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Introduction The 2023 Household Budget Survey (HBS) provides a comprehensive source of information on the country’s household sector, particularly expenditure. Apart from a housing and population census, an HBS is the most significant statistical ac... READ MORE

The Cayman Islands’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Report 2021, which presents the economic performance of the Islands using the GDP, is released today. The GDP estimate for 2021, which is based on data collected from businesses and other establishme... READ MORE

The Cayman Islands’ Compendium of Statistics 2021, released by the Economics and Statistics Office, is a comprehensive collection of statistics from various public and private sector data sources covering population, demographics, social and living c... READ MORE

The Fall Labour Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO) will begin on Sunday, 2nd October 2022. The LFS seeks to collect data on employed and unemployed persons in the Cayman Islands, as well as those who are not in... READ MORE

Economic activity in the Cayman Islands, as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP) in real terms, is estimated to have increased by 3.8% in the first three months of 2022. Indicators suggest that the growth in economic activity was broad-base... READ MORE

The total value of merchandise imports increased for the second quarter of 2022 as the economy showed continued growth. Imports for the second quarter stood at $387.56 million, an increase of 25.2 percent, resulting from higher imports of both Non-... READ MORE

Labour market estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) Spring 2022 show the unemployment rate (the proportion of unemployed persons to the total labour force) at 3.0%. The total labour force increased by 11.7% to reach 54,398 persons. The emplo... READ MORE

Pent-up demand and robust growth in financial services led to an expansion in domestic output for the year 2021, with real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimated to have expanded by 1.8 percent. This was the highlight of The Cayman Islands’ Annual Ec... READ MORE

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 12.1 percent in the second quarter of 2022 when compared to the same period in 2021. Eleven of the twelve CPI divisions recorded increases in average prices as education recorded a 0.6 percent decline. In... READ MORE

Demographic Characteristics The total population in 2021 stood at 71,432, comprising 71,105 persons living in households or non-institutions and 327 persons living in institutions (including prisons and dormitories). The non-institutional populatio... READ MORE