| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c.45–47 million | |
 Haiti | 12 million [1] |
 Dominican Republic | 11.5 million |
 Cuba | 11 million |
 United States | 4.5 million [2] |
 Puerto Rico | 3.4 million |
 Jamaica | 2.7 million |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 1.5 million |
 France | 1.2 million [3] |
 United Kingdom | 1.0 million [4] |
 Netherlands | 850 thousand [5] |
 Guyana | 790 thousand |
 Canada | 750 thousand [6] |
 Suriname | 633 thousand |
| Languages | |
| Spanish, French, French-based creole languages (Haitian Creole, Antillean Creole), English, English-based creole languages (Jamaican Patois, Bahamian Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Guyanese Creole, Bajan Creole, Sranan Tongo), Papiamento, Dutch, Caribbean Hindustani, Chinese, Javanese | |
| Religion | |
| Majority:Minority: | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Americans, Canadians, Latin Americans | |
Caribbean people are the people born in or inhabitants of the Caribbean region or people of Caribbean descent living outside the Caribbean. The Caribbean region was initially populated by Amerindians from several different Kalinago and Taino groups. These groups were largely decimated by a combination of enslavement and disease brought by European colonizers. Descendants of the Taino and Kalinago tribes exist today in the Caribbean and elsewhere but are usually of partial Amerindian ancestry. [7]
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Modern Caribbean people usually further identify by their own specific ethnic ancestry, therefore constituting various subgroups, of which are: Afro-Caribbean (largely descendants of bonded African slaves), Multiracial Caribbean (descendants of two or more ethnicities, such as Mulattos, Mestizos and Douglas), Hispanic/Latino-Caribbean (Spanish-speaking Caribbean people who largely descended from solely or a mixture of Spaniards, West Africans and Taino peoples), White Caribbean (largely descendants of European colonizers), Asian Caribbean who are mainly divided between Indo-Caribbean (largely descendants of Indian jahaji indentured laborers and free immigrants) and Chinese Caribbean (largely descendants of free Chinese immigrants and indentured workers), and Indigenous Caribbean (largely descendants of the indigenous people of the Caribbean with some degree of admixture).
As of 2024, the Caribbean population is estimated to be approximately 44.8 million, with a growth rate of around 0.54% from the previous year. [8]
Haiti has the most population in the Caribbeans with population of over 12 million. Haiti is also the fastest growing country in the Caribbeans surpassing in Cuba in 2021. Over 3 million Haitians live in other countries such as France, United States and Canada due to political unrest and violence. [9]
