Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
About 1 in 440,366 people born in 2023 started life in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. A boy can expect to live 75 years and a girl 80, up from 58 and 64 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 16 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 89 in every 1,000 births to 13.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 5.7 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.5, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Kralendijk, with 10,620 people.
People on the move
About 15% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Curaçao, Aruba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Events in the data
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Now live it.
Born in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
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