Population grows three percent between 1990-98
Although it appears that mass migration is still ongoing, Guyana's population is growing, but at a very low rate. According to tables from the Bureau of Statistics between 1980 and 1998 the estimated end of year population has grown from 759,000 to 782,000 an increase of three percent or 23,427 people over 18 years. The lowest population total was in 1991 at 719,000. The eight percent increase in population since then up to 1998 was helped in part by a dramatic drop in infant mortality rates that in 1992 stood at 42.9 deaths per 1,000 births and were 22.9 deaths per 1000 in 1998. However, in a continuing pattern the first quarter of 1999 saw 7,268 more departures from the country than arrivals, continuing a pattern that has seen 49,197 more people or six percent of the present population leave these shores than arrive since 1996.
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