British Virgin Islands

جزر العذراء البريطانيةব্রিটিশ ভার্জিন দ্বীপপুঞ্জBritische JungferninselnΒρετανικές Παρθένοι ΝήσοιIslas Vírgenes Británicasجزایر ویرجین بریتانیاîles Vierges britanniquesאיי הבתולה הבריטייםब्रिटिश वर्जिन द्वीपसमूहイギリス領ヴァージン諸島영국령 버진아일랜드Британские Виргинские острова

DependencyLatin America and the Caribbean, Americas

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Population

39,849

2026 · UN WPPProjection

Life expectancy

77.8 years

2026 · UN WPPProjection

Area

150 km²

2023 · World Bank WDIActual

UN WPP 2024 Revision (estimates through 2023; 2024–2100 medium-variant projections). World Bank WDI, 13 July 2026 release. UNDP HDR HDR 2025. UNESCO UIS UIS February 2026. ILOSTAT ILOSTAT December 2025. IMF WEO WEO April 2026. OWID CO₂ OWID CO₂ December 2025.

Overview

British Virgin Islands is dependency in Latin America and the Caribbean, Americas.

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ISO alpha-2: VG
ISO alpha-3: VGB
UN M49: 092
Wikidata: Q25305

People

Population stocks and demographic rates are from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 medium variant unless another source is named. Years from 2024 onward are projections.

PopulationProjection: 39,849
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Population (1 July)Projection: 39,936
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Population growth rateProjection: 0.4 percent
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Population densityProjection: 259.3 persons per km²
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s density is above the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 102.3 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and above the median of 90.1 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Median ageProjection: 39.1 years
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s median age is above the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 35.7 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and above the median of 29.8 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Population sex ratioProjection: 89.8 males per 100 females
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Total fertility rateProjection: 1.1 live births per woman
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s tfr is below the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 1.6 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and below the median of 2 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Crude birth rateProjection: 8 per 1,000 population
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Net number of migrantsProjection: 105
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Net migration rateProjection: 2.6 per 1,000 population
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Urban population: 57.4%
2025 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
British Virgin Islands’s urban is below the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 72% (42 profiles with 2025 data), and below the median of 63.4% among 194 core profiles with 2025 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Population ages 0–14: 14.1%
2025 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
Population ages 15–64: 75.8%
2025 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
Population ages 65 and above: 10.1%
2025 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
British Virgin Islands’s ages 65+ is below the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 10.8% (42 profiles with 2025 data), and above the median of 7.4% among 194 core profiles with 2025 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.

Population of British Virgin Islands. Solid line: estimates (1950–2023). Dashed line: medium-variant projections (2024–2100). UN WPP, WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium.

Data table

Year	Population	Status
1950	7,347	estimate
1960	7,883	estimate
1970	9,848	estimate
1980	11,002	estimate
1990	15,434	estimate
2000	19,981	estimate
2010	27,671	estimate
2020	36,645	estimate
2030	40,521	projection
2040	41,208	projection
2050	40,433	projection
2060	38,484	projection
2070	35,553	projection
2080	32,599	projection
2090	30,063	projection
2100	27,999	projection
2101	27,781	projection

Age structure of British Virgin Islands as a share of population. World Bank WDI, World Development Indicators.

Data table

Year	Ages 65+	Status
1960	5.2% aged 65+	actual
1965	4.8% aged 65+	actual
1970	4.4% aged 65+	actual
1975	4.9% aged 65+	actual
1980	5.9% aged 65+	actual
1985	5.4% aged 65+	actual
1990	5.2% aged 65+	actual
1995	5% aged 65+	actual
2000	4.6% aged 65+	actual
2005	4.9% aged 65+	actual
2010	5.9% aged 65+	actual
2015	6.9% aged 65+	actual
2020	8.3% aged 65+	actual
2025	10.1% aged 65+	actual

Economy

National accounts and related World Bank series. Totals are not comparable as “averages” across countries; rates such as GDP per capita include same-year cohort medians where coverage allows.

Gross domestic product: —
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GDP per capita: —
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Access to electricity: 100%
2024 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
Individuals using the Internet: 77.7%
2017 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators

Development

Human development indices are published only from the latest UNDP HDR series. This build does not invent a substitute index.

Human Development Index: No comparable data
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Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index: No comparable data
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Gender Development Index: No comparable data
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Gender Inequality Index: No comparable data
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Multidimensional Poverty Index: No comparable data
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Health and education

Life expectancy and mortality are UN WPP series unless labelled otherwise. Education figures are UNESCO UIS (CC BY-SA, isolated) where a comparable series exists; otherwise they stay missing.

Life expectancy at birthProjection: 77.8 years
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s life expectancy is close to Latin America and the Caribbean median of 76.7 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and above the median of 74.1 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Crude death rateProjection: 6.3 per 1,000 population
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
Life expectancy at birth (male)Projection: 75 years
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s life exp. male is close to Latin America and the Caribbean median of 74.1 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and above the median of 70.9 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Life expectancy at birth (female)Projection: 80.5 years
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s life exp. female is close to Latin America and the Caribbean median of 79.7 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and above the median of 77.4 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Infant mortality rateProjection: 10.1 per 1,000 live births
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s infant mortality is above the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 9.7 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and below the median of 11.1 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Under-five mortality rateProjection: 11.6 per 1,000 live births
2026 · UN WPP · Projection · WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium
British Virgin Islands’s u5mr is close to Latin America and the Caribbean median of 11.7 (50 profiles with 2026 data), and below the median of 12.9 among 195 core profiles with 2026 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
Prevalence of undernourishment: No comparable data
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Adult literacy rate: No comparable data
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Youth literacy rate: No comparable data
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Mean years of schooling: 8.7 years
1991 · UNESCO UIS · Actual · UIS Bulk Data Download Service (February 2026)
School life expectancy: 12.5 years
2024 · UNESCO UIS · Actual · UIS Bulk Data Download Service (February 2026)

Life expectancy at birth in British Virgin Islands. Dashed line marks medium-variant projections. UN WPP, WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium.

