Dutch Caribbean partners sign protocol on migration, population
PHILIPSBURG - Aruba, Curaçao, and St. Maarten have all agreed to the need for developing policies to effectively respond to socio-economic issues and challenges facing them. The Dutch Caribbean Kingdom partners More...
Civil Registrations Office: ‘Curaçao’s population is decreasing’
WILLEMSTAD - During a recent press conference, the Civil Registry’s Office (Kranshi) indicated that the island’s population fell by 0.8 percent in the first eight months of this year. On average about 15 people More...
Population Curaçao declines slightly
WILLEMSTAD - The number of official residents in Curaçao has dropped by more than 300 last year. There are now just over 160,000 people living on the island. This is according to the Central Bureau for Statistics. The More...
Quarter of population wants independence on long-term
WILLEMSTAD - More than a quarter of the population would like to be independent within 25 years, but the same percentage (32.3 percent) still wants to return to the Netherlands Antilles. Furthermore, the Dutch language More...
Curaçao has 159,000 documented residents
WILLEMSTAD - The population of the island has increased by more than 2,000 people last year, 2015 to be precise. This is according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The counter now stands at 158.986 people More...
The Budget Survey of the Central Bureau of Statistics
WILLEMSTAD - The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has already approached almost a quarter of households with questions about their spending habits, as part of the research budget. CBS started this Budget Survey More...
Future population growth depends heavily on migration
CBS presents' Population Projections 2015-2050 ", results and analysis of five population projection scenarios. WILLEMSTAD - To make a forecast of the expected future population development of Curaçao five different More...
Ranking Caribbean countries by population density
The World Bank’s recently-released World Development Report contains mounds of fascinating data about the world and, more importantly, the Caribbean. We’ll be doing a series of posts putting together the data, More...
CBS presents the first results on income distribution and poverty, based on the Census 2011
WILLEMSTAD – Once again the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) publishes new information from Census 2011 on its website. These are the first results of the 2001 Census regarding income distribution and poverty. A More...
Curacao population: 60% none or low-skilled
WILLEMSTAD - Of the 150 thousand legal residents of Curaçao there are nearly 40 thousand who are attending school. But most of the inhabitants of Curaçao are not or are poorly educated. 60 percent of the non school-going More...
