Trinidad und Tobago - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 10 39 N, 61 31 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
etymology: the name dates to the period of Spanish colonial rule (16th to late 18th centuries) when the city was referred to as "Puerto de Espana"; the name was anglicized following the British capture of Trinidad in 1797
citizenship by descent only: yes
dual citizenship recognized: yes
residency requirement for naturalization: 8 years
land: 5,128 sq km
water: 0 sq km
arable land: 4.9% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 4.3% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 1.4% (2018 est.)
forest: 44% (2018 est.)
other: 45.4% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 67.4% (male 482,427/female 466,200)
65 years and over: 13.56% (2023 est.) (male 88,531/female 102,253)
male: 74.3 years
female: 78.2 years
male: 37.5 years
female: 38.4 years
rate of urbanization: 0.23% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
4.57% (2020 est.)
3.42% (2019 est.)
37% of GDP (2016 est.)
0.6% (2020 est.)
1% (2019 est.)
$6.44 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$9.566 billion (2019 est.)
$6.785 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$7.96 billion (2019 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 27 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 79% (2021 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 22 (2021 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 130 (2021 est.)
Trinidad and Tobago-Barbados: Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago abide by the April 2006 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision delimiting a maritime boundary and limiting catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's EEZ
Trinidad and Tobago-Barbados-Guyana-Venezuela: in 2005, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to compulsory international arbitration under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea challenging whether the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobago's and Venezuela's maritime boundary extends into Barbadian waters; Guyana has expressed its intention to include itself in the arbitration, as the Trinidad and Tobago-Venezuela maritime boundary may also extend into its waters