Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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Immigration detainees

2019

Not Available

Detained children

2017

4,692

International migrants

2019

101,390

Population

2020

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Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

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DETENTION, EXPULSION, AND INCARCERATION STATISTICS

Total number of immigration detainees by year
Not Available
2019
Total number of detained minors
Not Available
2017
Criminal prison population
412
2014
460
2013
Percentage of foreign prisoners
8.3
2014
7.8
2013
Prison population rate (per 100,000 of national population)
378
2014
422
2013

DEMOGRAPHICS AND IMMIGRATION-RELATED STATISTICS

Population
101,390
2020
109,000
2015
International migrants
4,692
2019
4,600
2015
International migrants as a percentage of the population
4.2
2015
Refugees
0
2015
Stateless persons
0
2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Gross Domestic Product per capita (in USD)
6,668
2014
Remittances to the country
32
2014
Net official development assistance (ODA) (in millions USD)
9.2
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
97 (High)
2015

DOMESTIC LAWS AND POLICIES

Legal tradition
Common law
2017

INTERNATIONAL LAW

International treaties
Ratification Year
ICRMW, International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
2010
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2010
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2010
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2010
PCRSR, Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
2003
CAT, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2001
CRSSP, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
1999
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1999
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1993
CRSR, Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
1993
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1981
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1981
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
1981
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1981
Individual complaints procedure
Acceptance Year
CRPD, Optional Protocol to o the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2010
2010
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1981
1981
Ratio of complaints procedures accepted
Observation Date
2/8
2/8
Regional legal instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
CBDP, Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Para) 1996
1996
Relevant recommendations of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2016
2017
No 2011

INSTITUTIONAL INDICATORS