The registration of Canadians abroad system is publicized through our website, all of our social media, and other opportunities to try to get Canadians to let us know where they're travelling, where they're going to be staying, and what their contact information is. I would say that there are different levels of uptake depending on how Canadians perceive the level of risk in the destination where they are going. If they are travelling to a place that is known to have significant security challenges, a much larger proportion of Canadians would be registered because they would understand that they have to be aware of their security environment and that we use that information, as the Government of Canada, to push information out proactively on deteriorating conditions, changes to the travel advisory, or warnings that local authorities might be giving out that we feel Canadians need to be aware of in those local circumstances. Also, it's more apt to be Canadians who are resident there long term.
With the travellers to destinations that are perceived as less risky or for Canadians who are travelling through a number of countries and aren't sure where they're going to be on different dates, it's a much lower rate of take-up. We saw this most recently in the Caribbean, where we had low numbers of Canadians registered, in some cases, but found that there were many times more Canadians who actually happened to be on that island on that particular day.
It's in our interest. Therefore, when we speak publicly, we use every opportunity we can to reach out to travel industry representatives and to Canadians through our social media, websites, and other media interactions to promote the use of these digital apps because we know that Canadians, particularly younger Canadians, are more apt to use it if it's on their mobile phone and they can register. It allows us to be proactive. It allows us to reach people that have already told us they're going to be in a place and we can tell them the latest information on the conditions that they're in, and for example, give them warnings to depart when we know that a storm is approaching and we know that they'll receive it.
What we found is that even the people who notify us that they're there sometimes don't notify us once they've left. We are tireless in our effort to reach people, even when communications are down. We go through the lists and we use those registries to try to track down Canadians. The level of take-up varies by state. I don't have the exact figures, but I can give you an example. In the country of Dominica, we had 15 Canadians registered when we were doing our planning before the storm and we found out that there were approximately 250 that were actually there. In that case, the take-up was not great, but that's a place where people didn't perceive their levels of risk and where there were many Canadians who were there just for short amounts of time. In other countries, it's higher.