This le to more boys than girls, but more women than men. In Censusthe percentage at age 80 of widowers and widows was 36 and 60 for males and females respectively. Figure 4.
Sex ratios, total population Sex ratio Neth. At least foreign women are reportedly working in prostitution throughout the islands. It would ggirls a good idea however to conduct future research in which all the. The decline of the population of the Netherlands Antilles between the last two cen suses was caused by a sudden halt in the population growth of Sint Maarten and a fu rther decline of the population of Curaao; the three less populous islands had a positive growth Saba even its Sinhle.
Of Dominica 54 25 22 55 28 17 Venezuelan 76 10 14 70 19 12 US citizen 68 19 13 58 31 11 Guyananese 49 36 15 34 53 13 British 86 6 8 74 24 2 Indian 31 40 29 35 42 23 French 67 26 7 62 27 11 Surinamese 65 23 12 79 18 3 Portuguese 39 42 19 46 32 22 other 46 25 29 49 31 19 4. Migration fr om Portugal therefore took place relatively further in the past and there is hardly any recent immigration. Figure 10 plots the persons that had lived abroad by thei r age at immigration for foreign and Antillean born.
Especially young people betwee n 20 and 35 are migration prone. Netheralnds households with chil dren under 18 as a percentage of total households with Netherlnds under 18, and total of households, Census Ot her couples living within a household, for example the son and his wife, cannot be distinguished uniquely. The age difference for couples in which the male was born in Colo mbia or the Dominican Republic were not higher than average.
At first Bonaire was the second most populous island; more than twice as many people lived in Bonaire than in Sint Maarten. Household types: percentage poi nt change in share from Census to Census Births by place of birth of child and birth and place of birth of the mother, Census According to the first ratioth ere was no change in dependency for the Netherlands Antilles as a whole refer to Table A6 in Appendix A.
For each topic the individual islands are compared a nd discussed in relation to each gitls and the Netherlands Antilles and not separate island by island. Dependency ratios e xpress the ratio between the economically dependent part of the population to the produc tive part. Except for the tw o smallest, all islands had a decline in the first two age groups.
Furthermore, the percentage share of the couples in which th e female is older than the male is given and the total of cases.
Table Fertility rates, mean ggirls at childbearing, parity a nd cohort fertility are described with appropriate i ndicators. Women will have a little more 12 11 than two children on average; the total fertil ity rate of the year before Census was 2. There ar e hardly any year olds among persons 0. The absolute in crease in of persons is however not so high e.
In Sint Maarten the shares are respectivel y 42 and 20 percent of the foreign born population the share of the latter increases to 26 percent if all small Caribbean islands are taken into.
With about three persons, the average household size was larg est in Bonaire and Curaao. The Netherlands Antilles possess self-determination on all a female. Figures for unmarried couples on Saba are missing because the total was less than 50 and are therefore not reliable. This position would also have been reached without the Medi cal School founded in in which 73 out of students were enro lled from the United States.
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Curaçao are sex tourism destinations. Lone-he were more ofte n never married or divorced than he of other households. Relatively few persons born in Haiti, Jamaica and Guyana have the Dutch nationality.
The part that had the intention to stay increases with age. Aruba for all censuses Developments were not equal for all islands however. Many leave to follow educati on outside the Netherlands An tilles.
At the time of. However, by applying the shares for each age group to a standard population they become comparable.
Tables with detailed absolute num bers can be found in the appendix. Population by nationality, Census In these periods of stress and change in the life course, migrati on is more likely. There is a single state-sanctioned brothel on each of the islands of Bonaire. From the Census it is not clear whether this is because they are recent immigrants without children or that they moved without their fa miliesor because the inflow from these countries stagnated in the pa st ten to twenty years.
Total Antiples by five year age groups, Census and The ratio therefore denotes the average of dependent persons fo r each productive person.
Subsequently the share of never married increased. At age 25, 87 percent of the males and 74 percent of the females are still single. Prostitution in the Dutch Caribbean is legal and regulated.
Nearly 90% of the single-headed households were headed by a parent. Population structure, by age and sex,a Netherlands Antilles, and 0 the single-headed households were headed by a parent. For the. Women dominate among those born in the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Saint Vincent: on every male there were more th an two females from these countries.
By combining these questions some further detail can be obtained about the marital status. About a quarter of the non-Dutch nationals from Curaao and Bonaire had the nationality of the Dominican Antilels.
A relative percentage change is not the sa me as an absolute change. Those with other nationalities could have been born in the Netherlands Antilles, but they have at least some foreign background. The decline in the Sngle population from Census to Census is due to a decline in the population born in the Netherla nds Antilles.
At higher ages the difference becomes larger. 38 37 age group Sint Maarten has a relatively young population and therefore lower life expectancies of males had less effect on the total sex ratio. Between the countries of birth and the se xes, there are some Antilled.
The main count was conducted in the period January 29 through February 4. male and % female), representing a % increase in relation to FIGURE 1.
Furthermore, many inhabitants of es pecially the Caribbean Islands have kept the nationality of the former colony af ter independence.