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Migration trends in Trinidad and Tobago

Latin America

323.6K people from Trinidad and Tobago have built lives abroad. That's 23.7% of the country population, spread across 42 different countries

1.4M

Population

102.9K

Immigrants

323.6K

Emigrants

−220.7K

Outflow

Every 5th person born in Trinidad and Tobago now lives abroad

The #121 largest source of emigrants worldwide

Top corridors

The largest migration routes in Trinidad and Tobago

Where people move to

🥇🇺🇸United States241.5K74.6%
🥈🇨🇦Canada62.4K19.3%
🥉🇻🇪Venezuela2.5K0.8%

Where people come from

🥇🇻🇪Venezuela34.5K33.6%
🥈🇬🇾Guyana15.7K15.3%
🥉🇬🇩Grenada12.8K12.5%

Key moments

How migration has changed since 1990

1990

46.6K immigrants · 181.6K emigrants

2000

  • An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 49%

2010

  • Guyana overtook Grenada as the largest source of new arrivals

2020

  • Venezuela overtook Guyana as the largest source of new arrivals
  • Roughly 1 in 20 residents was now foreign-born

Today

  • A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 44%
  • The foreign-born population passed 100K residents
  • Since 1990: 56.3K more foreign-born residents and 142K more citizens living abroad