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{{Infobox place demographics|place=[[Grenada]]|image=File:Grenada single age population pyramid 2020.png|image_size=350|caption=Population pyramid of Grenada in 2020|size_of_population=113,949 (2022 est.)|nation=Grenadian|major_ethnic=African descent (82.4%)|age_0–14_years=23.23%|age_65_years=10.89%|growth=0.32% (2022 est.)|birth=13.94 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)|death=8.31 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)|net_migration=-2.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.)|sr_at_birth=1.1 male(s)/female|sr_under_15=1.09 male(s)/female|total_mf_ratio=1.03 male(s)/female (2022 est.)|sr_65_years_over=0.69 male(s)/female|infant_mortality=9.4 deaths/1,000 live births|life=75.74 years|life_male=73.13 years|life_female=78.6 years|fertility=1.93 children born/woman (2022 est.)}}

The [[demography]] of the people of [[Grenada]], '''Grenadians''' {{IPAc-en|g|r|ə|ˈ|n|eɪ|d|iː|ən|z}}, includes [[population density]], [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source:<ref name="2001 census">{{Cite web |url=http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Grenada.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923200517/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Grenada.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="caribank.org">{{Cite web |url=http://www.caribank.org/uploads/2014/12/CGA-Grenada_JANUARY2014_FINAL.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-09-27 |archive-date=2018-07-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713062330/http://www.caribank.org/uploads/2014/12/CGA-Grenada_JANUARY2014_FINAL.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|title       = Census population and average annual growth rate
|percentages = pagr
|1871 | 37684
|1881 | 42403
|1891 | 53209
|1901 | 63438
|1911 | 66750
|1921 | 66302
|1946 | 72387
|1960 | 88677
|1970 | 92775
|1981 | 89088
|1991 | 85123
|2001 | 103137
|2011 | 105539
}}

==Population==

According to the 2011 census [[Grenada]] has 105,539 inhabitants.<ref name="caribank.org" /> The estimated population of {{UN_Population|Year}} is {{UN_Population|Grenada}} ({{UN_Population|source}}).

===Structure of the population===

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{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 56 222
| align="right" | 55 245
| align="right" | 111 467
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 4 282
| align="right" | 3 872
| align="right" | 8 154
| align="right" | 7.32
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 3 793 
| align="right" | 3 634
| align="right" | 7 427
| align="right" | 6.66
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 4 392
| align="right" | 4 276
| align="right" | 8 668
| align="right" | 7.78
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 4 869
| align="right" | 4 818
| align="right" | 9 687
| align="right" | 8.69
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 5 027
| align="right" | 4 797
| align="right" | 9 824
| align="right" | 8.81
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 4 758
| align="right" | 4 722
| align="right" | 9 480
| align="right" | 8.50
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 3 596
| align="right" | 3 514
| align="right" | 7 110
| align="right" | 6.38
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 3 424
| align="right" | 3 130
| align="right" | 6 554
| align="right" | 5.88
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 3 120
| align="right" | 2 904
| align="right" | 6 024
| align="right" | 5.40
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 3 416
| align="right" | 3 198
| align="right" | 6 614
| align="right" | 5.93
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 3 179
| align="right" | 3 195
| align="right" | 6 374
| align="right" | 5.72
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 2 455
| align="right" | 2 231
| align="right" | 4 686
| align="right" | 4.20
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 1 806
| align="right" | 1 765
| align="right" | 3 571
| align="right" | 3.20
|-
| align="right" | 65–69
| align="right" | 1 261
| align="right" | 1 497
| align="right" | 2 758
| align="right" | 2.47
|-
| align="right" | 70–74
| align="right" | 1 106 
| align="right" | 1 287
| align="right" | 2 393
| align="right" | 2.15
|-
| align="right" | 75–79
| align="right" | 732
| align="right" | 999
| align="right" | 1 731
| align="right" | 1.55
|-
| align="right" | 80–84
| align="right" | 417
| align="right" | 695
| align="right" | 1 112
| align="right" | 1.00
|-
| align="right" | 85–89
| align="right" | 168
| align="right" | 359
| align="right" | 527
| align="right" | 0.47
|-
| align="right" | 90+
| align="right" | 78
| align="right" | 197
| align="right" | 275
| align="right" | 0.25
|-
! width="50"|Age group 
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 12 467
| align="right" | 11 782
| align="right" | 24 249
| align="right" | 21.75
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 39 993
| align="right" | 38 429
| align="right" | 78 422
| align="right" | 70.35
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 3 762
| align="right" | 5 034
| align="right" | 8 796
| align="right" | 7.89
|-
|}
{{Hidden end}}

