Distillers Bermuda
A one-page guide to Bermuda for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Hamilton
- Official languages
- English
- Currency
- Bermudian dollar (BMD)
- Time zone
- UTC-4 (UTC-3 summer)
- Area
- 4,290 km²
People
- Population
- 64,555 (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.1% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 100%
- Aged under 15
- 13.4%
- Aged 65 and over
- 22.6%
- Life expectancy
- 82.5 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$9.2 billion (2024)
- GDP per person
- US$142,250 (2024)
- Economic growth
- 1.89% (2024)
Climate
Tropical-influenced oceanic: warm winters, hot summers; mean daily highs about 20.7 C (January) to 30.1 C (August); about 1,454 mm of rain a year (wettest October, driest April-May); tropical cyclones usually weaken before arrival.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18 shown in the table's de jure column; selling or serving to under-18s prohibited
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 11.0 litres of pure alcohol (2024)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); World Bank API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); WHO GHO OData (SA_0000001688); UN Comtrade public preview API (HS 2208); Wikipedia: Bermuda; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Gosling Brothers. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.