Demographics of the British Virgin Islands

This is a demography of the population of the British Virgin Islands including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and various other aspects.

{{Historical populations

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|footnote = Source:

|title = Census population and average annual growth rate

|percentages = pagr

|1901 | 4908

|1911 | 5562

|1921 | 5082

|1946 | 6505

|1960 | 7921

|1970 | 9672

|1980 | 10985

|1991 | 16116

|2001 | 23161

|2010 | 28054

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Population

A July 2009 estimate placed the population of the British Virgin Islands at 24,491. In 2003, 21.9% of the population was under 15 (male 2,401; female 2,358), 73.1% between 15 and 64 (male 8,181; female 7,709), and 5% over 64 (male 578; female 503). 40% of the total population lived in urban areas, with an estimated 1.7% annual rate of urbanization. In 2014, the average woman produced 1.25 children.

The estimated population of is ().

Structure of the population

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|title= Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 12.VII.2010):

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{| class="wikitable"

! width="80pt"|Age group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80pt"|Female

! width="80pt"|Total

! width="80pt"|%

| align="right" | Total

| align="right" | 13 820

| align="right" | 14 234

| align="right" | 28 054

| align="right" | 100

| align="right" | 0–4

| align="right" | 1 126

| align="right" | 1 008

| align="right" | 2 134

| align="right" | 7.61

| align="right" | 5–9

| align="right" | 1 065

| align="right" | 1 025

| align="right" | 2 090

| align="right" | 7.45

| align="right" | 10–14

| align="right" | 1 032

| align="right" | 1 012

| align="right" | 2 044

| align="right" | 7.29

| align="right" | 15–19

| align="right" | 867

| align="right" | 900

| align="right" | 1 767

| align="right" | 6.30

| align="right" | 20–24

| align="right" | 789

| align="right" | 931

| align="right" | 1 720

| align="right" | 6.13

| align="right" | 25–29

| align="right" | 1 126

| align="right" | 1 190

| align="right" | 2 316

| align="right" | 8.26

| align="right" | 30–34

| align="right" | 1 165

| align="right" | 1 372

| align="right" | 2 537

| align="right" | 9.04

| align="right" | 35–39

| align="right" | 1 226

| align="right" | 1 373

| align="right" | 2 599

| align="right" | 9.26

| align="right" | 40–44

| align="right" | 1 236

| align="right" | 1 323

| align="right" | 2 559

| align="right" | 9.12

| align="right" | 45–49

| align="right" | 1 193

| align="right" | 1 145

| align="right" | 2 338

| align="right" | 8.33

| align="right" | 50–54

| align="right" | 962

| align="right" | 880

| align="right" | 1 842

| align="right" | 6.57

| align="right" | 55–59

| align="right" | 680

| align="right" | 707

| align="right" | 1 387

| align="right" | 4.94

| align="right" | 60–64

| align="right" | 541

| align="right" | 487

| align="right" | 1 028

| align="right" | 3.66

| align="right" | 65–69

| align="right" | 350

| align="right" | 320

| align="right" | 670

| align="right" | 2.39

| align="right" | 70–74

| align="right" | 204

| align="right" | 211

| align="right" | 415

| align="right" | 1.48

| align="right" | 75–79

| align="right" | 98

| align="right" | 132

| align="right" | 230

| align="right" | 0.82

| align="right" | 80–84

| align="right" | 91

| align="right" | 125

| align="right" | 216

| align="right" | 0.77

| align="right" | 85–89

| align="right" | 39

| align="right" | 45

| align="right" | 84

| align="right" | 0.30

| align="right" | 90+

| align="right" | 30

| align="right" | 48

| align="right" | 78

| align="right" | 0.28

! width="50"|Age group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80"|Female

! width="80"|Total

! width="50"|Per cent

| align="right" | 0–14

| align="right" | 3 223

| align="right" | 3 045

| align="right" | 6 268

| align="right" | 22.34

| align="right" | 15–64

| align="right" | 9 785

| align="right" | 10 308

| align="right" | 20 093

| align="right" | 71.62

| align="right" | 65+

| align="right" | 812

| align="right" | 881

| align="right" | 1 693

| align="right" | 6.03

Vital statistics

thumb|300px|Population, fertility rate and net reproduction rate, United Nations estimates

