Trinidadians and Tobagonians

{{short description|People identified with the country of Trinidad and Tobago}} {{Redirect|Trini}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Trinidadians and Tobagonians | flag = border|300px | flag_caption = National Flag of Trinidad and Tobago | population = '''{{circa}} 1.7 million''' | regions = {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} {{nbsp|6}} 1,405,646 {{small|(2022)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cso.gov.tt/|title=Home|first=Central Statistical Office|last=(CSO)}}</ref> | region2 = {{flag|United States}} | pop2 = 223,639 {{small|(2013 est.)}} <ref>[https://archive.today/20200212212618/http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ACS_12_1YR_B04003&prodType=table- Results  ] American Fact Finder (US Census Bureau)</ref> | region3 = {{flag|Canada}} | pop3 = 68,225 {{small|(2011)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=105396&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=|title=2011 National Household Survey: Data tables|date=8 May 2013|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> | region4 = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | pop4 = 25,000 {{small|(2013 est.)}}<ref name="2013 estimates">{{cite web|url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/august-2014/rft-table-2---population-by-cob.xls|title=Estimated overseas-born population resident in the United Kingdom by sex, by country of birth (Table 1.4)|publisher=Office for National Statistics|date=28 August 2014|access-date=24 April 2015}}</ref>  | langs = Trinidadian and Tobagonian English, Trinidadian English Creole, Tobagonian English Creole, Trinidadian Hindustani, Antillean French Creole, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/tt/languages|website=Ethnologue|title=Trinidad and Tobago|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.studycountry.com/guide/TT-language.htm|title=The languages spoken in Trinidad and Tobago}}</ref> | rels = Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Spiritual Baptist, Baháʼí, Orisha-Shango (Yoruba), Rastafari, Traditional African religions, Afro-American religions, Judaism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religions, Sikhism, Others | related = Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro–Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Chinese Trinidadians and Tobagonians, European Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Creoles, Douglas, Cocoa panyols, Island Caribs, Lokono, Arabs, Hispanics-Latin Americans, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans, Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadians, Trinidadian and Tobagonian British, Indo-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean Americans, British Indo-Caribbean people, Afro-Caribbean, British African-Caribbean people, Caribbean people }} '''Trinidadians and Tobagonians''', colloquially known as '''Trinis''' or '''Trinbagonians''', are the people who are identified with the country of Trinidad and Tobago. The population of Trinidad is notably diverse, with approximately 35% Indo-Trinidadian, 34% Afro-Trinidadian, and close to 30% Mixed (Particularly Dougla). The country is home to people of many different national, ethnic and religious origins. As a result, Trinidadians do not equate their nationality with race and ethnicity, but with citizenship, identification with the islands as whole, or either Trinidad or Tobago specifically. Although citizens make up the majority of Trinidadians, there is a substantial number of Trinidadian expatriates, dual citizens and descendants living worldwide, chiefly elsewhere in the Anglosphere.

==Population== {{Main|Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago}}

The total population of Trinidad and Tobago was 1,328,019 according to the 2011 census,<ref name="Census 2011">[http://www.cso.gov.tt/sites/default/files/content/images/census/TRINIDAD%20AND%20TOBAGO%202011%20Demographic%20Report.pdf Trinidad and Tobago 2011 Population and Housing Census Demographic Report] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502230527/http://www.cso.gov.tt/sites/default/files/content/images/census/TRINIDAD%20AND%20TOBAGO%202011%20Demographic%20Report.pdf |date=2 May 2013 }}</ref> an increase of 5.2 per cent since the 2000 census. According to the 2012 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was estimated at 1,328,000 in 2010, compared to only 646,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 20.7 per cent, 71 per cent was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 8.3 per cent was 65 years or older.<ref name="WPP 2012">{{cite web|url=http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm|website=Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat|title=World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417040158/http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm|archive-date=2014-04-17}}</ref>

==Ethnic groups== thumb|Distribution of ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago according to the 2011 census The ethnic composition of Trinidad and Tobago reflects a history of conquest and immigration.<ref>"{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/1959567.stm|title=Trouble in paradise|website=BBC News|date=2002-05-01}}</ref> While the earliest inhabitants were of Amerindian heritage, since the 20th century the two dominant groups in the country were those of South Asian and of African heritage.

===Indians-South Asian=== thumb|East Indian Coolies in Trinidad. Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians make up the country's largest ethnic group (approximately 35.43 percent). They are primarily descendants from indentured workers from South Asia and India, brought to replace freed African slaves who refused to continue working on the sugar plantations from other Islands. Through cultural preservation residents of Indian descent continue to maintain the religions and traditions from their ancestral homeland.<ref>[https://www.refworld.org/docid/49749c9a3c.html Trinidad and Tobago : East Indians]</ref>

===Sub-Saharan African=== Afro–Trinidadians and Tobagonians make up the country's second largest ethnic group, with approximately 34.22 percent of the population. Afro-Trinidadians are the descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans brought to the Trinidad and Tobago in the last few years of the Spanish colonial era and the beginning of the English colonial period through the trans-Atlantic slave trade.<ref>{{cite book|title=Trinidad and Tobago|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oD0mEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68}}</ref>

===Other origins=== Chinese, Amerindians, Europeans, Arabs, Hispanic/Latinos, Douglas (mixed Indian and African), multiracial people, and Jews, reside in Trinidad and Tobago. White Trinidadians are descendants of Spanish, British, French, Corsican, Portuguese or German settlers. A small mixed indigenous Carib population is present around the Santa Rosa Carib Community. There is also a Cocoa panyol population who are of Spanish, indigenous, and African descent who came from Venezuela between the late 19th and early 20th century to work on the cocoa estates.<ref>[https://www.refworld.org/docid/4954ce55c.html World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Trinidad and Tobago]</ref>

==Emigration== Emigration from Trinidad and Tobago, as with other Caribbean nations, has historically been high; most emigrants go to the United States, Canada, and Britain. Emigration has continued, albeit at a lower rate, even as the birth-rate sharply dropped to levels typical of industrialised countries. Largely because of this phenomenon, as of 2011, Trinidad and Tobago has been experiencing a low population growth rate (0.48 per cent).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4EzEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA356|title=Ethnic Groups of the Americas}}</ref>

==Famous Trinidadians and Tobagonians== {{main|List of Trinidadians and Tobagonians}}

==References== {{reflist}} {{commonscat}} {{People of Trinidad and Tobago}}

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