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Curacao — Population growth

Population Growth (Annual %) for Curacao, 1961–2025.

Latest value · 2025
0.19%
Population Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -81.7% since 1961

Population growth for Curacao was 0.19% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 2.57% in 2006. The lowest was -4.08% in 2000 (about -21.5× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -2.62% per year.

Curacao ranks 162 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 75%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 0.48%, so Curacao sits below it. It peaked in 2006 and has fallen 93% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 86%.

Key figures

Latest (2025)
0.19%
First (1961)
1.04%
Change
-81.7%
Highest
2.57%
in 2006
Lowest
-4.08%
in 2000
Average
0.35%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-2.62%
Years of data
65

Recent years

Yearannual %
20250.19%
20240.85%
20230.87%
2022-0.41%
2021-0.99%
2020-1.25%
2019-1.2%
2018-0.53%
20170.32%
20161.06%
20151.32%
20141.35%
Reading this correctly. Annual population growth rate. A negative value means the population shrank, usually through emigration or low birth rates. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.

Related data

Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator SP.POP.GROW — Population Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.