== Vital statistics ==

<ref name="Statistics Grenada">{{cite web| url = https://stats.gov.gd/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120918235844/http://stats.gov.gd/| archive-date = 2012-09-18| title = test}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
!
! width="70pt"|Average population <ref>[http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm#2001 United nations. Demographic Yearbooks]. 2001</ref>
! width="70pt"|Live births
! width="70pt"|Deaths
! width="70pt"|Natural change
! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000)
! width="70pt"|Total fertility rate<ref name="demographic profile">[http://caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/GD.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916004635/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/GD.pdf|date=2012-09-16}} Demographic Profile Grenada</ref>
! width="70pt"|Infant mortality rate<ref name="demographic profile"/>
|-
| 1950
| 77,000
|2,962||1,056||1,906
|38.6||13.8||24.9
|-
| 1951
| 77,000
|3,037||1,276||1,761
|39.6||16.7||23.0
|-
| 1952
| 77,000
|3,119||1,255||1,864
|40.4||16.3||24.2
|-
| 1953
| 78,000
|3,283||1,084||2,199
|42.0||13.9||28.2
|-
| 1954
| 79,000
|3,507|| 793||2,714
|44.2||10.0||34.2
|-
| 1955
| 81,000
|3,919||1,205||2,714
|48.4||14.9||33.5
|-
| 1956
| 83,000
|3,627||1,179||2,448
|43.8||14.2||29.6
|-
| 1957
| 85,000
|4,664|| 908||3,756
|55.1||10.7||44.4
|-
| 1958
| 86,000
|4,253|| 973||3,280
|49.2||11.2||37.9
|-
| 1959
| 88,000
|4,115|| 919||3,196
|46.6||10.4||36.2
|-
| 1960
| 90,000
|4,016||1,032||2,984
|44.7||11.5||33.2
|-
| 1961
| 91,000
|3,691||1,022||2,669
|40.4||11.2||29.2
|-
| 1962
| 92,000
|3,419|| 840||2,579
|37.0||9.1||27.9
|-
| 1963
| 93,000
|3,445|| 827||2,618
|36.9||8.9||28.0
|-
| 1964
| 94,000
|3,374|| 804||2,570
|35.9||8.5||27.3
|-
| 1965
| 95,000
|2,968|| 822||2,146
|31.4||8.7||22.7
|-
| 1966
| 95,000
|2,820|| 852||1,968
|29.7||9.0||20.7
|-
| 1967
| 95,000
|2,816|| 786||2,030
|29.7||8.3||21.4
|-
| 1968
| 95,000
|2,994|| 822||2,172
|31.6||8.7||22.9
|-
| 1969
| 95,000
|2,757|| 768||1,989
|29.1||8.1||21.0
|-
| 1970
| 94,000
|2,741|| 743||1,998
|29.0||7.9||21.2
|-
| 1971
| 94,000
|2,879|| 739||2,140
|30.6||7.8||22.7
|-
| 1972
| 94,000
|2,939|| 660||2,279
|31.3||7.0||24.3
|-
| 1973
| 94,000
|2,933|| 726||2,207
|31.3||7.8||23.6
|-
| 1974
| 93,000
|2,734|| 734||2,000
