Dominica

North AmericaCapital city: RoseauCapital metro: RoseauPrime Minister: Roosevelt SkerritPresident: Sylvanie Burton
2026 population
66K
Rank #213 globally
Area
751 km² (290 sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
43% of population in metros
Composite score
0.3
Rank #228 globally

population: Official estimate (2026) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

Dominica metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 1 tracked metro
1 metros
#2781Roseau★ Capital▲ Largest
0.3
🗂️ Parishs

10 entries listed under Dominica. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

10 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
English
Legislature
House of Assembly of Dominica
Demonym
Dominican
Time zones
Atlantic Time Zone, UTC−04:00
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+1767
Internet TLD
.dm
ISO 3166
DM
Established
1978
Highest point
Morne Diablotins (1,447 m (4,747 ft))
National anthem
Isle of Beauty, Isle of Splendour

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Human Dev. Index
#97 / 191
0.761
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#187 / 193
$724M
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#79 / 193
$11.0k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#84 / 190
$22.7k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#77 / 192
$10.7k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#124 / 194
71.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
35.6 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#61 / 194
74%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
-0.5%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#95 / 193
89/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#50 / 193
12.7%
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#92 / 193
82%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#80 / 185
2.5%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#93 / 192
2.6 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#139 / 186
13%
Ember · 2023

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations5 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History17 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Sylvanie Burton✦ Current

2023Present

President

Tenure: 2y 9m 1d

Charles Savarin

20132023

President

Tenure: 10y 0d

Eliud Williams

20122013

President

Tenure: 1y 15d

Roosevelt Skerrit

20042012

President

Tenure: 8y 8m 9d

Roosevelt Skerrit✦ Current

2004Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 22y 5m 25d

Nicholas Liverpool

20032004

President

Tenure: 3m 6d

Pierre Charles

20002004

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3y 3m 3d

Rosie Douglas

20002000

Prime Minister

Tenure: 7m 28d

Vernon Shaw

19982003

President

Tenure: 4y 11m 25d

Edison James

19952000

Prime Minister

Tenure: 4y 7m 20d

Crispin Sorhaindo

19931998

President

Tenure: 4y 11m 10d

Clarence Seignoret

19831993

President

Tenure: 9y 10m 6d
Show all 17 leaders

Eugenia Charles

19801995

Prime Minister

Tenure: 14y 10m 24d

Aurelius Marie

19801983

President

Tenure: 3y 9m 24d

Fred Degazon

19791980

President

Tenure: 1y 13d

Patrick John

19781979

Premier

Tenure: 7m 18d

Patrick John

19781978

Prime Minister

Tenure: 0d
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#218 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Dominica · share of world power, 1978–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19451 interstate war · click to expand
Combat deaths: 102+

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
67k
#206 in the world
Since 1800
3.33×
from 20k
Past its peak
−9.0%
peaked at 73k in 1980
Share of world
0.00%
0.00% in 1800
18k37k55k73k18001850190019502000
Dominica · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Dominica is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Dominica: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1980
73k; already passed
2050
63k
95% band 44k to 93k
2100
49k
95% band 28k to 125k
2100 against 2025
0.75×
median falling from 2042
Deaths outnumber births
since 2017
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
33k65k98k131k1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
2k born · 1k died · -420 net migration
TFR 5.24 · life expectancy 44.5 · median age 17.6
1960
3k born · 788 died · -759 net migration
TFR 6.18 · life expectancy 60.1 · median age 16.8
1970
2k born · 625 died · -847 net migration
TFR 5.21 · life expectancy 66.2 · median age 14.6
1980
2k born · 526 died · -1k net migration
TFR 3.04 · life expectancy 71.0 · median age 17.5
1990
2k born · 669 died · -2k net migration
TFR 3.09 · life expectancy 70.5 · median age 21.8
2000
1k born · 667 died · -973 net migration
TFR 2.35 · life expectancy 71.7 · median age 26.7
2010
963 born · 793 died · -206 net migration
TFR 1.89 · life expectancy 71.7 · median age 30.4
2020
771 born · 859 died · -225 net migration
TFR 1.50 · life expectancy 71.3 · median age 34.4
Show all 16 decades
2030
653 born · 798 died · -129 net migration
TFR 1.46 · life expectancy 72.3 · median age 38.2
2040
624 born · 832 died · +210 net migration
TFR 1.47 · life expectancy 73.9 · median age 41.0
2050
585 born · 864 died · +154 net migration
TFR 1.50 · life expectancy 75.4 · median age 42.1
2060
538 born · 856 died · +98 net migration
TFR 1.51 · life expectancy 76.9 · median age 44.2
2070
516 born · 859 died · +49 net migration
TFR 1.53 · life expectancy 78.4 · median age 45.6
2080
477 born · 847 died · +53 net migration
TFR 1.54 · life expectancy 79.9 · median age 46.3
2090
439 born · 793 died · -4 net migration
TFR 1.54 · life expectancy 81.3 · median age 47.1
2100
408 born · 749 died · -42 net migration
TFR 1.56 · life expectancy 82.6 · median age 48.0

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

Dominica on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.