This page provides the main statistical resources that are available, organised into topics within three main categories: Population and Demography, The Economy, and Social, Community and Other.
Population & Demography
Population Census reports and data files: see Population Censuses page.
Population Estimates: latest Statistical Update issued July 2025; latest data file (Excel format) updated to December 2024, with monthly estimates of the population by age, sex, residency and nationality, the number of registered births ,deaths and marriages, total arrivals and departures, and annual estimates of birth and death rates and life expectancy at birth.
Population Projections: Latest report Population Projections 2022 to 2051 (PDF format) released in January 2022 (see also press release, 11 January 2022). Previous report Statistical Bulletin, Population Projections 2017 to 2026 (PDF format) released November 2017
Arrivals and Departures: latest Statistical Update, issued May 2025; latest data file (Excel format) updated to June 2025. Includes detailed indicators of passenger arrivals and departures by air and by sea.
Population of Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha: latest data file (Excel Format) updated to Quarter 2, 2024, released in August 2024. Includes quarterly estimates of the population of Ascension Island by nationality and Tristan Da Cunha by Islander status.
The Economy
Household Expenditure Surveys: See page on Surveys
Price Inflation and the Consumer Price Index: latest Statistical Update issued July 2025; latest Data file (Excel format), updated to Quarter 2 2025, released in July 2025. Includes the Consumer Price Index by category of expenditure, and estimates of annual and quarterly price inflation.
Purchasing Power Parity: Estimates between St Helena, UK, and US, Statistical Bulletin issued November 2016 (PDF format).
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): latest Statistical Bulletin on economic activity for 2023/24, issued July 2025; latest Data file (Excel format), estimates to 2023/24, (financial years), last updated in July 2025. Includes estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI), corresponding growth rates, value added by industrial sector, and GDP and GNI per capita.
External Trade: latest Statistical Update, imports of the value of goods to 2024/25, issued July 2025; latest data file (Excel format), annual (calendar years to 2024, financial years to 2024/25) and quarterly statistics to Quarter 1, 2025, updated in July 2025. Includes the value of imports and exports of goods by value and the estimated value of visitor expenditure to 2024.
Wages and Incomes: latest Statistical Bulletin, average gross incomes from employment, 2023/24, issued May 2025; latest data file (Excel format), annual to 2023/24 (financial years), last released in May 2025. Includes estimates of average gross incomes from full time employment, adjusted for inflation.
Exchange rates: Monthly data file to July 2025 released in August 2025 (Excel format). Includes average exchange rates of the St Helena pound to the South African Rand, Euro, and US Dollar
Production: Quarterly data file to Quarter 4, 2022, last released in May 2023 (Excel format). Includes estimates of livestock population, meat production, fish catches and sales, forestry and firewood production.
Construction: Quarterly data file to Quarter 4, 2023, last released in March 2024 (Excel format). Includes number of building permits issued, and statistics on construction activity.
Utilities: Quarterly data file to Quarter 1, 2024, last released in June 2024 (Excel format). Includes indicators on water and electricity supply and consumption.
Aid: Statistical Bulletin issued January 2019, (PDF format) Aid spending on behalf of St Helena, 2017. Annual data file updated to 2021, last released in June 2023 (Excel format). Includes estimates of aid spending by other countries on behalf of St Helena.
Social, Community, and Other
Health: Latest Statistical Bulletin (PDF format) issued in April 2023, including underlying cause of death, life expectancy by age and sex, and healthy life expectancy. Latest data file (Excel format), updated to 2023, released on October 29, 2024. Includes underlying Cause of Death, Life Expectancy by age and sex, and Healthy Life Expectancy by age and sex.
COVID-19: Statistical Bulletin on COVID-19 case prevalence rates in different countries, issued in September 2020 (PDF format); Statistical Bulletin on the potential impact of COVID-19 on St Helena Community issued in May 2020 (PDF format); Statistical Bulletin on the COVID-19 Country risk classification, published weekly from September 2020 until January 2021.
Human Development Index: latest Statistical Bulletin (PDF format), issued in May 2019; latest data file (Excel format) with annual data up to 2017, released in May 2019. Includes estimates of the HDI and the health, education and income components for St Helena, and global estimates and rankings for other countries.
Benefits: monthly data file to July 2025 (Excel format), released in August 2025. Includes number of people and households receiving social benefits, including the Basic Island Pension, Income Related Benefits, and Better Life Allowance.
Community: quarterly data file to Quarter 4 2022 (Excel format), released in May 2023. Includes estimates relating to community services, including Police, Fire & Rescue, and Judicial Services.
Vehicles: quarterly data file to Quarter 4, 2022 (Excel format), released in January 2023. Includes number and type of vehicles registered and licenced on St Helena
Climate: monthly data file up to March 2021 (Excel format), last released in July 2021. Includes humidity, rainfall, sunshine, wind, at selected locations.
Minimum Income Standard: Statistical Bulletin issued November 2019 (PDF format) (method prior to 2021).