Cayman by numbers: population grows nearly 6%
(CNS): The Cayman Islands population has grown by over 5.8%, from 55,036 people in 2010 when the last national census was conducted to 58,238 at the end of last year. The split between Caymanians and overseas residents has remained relatively stable over these five years, but with a fall in the local population by just over 0.5% compared to last year to 57.4%. However, the percentage of locals in the population since the census, when Caymanians accounted for 56.3%, has grown by just over 1%.
These and a bundle of other statistics, figures and numbers can be found in the annual compendium 2014 compiled by the Economics and Statistics Office.
The number guide tells us that more than 30,000 people, or over 50% of the population, live in George Town, while just 2% live in North Side and just over 3% live in East End. Just over 20% live in the fastest growing district of Bodden Town and just under 20% in West Bay.
Last year the percentage of men in the community fell to its lowest level since the post Hurricane Ivan year of 2005, when men outnumbered women by 0.2 percentage points. As the end of 2014, however, the proportion of women had increased from 49.8% in 2005 to 51.4%, with almost 1,600 more women on island than men.
The compendium shows a mixed bag of economic and social data, from GDP, which has grown by over 2%, to employment, which is said to have fallen just 4.7%. It also reflects spending habits, the health of the nation, the state of education and environmental figures. It shows home ownership, water gallon consumption, air arrivals, government revenue and the value of planning approvals, painting a statistical map of the nation throughout 2014.
Among the many interesting tidbits in the compendium, telecoms data shows a growth in internet connection of some 15% in 2014 compared with 2013, with 23,469 people now connected to the internet. But the number of both fixed land lines and cell phones declined from 134,753 in 2013 to 123,962, with both land and mobile phone numbers declining.
The compendium is a purely statistical record with no research or analysis of the changes in figures. While a decline in landlines can be expected, as smartphone technology and cell phones negate the need for residential land lines, it is mobile phone line numbers which have seen the largest decline, from 98,036 in 2013 to 91,059 last year. But that fall could reflect a consolidation of cell phones as the local habit of carrying multiple handsets to cover all of the local networks declines.
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More evidence that the economic downturn is over and the good times are back. Tax revenue is up, unemployment is not a problem. Now can the government unwind the vicious chances to PR rights which undermine workforce stability and harm businesses?
Land of opportunity for everyone but it’s citizens….great job Tara and Alden.
I hear the whine of a thousand tiny violins.
Your was not at all clever or original so I am certain lol’d your own comment. You’re pathetic.
Everyday Caymankind racism.
This is BAD.!
So what if there are about 25 new work permits/renewals/temps being granted EACH DAY or about 20,000 over past year! Wowie.
Good thing these “unemployment numbers” are stabilizing and declined sharply (as they say) to only 7.9percent even as locals are less than half of workforce now!.
Well hell yeah, if this is how locals workers supposed to live nowadays.
9:51, there are not enough Caymanians to fill all the employment positions in this Country, which is why we need imported labor and is also why there will ALWAYS be less locals in the workforce you idiot.
Just a tiny, probably insubstantial point, if government did that, and I have seen no indication that they are, they could afford to pay you to stay at home. Would make our lives easier too, especially with attitudes like yours
Some live off the fees we expats pay but can never get any benefit from
Which fees are those? Certainly not work permit fees, those are paid by businesses,
How was the population accounted for as I spoke to several thousand and none of those people where approached by the government volunteers. So I am not understanding how these %’s came about therefore I would love for someone to enlighten me.
It’s called forecasting, by using a sample of the island. You wanna pay for a population census every year? Read a book!
Exactly. Some people aren’t being counted! WOW
I highly doubt 3:22 “spoke to several thousand” people.
I doubt you spoke to “several thousand” people.
Soon the invasion by breeding will be complete and our evil plan to install intelligent government and governance will come to pass!
Install? Or elect? Which one, because you usually install security systems, television sets etc.. Never heard of anyone “installing” a Government but I do love to learn so please teach me.
Then you need to understand how African politics work. Installing puppet governments by dictatorships is a national sport in most, as it is in Cuba, North Korea, Myanmar, Belorussia etc…… None of these ‘governments’ are elected they are ‘appointees’ installed by military juntas or ruthless dictators.
