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Cayman Islands

75,844

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1.39K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+91.2%from 39.67K
Life expectancy80.5 years2024
Fertility rate1.52births per woman · 2024
Urban population100.0%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Cayman Islands is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1416.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6474.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+9.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+6.7births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+888net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cayman Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 103.96K in 2050—39.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202474.46K
  2. 2050103.96K
  3. 2100118.03K
Median age in 205044.3years
Births in 2050976during the year
Deaths in 2050897during the year
Life expectancy84.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19608.43K
  2. 197010.52K
  3. 198017.08K
  4. 199026K
  5. 200039.67K
  6. 201054.1K
  7. 202068.68K
  8. 202575.84K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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