Editing Turks and Caicos Islands (section)

===Population===
{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Sources:<ref name=StatisticsYearbook2017/><ref name="tcweeklynews-2012">{{cite web |url=http://tcweeklynews.com/nonbelongers-account-for-per-cent-of-adult-population-population-g-p2768-128.htm |title=Non-Belongers account for 57.5 per cent of adult population - Population growth in sync with TCI's development, Forbes |last=Narine |first=Vanessa |date=6 May 2013 |website=Turks and Caicos Weekly News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130506192404/http://tcweeklynews.com/nonbelongers-account-for-per-cent-of-adult-population-population-g-p2768-128.htm |archive-date=6 May 2013 }}</ref>
|percentages =
|1911|5615
|1921|5522
|1943|6138
|1960|5668
|1970|5558
|1980|7413
|1990|11465
|2000|20014
|2012|31458
}}

Eight of the thirty islands in the territory are inhabited, with a total population estimated from preliminary results of the census of 25 January 2012 (released on 12 August 2012) of 31,458 inhabitants, an increase of 58.2% from the population of 19,886 reported in the 2001 census.<ref name=StatisticsYearbook2017/> July 2021 estimates put the population at 57,196.<ref name="cia.gov"/> One-third of the population is under 15 years old, and only 4% are 65 or older. In 2000 the population was growing at a rate of 3.55% per year. The infant mortality rate was 18.66 deaths per 1,000 live births and the life expectancy at birth was 73.28 years (71.15 years for males, 75.51 years for females). The total fertility rate was 3.25 children born per woman. The annual population growth rate is 2.82%.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

''[[The CIA World Factbook]]'' breaks down the islanders' ethnicity as [[Afro-Caribbean|African]] 87%, [[Demographics of Europe|Europe]]an 7.9%, [[Multiracial|Mixed]] 2.5.%, [[Indo-Caribbean|East Indian]] 1.3% and Other 0.7%.<ref name="cia.gov"/> There is a small Dominican and Haitian community on the islands.<ref name="cia.gov"/><ref name="britannica.com"/>

====Population by island====
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Island
!Capital
!Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
!data-sort-type=number|Population{{efn|Area and population data retrieved from the 2012 census.}}
!Native Taino Name
!Notes
|- style="background:#CEE0F2;"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:center;" |'''Caicos Islands'''
|-
||[[South Caicos]]||[[Cockburn Harbour]] ||style="text-align:right;"|21.2 ||style="text-align:right;"|2,013
|''Kasiba''
|
|-
|[[West Caicos]]||[[New Marina]]|| style="text-align:right;" |28 ||style="text-align:right;"|10
|''Makobisa''
|Resort staff only
|-
|[[Providenciales]]||Downtown Providenciales ||style="text-align:right;"|122 ||style="text-align:right;"|33,253
|''Yukanaka'' ''Yanikana''
|
|-
|[[Pine Cay]]||[[South Bay Village]]|| style="text-align:right;" |3.2 ||style="text-align:right;"|30
|''Buyana''
|Resort staff only
|-
|[[Parrot Cay]]||[[Parrot Cay Village]]|| style="text-align:right;" |5 ||style="text-align:right;"|90
|
|Half resort staff, half residential
|-
|[[North Caicos]] ||[[Bottle Creek]]|| style="text-align:right;" |116.4 ||style="text-align:right;"|2,066
|''Kaiko''
|
|-
|[[Middle Caicos]] ||[[Conch Bar Caves|Conch Bar]] ||style="text-align:right;"|136 ||style="text-align:right;"|522
|''Aniyana''
|
|-
|[[Ambergris Cay]]s ||[[Ambergris Cay|Big Ambergris Cay]] ||style="text-align:right;"|10.9 ||style="text-align:right;"|50
|
|
|-
|Other Caicos Islands ||[[East Caicos]]||style="text-align:right;"|146.5||style="text-align:right;"|0
|''Wana''
|
|- style="background:#CEE0F2;"
|colspan="6" style="text-align:center;"|'''Turks Islands'''
|-
|[[Grand Turk]] ||[[Cockburn Town]] ||style="text-align:right;"|17.6 ||style="text-align:right;"|8,051
|''Amuana''
|
|-
|[[Salt Cay, Turks Islands|Salt Cay]] ||[[Salt Cay, Turks Islands|Balfour Town]] ||style="text-align:right;"|7.1 ||style="text-align:right;"|315
|''Kanamani'' ''Kanomani''
|
|-
|Other Turks Islands||[[Cotton Cay]]|| style="text-align:right;" |2.4||style="text-align:right;"|0
|''Makarike''
|
|- style="background:#F2E0CE;" |class="sortbottom"
|'''Turks and Caicos Islands''' ||[[Cockburn Town]] ||style="text-align:right;"|616.3 ||style="text-align:right;"|49000<ref name="cia.gov"/>
|
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|}