The word ‘installation’ is a noun, one example being, ‘the action or process of installing someone or something, or of being installed’.
Learnt anything yet, or will you remain a smug, sarcastic moron?
Watch and learn grasshopper….
For all these innane ESO exercises, groups like CIMA are not smart enough to see anything unusual with 8600 Jamaican minimum wage permit holders sending USD$110,000,000 cash back to Jamaica from Cayman every year…some USD$13,000 in spare cash per permit holder.
Your statement has no substance.
Permit holders are not the only persons that use such services. Parents with children in school, family members like Caymanians sending $$ for relatives and so forth
No where in the article can it be shown that the money-sending service(s) made a note of who was or was not a permit holder.
Why would family need to send money to students overseas through money transfers like Moneygram when they can simply put the money in a local bank account and the student can withdraw from an ATM machine or wire the money to a US bank?
USD$110mln being sent to Jamaica is ONLY the amount via money transfer mechanism. If average transmission amount is less than $500, then remittances to this nation alone would have necessitated more than 600 individual transactions per day. Also if divided by the number of permit holders (9000), over $12k per Jamaican worker per year back to Jamaica. These are unbelievable numbers. Obviously, this was one of the settlement mechanisms for the transshipment economy…
I have always been puzzled by the fact that it seems as much money is sent to Jamaica using these services as is earned by Jamaicans in these Islands. These numbers seem not to include regular bank transfers or cash carried by hand, and of course do not include the substantial expenses incurred simply living here. Oh where oh where could the money be coming from?
Everyday Caymankind racism. Why do these mediocre types hate Jamaicans so much?
Why? A mix of mediocrity, self-loathing and denial.
I don’t hate any particular Nationality of people. I think it’s discouraging for most people who have residency here to see this large amount of money being taken away from our own economy. It is not hatred but frustration while a few reap the benefits of the rape being carried on annually. I for one will always stand with the fact that I believe the problem is Caymanians holding down the majority of their own. A small greedy percentage living in Camana Bay or gated communities (which won’t save you when the ish really hits the fan), are the ones thriving and others barely surviving. It is what Legge referred to as “corruption imbedded in our culture”. Food for thought.
Although I may agree with you to a certain extent, you blow your argument through the hyperbolic out-of-context use of the word “rape”. Rape is an act of sexual violence, and nothing else.
No, “rape” has a narrow meaning and a wider meaning. It is just that the feminists and the politically correct (i.e. men without a pair) don’t like the wider meaning and are trying to censor everyone else.
Getting offended by feminists or political correctness is you feeling threatened that other people have opinions and the courage to state them. If you’re offended or hurt by words, you need to grow a pair yourself.
Tell that to the people of Nanking. And in the context of the horrific sexual offense, violence is not actually a required element.
Ever heard of Oilseed Rape? I have never seen this plant doing anything sexually violent to any other plants in the farmers fields all over the UK at this time of year.
As a Jamaican, who left Jamaica some thirty years ago, I must say that the increase in the numbers of low wage workers from Jamaica is concerning. Anyone who knows the history of Jamaica, and the social issues that plaque Jamaica to this day will also be concerned.
It has nothing to do with hatred, but the fact is, Jamaicans have been conditioned to survive BY ANY means necessary. Anyone (who is of any moral standing or class) who has been subjected to or experienced the dog-eat-dog mentality of ANY country that has the same issues as Jamaica will understand the apprehension.
The simple fact is, a leopard does not change his spots, nor does a man change his nature. Simply throwing such a large number of people, who have a different reality than those of their host country, will not end well.
I am proud of Jamaica and what it has accomplished. BUT I am also not blind to the reality of the reputation that many bad apples have caused Jamaica to have across the world.
Most minimum wage earning folks are living pretty close to the poverty line. They can’t all be sending money home at an avg pace of $13k per permit holder per year. Even if as many as 50% of Jamaican permit holders were doing this, the avg goes to $26,000 per year. It just doesn’t add up unless the total is skewed with massive input from illicit unmonitored transshipment settlements.