Caribbean Islands: Facts & Stats

Demographics

Population:

The Commonwealth Caribbean islands make up a large subcomponent of the hundreds of islands in the Caribbean Sea. The population in 2009 was estimated to be around 45 million.

Anguilla	14000
Antigua and Barbuda	82,000
Aruba	106,050
The Bahamas (officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas)	330,000
Barbados	279,000
The British Virgin Islands	22,016
The Cayman Islands	51,900
The Republic of Cuba	11,451,652
Dominica (officially the Commonwealth of Dominica)	72,500
The Dominican Republic	10,090,000
Grenada	110,000
Guadeloupe	405,500
Haiti	10,033,000
Jamaica	2,825,928
Martinique	402,000
Montserrat	4,488
The Netherlands Antilles	183,000
Puerto Rico (officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico)	3,994,259
Saint Barthélemy (officially the Collectivity of Saint Barthélemy)	8,450
The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis	42,696
Saint Lucia	160,765
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	120,000
Saint Martin (officially the Collectivity of Saint Martin)	35,263
The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago	1,299,953
The United States Virgin Islands	108,448

Education:

A system of free public primary education and limited secondary education is available in every territory. Based on the British system the colonial Caribbean educational system was never modified to local circumstances.

It comes not from the local government, but rather, from the religious community. Competing Protestant denominations, the Church of England, the Baptists, the Moravians, the Wesleyans, and the Presbyterians and the Jesuits operated a vast system of elementary and secondary schools. At the end of the nineteenth century, the churches monopolized elementary education in Jamaica and Barbados and ran a majority of the primary schools in Trinidad, Grenada, and Antigua.

The most outstanding secondary schools St. George's College, Kingston College, Jamaica College, Calabar High School, and the York Castle High School in Jamaica; Harrison College, Codrington College, the Lodge School, and the Queens College in Barbados; and Queen's College, St. Mary's, and Naparima in Trinidad as well as the principal grammar schools in the Bahamas, Antigua, St. Kitts, and Grenada owe their origins to the religious denominations.

Each territory had a board of education, which supervised both government and religious schools. Government assistance slowly increased until by the middle of the twentieth century the state eventually gained control over all forms of education. Although far from perfect, most colonies still spent more on prisons than on schools, public education fired the ambitions of the urban poor.

Religion:

Caribbean religions have been greatly affected by the presence of Europeans, Africans, and Asian peoples. In general these religions have either an African or a Christian base, but Caribbean peoples have modified selected aspects of these traditions, added to them, and made them their own. The largest religious groups in the region are: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Rastafari, Santería, and Voodoo among others.

Rastafari is perhaps the most widely known of Caribbean religions. The religion's influence vastly exceeds its numbers in its original Jamaica or even elsewhere in the Caribbean, to include persons in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom), Latin America, and the United States. Most notably preacher-leaders Leonard Howell, Joseph Hibbert, Archibald Dunkley, Paul Earlington, Vernal Davis, Ferdinand Richetts, and Robert Hinds.

Cuban Santeria combines European and African beliefs and practices, but, unlike voodoo, Santeria is inspired mainly by one African tradition — the Yoruba. In Santeria, the Yoruba influence is marked in music, chants, foodstuffs, and by animal sacrifice.

The Spiritual Baptists are an international religious movement with congregations in St. Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Guyana, Venezuela, Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York City. Membership is predominantly black, but in recent years congregations in Trinidad have attracted membership among wealthy East Indians and Chinese. A central ritual among the Spiritual Baptists is the mourning rite.

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