Distillers Country guides / Grenada
Grenada
A one-page guide to Grenada for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- St. George's
- Official languages
- English
- Currency
- Eastern Caribbean dollar (XCD)
- Time zone
- UTC-4 (AST)
- Area
- 344 km²
People
- Population
- 117,303 (2025)
- Population growth
- 0.1% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 36.7%
- Aged under 15
- 19.0%
- Aged 65 and over
- 12.6%
- Life expectancy
- 75.4 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$1.4 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$12,107 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 4.41% (2025)
- Inflation
- 0.61% (2025)
Climate
Tropical: hot and humid in the dry season, cooled by moderate rainfall in the rainy season. Temperatures range 22-32 C and are rarely below 18 C.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 16 for on-premise sales; no national minimum for off-premise sales (WHO 2018 country profile, status 2016: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/country-profiles/substances-abuse/GRD.pdf)
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 8.27 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
- What people drink
- Beer 41%, wine 7%, spirits 48%, other 4% (2016)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Grenada; WHO country profile GRD; Rum writer site: Grenada distilleries. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.