of the 2011 Population Census.): [5]
The population of Antigua and Barbuda, is predominantly black (91.0%) or mixed (4.4%).[1] 1.9% of the population is white and 0.7% East Indian. There is also a small Amerindian population: 177 in 1991 and 214 in 2001 (0.3% of the total population). The remaining 1.6% of the population includes people from the Middle East (0.6%) and China (0.2%).
The 2001 census disclosed that 19,425, or 30 per cent of the total population of Antigua and Barbuda, reported their place of birth as a foreign country.[1] Over 15,000 of these persons were from other Caribbean states, representing 80 of the total foreign born. The main countries of
origin were Guyana, Dominica and Jamaica. Approximately 4,500 or 23 per cent of all foreign
born came from Guyana, 3,300 or 17 per cent came from Dominica and 2,800 or 14 per cent
came from Jamaica. The largest single group from a country outside the region came from the
United States. Of the total of 1,715 persons, nine per cent of the foreign born, came
from the United States while three per cent and one per cent came from the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively. Many of these are the children of Antiguans and Barbudans who had emigrated to these countries, mainly during the 1980s, and subsequently returned.
Languages
English (official), Antiguan creole
Religion
Protestant 68.3% (Anglican 17.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.4%, Pentecostal 12.2%, Moravian 8.3%, Methodist 5.6%, Wesleyan Holiness 4.5%, Church of God 4.1%, Baptist 3.6%), Roman Catholic 8.2%, other 12.2%, unspecified 5.5%, none 5.9% (2011 est.)
