St Helena: Population

(asked on 17th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the population was of St Helena in each of the last 10 years; and what assessment he has made of trends in the level of that population over that period.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 27th January 2020

The Saint Helena Government's Statistics Office has confirmed that the resident population of St Helena in June each year was:

2010 - 3966

2011 - 3982

2012 - 4050

2013 - 4220

2014 - 4349

2015 - 4458

2016 - 4542

2017 - 4345

2018 - 4554

2019 - 4346

The population increased during the construction of St Helena Airport (particularly between 2013 and 2016) but there was a slight fall in number before the airport opened for commercial flights in October 2017. In 2018 the resident population increased and subsequently fell in 2019 to around the same level as it was in 2014.

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