Distillers Country guides / Turks and Caicos Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands
A one-page guide to the Turks and Caicos Islands for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Cockburn Town (Grand Turk)
- Official languages
- English
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Time zone
- UTC-5 (EST); UTC-4 in summer
- Area
- 948 km²
People
- Population
- 50,828 (2024)
- Population growth
- 0.7% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 94.4%
- Aged under 15
- 16.0%
- Aged 65 and over
- 11.7%
- Life expectancy
- 78.2 years
Climate
Tropical savanna with steady temperatures: summer highs rarely above 33 C and winter nights rarely below 18 C. Hurricanes are frequent (season dates not given in source).
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18; under-16s barred from premises mainly selling alcohol
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 13.7 litres of pure alcohol (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia - Turks and Caicos Islands (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. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.