Trinidad & Tobago
population: Official estimate (30 Jun 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 5 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography5 metros
Trinidad & Tobago metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 5 tracked metros
| Metro | State | Tier | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #696 | Port of Spain★ Capital▲ Largest | Trinidad | 297K | 2.9 | Emerging Metro |
| #2730 | Scarborough (Tobago) | Tobago | 42K | 0.3 | Local Metro |
| #3171 | Arima | Trinidad | 249K | 0.1 | Local Metro |
| #3405 | San Fernando (TT) | Trinidad | 138K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
| #3714 | Chaguanas | Trinidad | 84K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
📋 At a glance
- Official language
- English
- Currency
- Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)
- Government
- Parliamentary republic
- Legislature
- Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago
- Constitution
- 1976, 14 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Trinidadian
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Driving side
- Left
- Calling code
- +1868
- Internet TLD
- .tt
- ISO 3166
- TT
- Established
- 1976
- Highest point
- El Cerro del Aripo (940 m (3,084 ft))
- National anthem
- Forged from the Love of Liberty
Facts via Wikidata.
💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
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 & Organisations4 full memberships
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.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar✦ Current
2025–PresentPrime Minister
Stuart Young
2025–2025Prime Minister
Christine Kangaloo✦ Current
2023–PresentPresident
Paula-Mae Weekes
2018–2023President
Keith Rowley
2015–2025Prime Minister
Anthony Carmona
2013–2018President
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
2010–2015Prime Minister
George Maxwell Richards
2003–2013President
Patrick Manning
2001–2010Prime Minister
A. N. R. Robinson
1997–2003President
Basdeo Panday
1995–2001Prime Minister
Patrick Manning
1991–1995Prime Minister
Show all 17 leaders
Noor Hassanali
1987–1997President
A. N. R. Robinson
1986–1991Prime Minister
George Chambers
1981–1986Prime Minister
Ellis Clarke
1976–1987President
Eric Williams
1962–1981Prime Minister
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar✦ Current | Prime Minister | 2025–Present |
| Stuart Young | Prime Minister | 2025–2025 |
| Christine Kangaloo✦ Current | President | 2023–Present |
| Paula-Mae Weekes | President | 2018–2023 |
| Keith Rowley | Prime Minister | 2015–2025 |
| Anthony Carmona | President | 2013–2018 |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar | Prime Minister | 2010–2015 |
| George Maxwell Richards | President | 2003–2013 |
| Patrick Manning | Prime Minister | 2001–2010 |
| A. N. R. Robinson | President | 1997–2003 |
| Basdeo Panday | Prime Minister | 1995–2001 |
| Patrick Manning | Prime Minister | 1991–1995 |
| Noor Hassanali | President | 1987–1997 |
| A. N. R. Robinson | Prime Minister | 1986–1991 |
| George Chambers | Prime Minister | 1981–1986 |
| Ellis Clarke | President | 1976–1987 |
| Eric Williams | Prime Minister | 1962–1981 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
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.
👥 Population over time
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. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Trinidad & Tobago: 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.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
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
Trinidad & Tobago on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.
🏟️ League Hubs
Domestic league portals that operate in Trinidad & Tobago: 1 league.