Population:225,369 (July 2008 est.)
Age structure:0-14 years: 23.2% (male 26,749/female 25,467) 15-64 years: 67.5% (male 73,319/female 78,842) 65 years and over: 9.3% (male 8,541/female 12,451) (2008 est.)
Median age:total: 33.4 years male: 31.6 years female: 35.2 years (2008 est.)
Population growth rate:0.754% (2008 est.)
Birth rate:14.37 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Death rate:6.43 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Net migration rate:-0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
Nationality:noun: Dutch Antillean(s) adjective: Dutch Antillean
Ethnic groups:mixed black 85%, other 15% (includes Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian)
Religions:Roman Catholic 72%, Pentecostal 4.9%, Protestant 3.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3.1%, Methodist 2.9%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.7%, other Christian 4.2%, Jewish 1.3%, other or unspecified 1.2%, none 5.2% (2001 census)
Languages:Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)
Literacy:definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 96.7% male: 96.7% female: 96.8% (2003 est.)
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