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British Virgin Islands

39,732

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+2612024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+96.3%from 20.24K
Life expectancy77.4 years2024
Fertility rate1.05births per woman · 2024
Urban population57.4%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How British Virgin Islands is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6475.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+10.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+2.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+153net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could British Virgin Islands look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 40.34K in 2050—2.2% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202439.47K
  2. 205040.34K
  3. 210027.89K
Median age in 205049.2years
Births in 2050264during the year
Deaths in 2050482during the year
Life expectancy81.6years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19607.95K
  2. 19709.93K
  3. 198011.13K
  4. 199015.7K
  5. 200020.24K
  6. 201027.68K
  7. 202037.14K
  8. 202539.73K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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