Statistics

Population and economic statistics of full and associate members
Member	Membership	Land area (km²)	Population (2019)	GDP (PPP) Millions USD (2017)^[38]	GDP Per Capita (PPP) USD (2017)	Human Development Index (2018)
Anguilla	associate	91	15,174	175.4	12,200	–
Antigua and Barbuda	full member	442.6	104,084	2,390	26,300	0.776
Bahamas	full member	10,010	385,340	9,339	25,100	0.805
Barbados	full member	430	287,010	4,919	17,500	0.813
Belize	full member	22,806	398,050	3,230	8,300	0.720
Bermuda	associate	54	63,779	5,198	85,700	–
British Virgin Islands	associate	151	32,206	500	42,300	–
Cayman Islands	associate	264	64,420	2,507	43,800	–
Dominica	full member	751	74,679	851	12,000	0.724
Grenada	full member	344	108,825	1,590	14,700	0.763
Guyana	full member	214,970	786,508	6,367	8,300	0.670
Haiti	full member	27,560	11,242,856	19,880	1,800	0.503
Jamaica	full member	10,831	2,728,864	26,200	9,200	0.726
Montserrat	full member	102	5,220	43.8	8,500	–
Saint Kitts and Nevis	full member	261	56,345	1,528	26,800	0.777
Saint Lucia	full member	606	180,454	2,384	13,500	0.745
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	full member	389	109,803	1,281	11,600	0.728
Suriname	full member	156,000	573,085	7,928	13,900	0.724
Trinidad and Tobago	full member	5,128	1,359,193	42,780	31,200	0.799
Turks and Caicos Islands	associate	948	37,910	632	29,100	–
Full members	members only	432,510	18,400,316	130,711	15,247	0.730

Thousands of Caricom nationals live within other member states of the Community.

An estimated 30,000 Jamaicans legally reside in other CARICOM member states,^[40] mainly in the Bahamas (5,600), Antigua & Barbuda (estimated 12,000),^[42] Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago). Also, an estimated 150 Jamaicans live and work in Montserrat. A November 21, 2013 estimated put 16,958 Jamaicans residing illegally in Trinidad & Tobago, as according to the records of the Office of the Chief Immigration Officer, their entry certificates would have since expired.^[43] By October 2014, the estimated Jamaicans residing illegally in Trinidad and Tobago was 19,000 along with an estimated 7,169 Barbadians and 25,884 Guyanese residing illegally. An estimated 8,000 Trinidadians and Tobagonians live in Jamaica.

Exclusive Economic Zones of the member states of the CARICOM. Considering them, the total area reaches the 2 300 297 km².

Barbados hosts a large diaspora population of Guyanese, of whom (in 2005) 5,032 lived there permanently as citizens, permanent residents, immigrants (with immigrant status) and Caricom skilled nationals; 3,200 were residing in Barbados temporarily under work permits, as students, or with “reside and work” status. A further 2,000-3,000 Guyanese were estimated to be living illegally in Barbados at the time.^[46] Migration between Barbados and Guyana has deep roots, going back over 150 years, with the most intense period of Barbadian migration to then-British Guiana occurring between 1863 and 1886, although as late as the 1920s and 1930s Barbadians were still leaving Barbados for British Guiana.

Migration between Guyana and Suriname also goes back a number of years. An estimated 50,000 Guyanese had migrated to Suriname by 1986. In 1987 an estimated 30-40,000 Guyanese were in Suriname.^[50] Many Guyanese left Suriname in the 1970s and 1980s, either voluntarily by expulsion. Over 5,000 were expelled in January 1985 alone.^[51] in the instability Suriname experienced following independence, both coups and civil war.^[49] In 2013 an estimated 11,530 Guyanese had emigrated to Suriname and 4,662 Surinamese to Guyana.