Population of The Islands
According to the official estimates of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands Antilles, the five islands had a combined population of 199,929 as at 1 January 2009. The population of the individual islands was as follows:
Bonaire - 12,877
Curaçao - 141,766
Saba - 1,601
Sint Eustatius - 2,768
Sint Maarten - 40,917
For comparison : Aruba - 103,000
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