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Virgin Islands (U.S.)

103,792

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-5852024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-4.5%from 108.64K
Life expectancy80.8 years2024
Fertility rate1.97births per woman · 2024
Urban population95.4%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Virgin Islands (U.S.) is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1416.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6460.4%Working-age population
Ages 65+23.1%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 rate11.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+1.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-357net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Virgin Islands (U.S.) look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 71.23K in 2050—16.1% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202484.91K
  2. 205071.23K
  3. 210061.96K
Median age in 205042.3years
Births in 2050759during the year
Deaths in 20501.1Kduring the year
Life expectancy80.8years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 196032.5K
  2. 197063.48K
  3. 198099.64K
  4. 1990103.96K
  5. 2000108.64K
  6. 2010108.36K
  7. 2020106.29K
  8. 2025103.79K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/21/2026

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