Data table

Year	Years	Status
1950	53.3	estimate
1960	62.7	estimate
1970	66.4	estimate
1980	69.6	estimate
1990	72.4	estimate
2000	74.8	estimate
2010	76.3	estimate
2020	76.9	estimate
2030	78.4	projection
2040	80.1	projection
2050	81.6	projection
2060	83.1	projection
2070	84.4	projection
2080	85.6	projection
2090	86.8	projection
2100	87.9	projection

Environment

Forest cover is World Bank WDI. CO₂ is the Global Carbon Project series via Our World in Data — not IEA-EDGAR.

Land area: 150 km²
2023 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
Surface area: 150 km²
2023 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
Forest area: 24.1%
2023 · World Bank WDI · Actual · World Development Indicators
British Virgin Islands’s forest is below the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 44.6% (42 profiles with 2023 data), and below the median of 31.8% among 194 core profiles with 2023 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.
CO₂ emissions: 0.2 million tonnes
2024 · OWID / Global Carbon Project · Actual · OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project)
CO₂ emissions per capita: 4.9 tonnes per person
2024 · OWID / Global Carbon Project · Actual · OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project)
British Virgin Islands’s co₂ / capita is above the Latin America and the Caribbean median of 3 (41 profiles with 2024 data), and above the median of 2.8 among 192 core profiles with 2024 data. Unweighted medians of the same-year cohort; not a population-weighted world average.

CO₂ emissions of British Virgin Islands. Global Carbon Project via Our World in Data. OWID / Global Carbon Project, OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project).

Data table

Year	Million tonnes	Status
1962	0	actual
1966	0	actual
1970	0	actual
1974	0	actual
1978	0	actual
1982	0	actual
1986	0.1	actual
1990	0.1	actual
1994	0.1	actual
1998	0.1	actual
2002	0.1	actual
2006	0.2	actual
2010	0.2	actual
2014	0.2	actual
2018	0.2	actual
2022	0.2	actual
2024	0.2	actual

Geography

Region: Americas
Subregion: Latin America and the Caribbean
Intermediate region: Caribbean
Natural Earth ADM0_A3: VGB
Cartographic size: Tiny state on the 50m globe (point or small polygon)

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Government

Classification is descriptive and is not a recognition of legal claims.Map and status policy.

Status: Dependency
Publication tier: Additional profile
Related ISO alpha-3: GBR
SIDS: Small island developing State

Sources

United Nations World Population Prospects

WPP2024 Demographic Indicators Medium. Vintage 2024 Revision. CC BY 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-09-03. Source file.

Population (2026, projection; series TPopulation1Jan)
Life expectancy at birth (2026, projection; series LEx)
Population (1 July) (2026, projection; series TPopulation1July)
Population growth rate (2026, projection; series PopGrowthRate)
Population density (2026, projection; series PopDensity)
Median age (2026, projection; series MedianAgePop)
Population sex ratio (2026, projection; series PopSexRatio)
Total fertility rate (2026, projection; series TFR)
Crude birth rate (2026, projection; series CBR)
Crude death rate (2026, projection; series CDR)
Life expectancy at birth (male) (2026, projection; series LExMale)
Life expectancy at birth (female) (2026, projection; series LExFemale)
Infant mortality rate (2026, projection; series IMR)
Under-five mortality rate (2026, projection; series Q5)
Net number of migrants (2026, projection; series NetMigrations)
Net migration rate (2026, projection; series CNMR)

World Bank World Development Indicators

World Development Indicators. Vintage 13 July 2026. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-09-03. Source file.

Land area (2023, actual; series AG.LND.TOTL.K2)
Urban population (2025, actual; series SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS)
Population ages 0–14 (2025, actual; series SP.POP.0014.TO.ZS)
Population ages 15–64 (2025, actual; series SP.POP.1564.TO.ZS)
Population ages 65 and above (2025, actual; series SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS)
Surface area (2023, actual; series AG.SRF.TOTL.K2)
Access to electricity (2024, actual; series EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS)
Individuals using the Internet (2017, actual; series IT.NET.USER.ZS)
Forest area (2023, actual; series AG.LND.FRST.ZS)
Alternate: Population (2025, actual; series SP.POP.TOTL)
Alternate: Life expectancy at birth (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.LE00.IN)
Alternate: Population growth rate (2025, actual; series SP.POP.GROW)
Alternate: Population density (2023, actual; series EN.POP.DNST)
Alternate: Total fertility rate (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.TFRT.IN)
Alternate: Crude birth rate (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.CBRT.IN)
Alternate: Crude death rate (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.CDRT.IN)
Alternate: Life expectancy at birth (male) (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN)
Alternate: Life expectancy at birth (female) (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN)
Alternate: Infant mortality rate (2024, actual; series SP.DYN.IMRT.IN)
Alternate: Under-five mortality rate (2024, actual; series SH.DYN.MORT)
Alternate: Net number of migrants (2025, actual; series SM.POP.NETM)

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

UIS Bulk Data Download Service (February 2026). Vintage UIS February 2026. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-09-03. Source file.

Mean years of schooling (1991, actual; series MYS.1T8.AG25T99)
School life expectancy (2024, actual; series SLE.1T8)

Our World in Data (Global Carbon Project)

OWID CO2 data (Global Carbon Project). Vintage OWID CO₂ December 2025. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-09-03. Source file.

CO₂ emissions (2024, actual; series co2)
CO₂ emissions per capita (2024, actual; series co2_per_capita)

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