Distillers Country guides / Dominica
Dominica
A one-page guide to Dominica for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Roseau
- Official languages
- English
- Currency
- East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
- Time zone
- UTC-4
- Area
- 751 km²
People
- Population
- 65,871 (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.5% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 74.0%
- Aged under 15
- 17.6%
- Aged 65 and over
- 13.2%
- Life expectancy
- 71.3 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$723.9 million (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$10,989 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 3.05% (2025)
- Inflation
- 2.53% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 16 (per Wikipedia table citing Liquor Licences Act Ch. 70:03)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 5.02 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 27%, wine 3%, spirits 70% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Dominica; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Uncommon Caribbean: Macoucherie rum distillery. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.