Distillers Curaçao
A one-page guide to Curaçao for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Willemstad
- Official languages
- Dutch, Papiamentu, English
- Currency
- Caribbean guilder (XCG), replaced the Netherlands Antillean guilder on 1 July 2025
- Time zone
- UTC-4 (no DST)
- Area
- 444 km²
People
- Population
- 156,263 (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.2% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 91.5%
- Aged under 15
- 14.6%
- Aged 65 and over
- 17.3%
- Life expectancy
- 77.0 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$3.6 billion (2024)
- GDP per person
- US$22,833 (2024)
- Economic growth
- 5.03% (2024)
- Inflation
- 2.62% (2019)
Climate
Hot semi-arid climate. Dry season January to September, wetter October to December; mean temperatures run from about 26.6 C in January to 29.1 C in September, annual rainfall roughly 450-570 mm. Little humidity-driven spoilage but constant heat for storage.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Curaçao; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Wikipedia: Curaçao (liqueur). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.