We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the top floor of the Post Office Building, Jamestown.
The Statistics Office has today released new estimates of average incomes from full-time employment for the 2020/21 financial year. The estimated median annual before-tax wage rose to £8,880, an increase of 1.5% compared to the previous year when price inflation is taken into account. This is a small increase year-on-year, but average wage levels are still lower than they were in 2016/17 and 2017/18.
Chart 1. Median annual gross wages from full-time employment, 2012/13 to 2020/21, in constant 2020/12 prices (i.e. adjusted for price inflation)
The median is the usual measure of average incomes or wages, because it is less sensitive to small numbers of relatively high wage earners in a population than the mean, which is the more common method used in other statistics. A median wage level of £8,880 means that, for 2020/21, half of gross wages from locally-recruited employment were less than £8,880, and half were higher.
The estimates are derived from records maintained by the Income Tax Office using methodology consistent with previous releases. Only incomes from employment above an analysis cut-off (set around the level of a single-person Income Related Benefit) are included; any income from self-employment and investment is excluded. Incomes of persons employed by St Helena Government following international recruitment (known as Technical Cooperation Officers) are not considered typical and so are also excluded from the statistics on incomes.
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the top floor of the Post Office Building, Jamestown.
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the top floor of the Post Office Building, Jamestown.
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the top floor of the Post Office Building, Jamestown.
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the top floor of the Post Office Building, Jamestown.
The St Helena Statistics Office has today released new population projections for 2022 to 2051. Population projections are produced to help policy makers and businesses understand how current demographic patterns are likely to shape the future size of different groups of the population.
The projections use the baseline population from the 2021 Population Census, estimates of expected births and deaths, and five different scenarios for the migration of residents, including no net migration, 20 more residents leaving than returning each year, and 20 and 40 more residents arriving than leaving each year.
The projections point to a fall in the total population and the number of residents of working age (see chart), and an increase in the number of residents aged 65 and over. The only migration scenario used which results in an increase in the resident population is one where 40 more residents arrive than leave each year. Even then, the population is projected to remain below 5,000 by 2051, and the number of residents of working age still falls slightly.
Chart: Resident population aged 15-64 (working age), 1976-2021 plus projections for 2022-2051 under different migration scenarios
The number of people working and living on St Helena has an effect on the size of St Helena’s customer base and private sector revenues, and the amount of taxes collected and used to fund government services, such as schools, health care, and infrastructure. The Labour Market Strategy was developed in order to provide a response to the trend of falling working age population numbers on St Helena, and is available at: https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/labour-market-strategy-2020-2035/
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the first floor of the Castle, Jamestown.
St Helena in Figures is a 16-page booklet with charts of indicators and trends about St Helena’s population and its economy; each chart is accompanied by a short commentary explaining the data and providing further context.
‘St Helena At A Glance’ provides a one-page summary of the latest headline figures about St Helena: the population, gross domestic product (GDP), price inflation, median income, passenger arrivals and departures, and the annual number of births and deaths.
Each publication will be updated when new data are released, and together they replace the previous two-page ‘St Helena in Figures’ publication.
Please contact the Statistics Office (+290 22138, or statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh) with any queries or comments about these two new publications.
We welcome comments and suggestions on any of the statistics published by the Statistics Office. Please email: statistics@sainthelena.gov.sh, call tel: 22138, or visit the office in person on the first floor of the Castle, Jamestown.
