Distillers Trinidad and Tobago
A one-page guide to Trinidad and Tobago for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Port of Spain
- Official languages
- English
- Currency
- Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)
- Time zone
- UTC-4 (AST)
- Area
- 5,131 km²
People
- Population
- 1.4 million (2025)
- Population growth
- -0.0% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 54.0%
- Aged under 15
- 17.5%
- Aged 65 and over
- 12.9%
- Life expectancy
- 73.6 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$25.9 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$18,068 (2025)
- Economic growth
- -0.5% (2025)
- Inflation
- 1% (2025)
Climate
Maritime tropical: a dry season for roughly the first five months of the year and a rainy season for the remaining seven.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18; supplying alcohol to children prohibited
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 5.1 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Trinidad and Tobago (basics, climate); IMF DataMapper WEO (GDP, population, growth, inflation; retrieved 26 Oct 2026); UN Comtrade (HS 2208); WHO Global Health Observatory; Wikipedia - Legal drinking age; West Indies Rum & Spirits Producers' Association (WIRSPA, regional); Vinexpo Americas; WHO GISAH country profile - Trinidad and Tobago (2018). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.