{| class="wikitable sortable sort-under sticky-header-multi" style="text-align:right;"

! width="70pt"|Average population (x 1000)

! width="70pt"|Live births

! width="70pt"|Deaths

! width="70pt"|Natural change

! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000)

! width="70pt"|TFR

| 1950

| 7

| 227|| 68|| 159

|30.5||9.1||21.4

| 1951

| 8

| 282|| 84|| 198

|37.6||11.2||26.4

| 1952

| 8

| 311|| 70|| 241

|41.1||9.3||style="color: blue"|31.9

| 1953

| 8

| 318|| 84|| 234

|style="color: blue"|41.8||11.0||30.8

| 1954

| 8

| 305|| 85|| 220

|39.9||11.1||28.8

| 1955

| 8

| 292|| 74|| 218

|38.0||9.6||28.4

| 1956

| 8

| 317|| 87|| 230

|41.0||11.3||29.8

| 1957

| 8

| 319|| 106|| 213

|41.0||style="color: red"|13.6||27.4

| 1958

| 8

| 315|| 93|| 222

|40.1||11.8||28.3

| 1959

| 8

| 306|| 84|| 222

|38.6||10.6||28.0

| 1960

| 8

| 279|| 67|| 212

|34.7||8.3||26.4

| 1961

| 8

| 257|| 79|| 178

|31.5||9.7||21.8

| 1962

| 8

| 277|| 70|| 207

|33.4||8.4||24.9

| 1963

| 8

| 264|| 67|| 197

|31.2||7.9||23.3

| 1964

| 9

| 225|| 75|| 150

|26.1||8.7||17.4

| 1965

| 9

| || ||

| 1966

| 9

| || ||

| 1967

| 9

| 225|| 70|| 155

|24.4||7.6||16.8

| 1968

| 9

| 288|| 63|| 225

|30.6||6.7||23.9

| 1969

| 10

| 238|| 74|| 164

|24.7||7.7||17.0

| 1970

| 10

| 313|| 67|| 246

|31.9||6.8||25.1

| 1971

| 10

| 297|| 66|| 231

|29.8||6.6||23.2

| 1972

| 10

| 307|| 67|| 240

|30.3||6.6||23.7

| 1973

| 10

| 252|| 71|| 181

|24.6||6.9||17.6

| 1974

| 10

| 247|| 79|| 168

|23.8||7.6||16.2

| 1975

| 10

| 221|| 65|| 156

|21.1||6.2||14.9

| 1976

| 11

| 243|| 62|| 181

|23.0||5.9||17.2

| 1977

| 11

| 206|| 62|| 144

|19.4||5.9||13.6

| 1978

| 11

|style="color: red"| 203|| 65|| 138

|19.0||6.1||12.9

| 1979

| 11

| 216|| 63|| 153

|20.0||5.8||14.2

| 1980

| 11

| 272|| 69|| 203

|24.7||6.3||18.4

| 1981

| 11

| 231|| style="color: blue"|53|| 178

|20.4||4.7||15.7

| 1982

| 12

| 235|| 67|| 168

|20.1||5.7||14.3

| 1983

| 12

| 281|| 61|| 220

|23.0||5.0||18.0

| 1984

| 13

| 225|| 66|| 159

|17.7||5.2||12.5

| 1985

| 13

| 241|| 65|| 176

|18.1||4.9||13.2

| 1986

| 14

| 213|| 82|| 131

|15.3||5.9||9.4

| 1987

| 15

| 263|| 83|| 180

|18.0||5.7||12.3

| 1988

| 15

| 237|| 59|| 178

|15.5||3.9||11.7

| 1989

| 16

| 244|| 77|| 167

|15.3||4.8||10.5

| 1990

| 16

| || ||

| 1991

| 17

| 303|| 77|| 226

|17.9||4.5||13.3

| 1992

| 17

| 290|| 90|| 200

|16.7||5.2||11.5

| 1993

| 18

| 318|| 76|| 242

|18.0||4.3||13.7

| 1994

| 18

| 298|| 105|| 193

|16.5||5.8||10.7

| 1995

| 18

| 287|| 90|| 197

|15.6||4.9||10.7

| 1996

| 19

| 287|| 88|| 199

|15.2||4.7||10.6

| 1997

| 19

| style="color: blue"|350|| 97||style="color: blue"| 253

|18.2||5.0||13.1

| 1998

| 20

