Saint Lucia national data observatory
Official statistics deserve more than tables. Explore the systems, trajectories and trade-offs shaping Saint Lucian life.
Saint Lucia now
Five releases tell a more demanding story than any single headline. Official values stay distinct from SLPA calculations and interpretation.
−2.0 pp year on year
The quarterly survey estimates 98,837 people employed and 13,576 unemployed. Q1 is not directly interchangeable with the 2025 annual average.
Q1 −2.4% · Q2 −3.2%
Q2 accommodation and food fell 8.0%, construction 9.1% and wholesale/retail 5.7%; manufacturing rose 8.5%.
−5.5% from 2024
Recent totals omit excursionists. Segment shares are calculated from the published arrival components.
exports cover 9.9% of imports
SLPA recalculates the balance as exports minus imports because several published balance signs are inconsistent.
2024 −0.8% · 2022 9.7%
The headline uses the CSO revised annual series where standalone CPI releases conflict.
Official-data views
Explore work, economy, people and essential systems. Every view keeps its reference period, exact values, official source and analytical limits attached.
18 interactive views · newest: Q1 2026
The newest Labour Force release becomes a direct Q1-to-Q1 comparison, separating the national improvement from the groups still furthest from work.
What the table saysOverall unemployment was 12.1%, down from 14.1% in Q1 2025. Women were at 16.2%, men at 8.0% and youth at 18.4%.
SLPA inferenceThe next labour-market test is whether gains close the gender and youth gaps while employment quality improves.
| Group | Q1 2025 | Q1 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 14.1% | 12.1% | -2.0 pp |
| Women | 19.1% | 16.2% | -2.9 pp |
| Men | 9.0% | 8.0% | -1.0 pp |
| Youth | 21.4% | 18.4% | -3.0 pp |
Reading noteQuarterly survey estimates are subject to sampling variation. Q1-to-Q1 comparisons avoid mixing this release with the 2025 annual average; the 8.2-point gender gap is an SLPA subtraction.
Open the official pageThe official data atlas
Search the complete published subject structure, see archive depth at a glance and open every collection at the Central Statistical Office.
Beyond the tables
Maps, reports, classifications, instruments, Census databases and survey systems are part of the evidence infrastructure. They belong in the same public doorway.
The official sitemap exposes 672 embedded tables; the office-wide directory reaches about 455 after redirects and Crime drill-downs. SLPA’s coverage audit follows the wider archive.
The CSO’s top-level doorway to tables, databases and public data services.
Open official systemTBDataThe office-wide directory of published statistical tables and downloads.
Open official systemDBDataDirect access to legacy Census databases and query systems.
Open official systemRQDataThe official route for information not already available as a public table.
Open official systemMPData29 map PDFs plus two image maps; no machine-readable shapefile is currently exposed.
Open official systemPBData113 unique reports spanning Census, labour, GDP, poverty, crime and digests.
Open official systemINDataTwelve official snapshots across seven labour, economic and survey topics.
Open official systemCLMethodsSeventeen district, settlement, occupation, industry and product resources.
Open official systemMDMethodsFour current documentation resources—a thin layer relative to the data archive.
Open official systemQUMethodsThirteen questionnaire PDFs plus the current MICS survey gateway.
Open official systemSDMethodsSaint Lucia’s Agenda 2030 framework; the current page is narrative, not an indicator dashboard.
Open official systemCEPopulation2022 and historical Census databases through the REDATAM system.
Open official systemSVPopulationThe top-level official gateway to living-conditions and household surveys.
Open official systemHBPopulationLiving-conditions, poverty and household-budget evidence and queries.
Open official systemMIPopulationSix questionnaires and fieldwork material; national validation advanced in July 2026, with final MICS 7 results still pending.
Open official systemNRCurrentCurrent methods updates and public notices on a static release page.
Open official systemData integrity
Every value retains its official source, observation period, revision status and any calculation used in the analysis.
Open CSO metadataCSO or named public producer
Clean chart, label and comparison
Explicitly marked SLPA analysis
The provisional 2022 Census count of 172,948 should not be silently joined to later Labour Force Survey modelled household-population estimates.
Use the office’s caution note and prefer the current published headline series until corrected tables are identified.
The official visitor-arrivals table has no 2021 series. The timeline retains a visible gap instead of drawing a false line.
Some published balance values omit a minus sign. Imports, domestic exports and re-exports remain visible so readers can verify the relationship.
The current quarterly level table does not state seasonal adjustment and estimates may revise. Each quarter is compared with the same quarter one year earlier.
Some standalone 2025 CPI values differ from the revised summary. Headline views use the revised series and keep the version visible.
Banking ends in 2019, greenhouse gases in 2010, transport mostly in 2020 and electricity in 2023. Every view uses the observation period—not the page-modified date.
Two additional subject shells contain no published data block and therefore do not enter the 16-domain count.
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