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.
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.