| 278|| 87|| 191

|14.1||4.4||9.7

| 1999

| 20

| 315|| 94|| 221

|15.6||4.7||10.9

| 2000

| 21

| 325|| 91|| 234

|15.7||4.4||11.3

| 2001

| 21

| 314|| 101|| 213

|14.9||4.8||10.1

| 2002

| 22

| 253|| 97|| 156

|11.8||4.5||7.2

| 2003

| 22

| 269|| 104|| 165

|12.2||4.7||7.5

| 2004

| 23

| 316|| 120|| 196

|14.0||5.3||8.7

| 2005

| 25.422

| 285|| 106|| 179

|10.9||4.1||6.8

||1.3

| 2006

| 26.108

| 264|| 79|| 185

|9.8||style="color: blue"|3.0||6.8

||1.2

| 2007

| 27.007

| 283|| 104|| 179

|10.1||3.8||6.4

||1.3

| 2008

| 28.084

| 313|| 100|| 213

|10.9||3.54||7.36

||1.45

| 2009

| 28.020

| 323|| 109|| 214

|11.2 || 3.77||7.43

||1.5

| 2010

| 28.037

| 303|| 104|| 199

|10.1 ||3.52 ||6.58

||1.17

| 2011

| 28.103

|333 || 98|| 235

| 11.8|| 3.49||8.31

||1.29

| 2012

| 30.254

| 286||122|| 164

|9.5||4.0|| style="color: red" |5.4

||1.09

| 2013

| 31.516

| 277||113||style="color: red"| 114

|style="color: red"|8.8||3.6||3.6

||1.07

| 2014

|style="color: blue"| 33.054

| 282||111|| 171

|8.5||3.4||5.2

||1.07

| 2015

| 34.064

| 266||style="color: red"|136|| 130

|7.8||4.0||3.8

||0.98

| 2016

| 36.092

| 269|| 120|| 149

|7.5||3.3||4.1

||0.98

| 2017

| 32.800

| 245|| 155|| 90

|7.5||4.7||2.7

||0.86

| 2018

| 33.789

| 252|| 115|| 137

|7.5||3.4||4.1

| 2019

| 36.009

| 272|| 108|| 164

|7.6||3.0||4.6

| 2020

| 36.521

| 325|| 154|| 171

|8.9||4.2||4.7

| 2021

| 37.408

| 272|| 171|| 101

|7.3||4.6||2.7

In 2009, the infant mortality rate in the British Virgin Islands was 14.65/1000 births (16.61/1000 for females and 12.58/1000 for males). Life expectancy at birth was 77.26 years: 76.03 years for males and 78.55 years for females.

Ethnicity

Historical

{| class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

! %

|1678

|87.9

|12.1

|1717

|46.5

|53.5

|1720

|42.5

|57.4

|1756

|16.2

|83.8

Current

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|title=Ethnic groups of the British Virgin Islands (2010)

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|left1=Ethnic groups

|right1=per cent

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Religion

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|title=Religions of the British Virgin Islands

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|left1=Religions

|right1=per cent

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{{bar percent|

Protestant|Blue|58.78}}

{{bar percent|

Other Christian|Black|22.98}}

{{bar percent|

Catholic|Purple|2.81}}

{{bar percent|

Non-religious|Violet|6.85}}

{{bar percent|

Indigenous Religion|Grey|8.39}}

{{bar percent|

Other Religions|Silver|2.4}}

{{bar percent|

Muslims|Green|1.15}}

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