|29.4||7.9||21.5
|-
| 1975
| 92,000
|2,890|| 619||2,271
|31.3||6.7||24.6
|-
| 1976
| 91,000
|2,712|| 678||2,034
|29.7||7.4||22.2
|-
| 1977
| 90,000
|2,628|| 806||1,822
|29.1||8.9||20.2
|-
| 1978
| 89,000
|2,521|| 765||1,756
|28.3||8.6||19.7
|-
| 1979
| 89,000
|2,664|| 739||1,925
|30.1||8.3||21.7
|-
| 1993
| 97,056
|2,220|| 745||1,475
|22.6||7.6||15.0
|-
| 1994
| 97,793
|2,254|| 777||1,477
|22.7||7.8||14.9
|-
| 1995
| 98,540
|2,286|| 807||1,479
|22.8||8.0||14.8
|
| 12.7
|-
| 1996
| 98,921
|2,096|| 782||1,314
|20.8||7.8||13.0
|
| 14.3
|-
| 1997
| 99,516
|2,191|| 707||1,484
|21.7||7.0||14.7
|
| 14.1
|-
| 1998
| 100,100
|1,938|| 819||1,119
|19.1||8.1||11.0
|
| 19.1
|-
| 1999
| 100,703
|1,791|| 794|| 997
|17.7||7.8||9.8
|
| 15.2
|-
| 2000
| 101,308
|1,883|| 765||1,118
|18.5||7.5||11.0
|
| 14.3
|-
| 2001
| 103,143
|1,899|| 727||1,172
|18.6||7.1||11.5
|
| 17.4
|-
| 2002
| 104,068
|1,756|| 887|| 869
|16.9||8.5||8.4
|
| 20.5
|-
| 2003
| 104,769
| 1,851|| 810|| 1,041
| 17.7|| 7.7|| 10.0
|
| 11.9
|-
| 2004
| 104,712
| 1,868|| 884|| 984
| 17.8|| 8.4|| 9.4
|
| 9.6
|-
| 2005
| 104,441
|1,804 || 834|| 970
|17.3||8.0||9.3 
|2.2
| 9.4
|-
| 2006
| 104,708
|1,663 || 765|| 898
|15.9||7.3||8.6 
|1.9
| 12.6
|-
| 2007
| 104,981
|1,825 || 740|| 1,085
|17.4||7.0||10.4 
|2.2
| 7.1
|-
| 2008
| 105,298
|1,809 || 842|| 967
|17.2|| 8.0||9.2 
|2.1
| 5.0
|-
| 2009
| 105,175
| 1,800|| 781|| 1,019
| 17.1||7.4||9.7
|2.0
| 7.8
|-
| 2010
| 105,038
| 1,709|| 831|| 878
| 16.3|| 7.9||8.4
|1.9
| 12.3
|-
| 2011
| 106,667
| 1,812|| 795|| 1,017
| 17.0|| 7.5||9.5
|2.177
| 15.5
|-
| 2012
| 107,599
| 1,661|| 857|| 804
| 15.4|| 8.0||7.5
|1.924
| 13.2
|-
| 2013
| 108,580
| 1,838|| 822|| 1,016
| 16.9|| 7.6||9.4
|2.129
| 17.4
|-
| 2014
| 109,374
| 1,750|| 958|| 792
| 16.0|| 8.8||7.2
|2.003
| 18.9
|-
| 2015
| 110,096
| 1,694|| 869|| 825
| 15.4||7.9 ||7.5
|1.925
| 16.5
|-
| 2016
| 110,910
| 1,577||898 || 679
| 14.2|| 8.1||6.1
|1.788
| 15.9
|-
| 2017
| 111,467
| 1,398|| 885||513
| 12.5||7.9||4.6
|1.705
| 24.3
|-
| 2018
| 111,959
| 1,520|| 965||555
| 13.6||8.6||5.0
|1.693
| 15.8
|-
| 2019
| 112,579
| 1,575|| 981||594
| 14.0||8.7||5.3
|
| 11.4
|-
| 2020
| 113,135
| 1,540|| 1,033||507
| 13.5||8.9||4.6
|
| 20.1
|-
| 2021
| 113,703
| 1,611|| 1,273||338
| 14.2||11.2||3.0
|
| 18.6
|-
| 2022
| 
| 1,469|| 1,136||333
| ||||
|
| 19.7
|-
| 2023
| 
| 1,380|| 1,068||312
| ||||
|
| 12.3
|}

===Fertility rate===

The fertility rate in Grenada was 2.21 in 2013.<ref name="caribank.org" />

==Ethnic groups==
The vast majority of the population of Grenada are of African descent (89.4% at the 2001 census).<ref name="2001 census"/> There is also a significant mixed population (8.2%), along with a small European origin minority (0.4%), East Indians (1.6%), and there are small numbers of Lebanese/Syrians (0.04%) and [[Chinese people|Chinese]] (0.02%).

===Amerindians===
[[Grenada]] has a small population of pre-Columbian native [[Kalina people|Caribs]]. According to the 2001 census there are only 125 Caribs remaining (0.12% of the total population).

==Languages==
Apart from a 114-year period of French occupancy (1649–1763) English has been the country's official language.  However, over time the minority of the population use a colloquial spoken language considered to be either [[English-based creole languages]] or ([[Grenadian Creole English]]) and which is said to reflect the African, European and Indian heritage of the nation.<ref>Alleyne, Mervyn C. "A Linguistic Perspective on the Caribbean", Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1985</ref>

The Grenadian creoles originally influenced by [[French language|French]], now contain elements from a variety of Grenadian Creole and a little of the African languages. [[Grenadian Creole French]] is mainly spoken in smaller rural areas, but today it can only be heard in a few small pockets of the society. Grenadian Creole French is mainly known as ''[[Patois]]'' and may have similarities to the [[Saint Lucian Creole French]].

It is believed that the one-time native or indigenous languages were [[Iñeri language|Iñeri]] and [[Karina language|Karina]].

==Religion==
Historically the religious makeup of the islands of Grenada covers the period from first European occupation in the 17th century.  This has always been predominantly Christian and largely Roman Catholic (due to the first occupants being French) and from the 1891 census we get a snapshot of the population and its religious proclivities - over half were Roman Catholic (55%), a third were Church of England (36%), others listed were Wesleyan (6%) and Presbyterian (0.88%).

More recently, according to the government's 2011 information, 85.2% percent of the population of Grenada is considered [[Christianity|Christian]], 7.7% is non-Christian and 7% has no religious belief. Roughly one third of Christians are [[Roman Catholics]] (36% of the total population), a reflection of early French influence on the island, and one half are [[Protestant]] (49.2%).

[[Anglicanism]] constitutes the largest Protestant group, with about 11.5% of the population. [[Pentecostals]] are the second largest group (about 11.3%), followed by [[Seventh-day Adventists]] (approximately 10.5% of the population).  Other estimates include [[Baptists]] (2.9%), Church of God (2.6%), [[Methodists#Caribbean|Methodists]] (1.8%), [[Evangelicalism|Evangelicals]] (1.6%) [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] (1.1%), and [[Brethren Christian]] (0.5%).

The number of non-Christians is small. These religious groups include the [[Rastafarian Movement]] (1.1% of the population), [[Hinduism in the West Indies|Hinduism]] (0.2%) and [[Muslims]] (0.3%).

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://stats.gov.gd/}} &ndash; Central Statistical Office Grenada, Cariaccou, and Petit Martinique
* [https://caricom.org/country_profiles/grenada/ Grenada, Cariaccou, and Petit Martinique profile] &ndash; Caribbean Community Statistics

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