Demographics of the United States Virgin Islands

350px|alt=|thumb|upright=1.4|United States Virgin Islands [[population pyramid in 2020]]

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

Population

According to the 2020 U.S. census, the population of the U.S. Virgin Islands was 87,146, a decrease from 106,405 in 2010. In 2020, the median age was 45.9 years, compared to 39.2 years in 2010.

Structure of the population

{| class="wikitable"

! width="80pt"|Age group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80pt"|Female

! width="80pt"|Total

! width="80pt"|%

| align="right" | Total

| align="right" | 50 854

| align="right" | 55 551

| align="right" | 106 405

| align="right" | 100

| align="right" | 0–4

| align="right" | 3 736

| align="right" | 3 764

| align="right" | 7 500

| align="right" | 7.05

| align="right" | 5–9

| align="right" | 3 694

| align="right" | 3 456

| align="right" | 7 150

| align="right" | 6.72

| align="right" | 10–14

| align="right" | 3 849

| align="right" | 3 635

| align="right" | 7 484

| align="right" | 7.03

| align="right" | 15–19

| align="right" | 3 765

| align="right" | 3 795

| align="right" | 7 560

| align="right" | 7.10

| align="right" | 20–24

| align="right" | 2 707

| align="right" | 3 187

| align="right" | 5 894

| align="right" | 5.54

| align="right" | 25–29

| align="right" | 2 695

| align="right" | 3 274

| align="right" | 5 969

| align="right" | 5.61

| align="right" | 30–34

| align="right" | 2 825

| align="right" | 3 312

| align="right" | 6 137

| align="right" | 5.77

| align="right" | 35–39

| align="right" | 3 133

| align="right" | 3 542

| align="right" | 6 675

| align="right" | 6.27

| align="right" | 40–44

| align="right" | 3 506

| align="right" | 3 944

| align="right" | 7 450

| align="right" | 7.00

| align="right" | 45–49

| align="right" | 3 680

| align="right" | 4 063

| align="right" | 7 743

| align="right" | 7.28

| align="right" | 50–54

| align="right" | 3 800

| align="right" | 4 100

| align="right" | 7 900

| align="right" | 7.42

| align="right" | 55–59

| align="right" | 3 341

| align="right" | 3 851

| align="right" | 7 192

| align="right" | 6.76

| align="right" | 60–64

| align="right" | 3 510

| align="right" | 3 857

| align="right" | 7 367

| align="right" | 6.92

| align="right" | 65–69

| align="right" | 2 883

| align="right" | 2 970

| align="right" | 5 853

| align="right" | 5.50

| align="right" | 70–74

| align="right" | 1 739

| align="right" | 1 978

| align="right" | 3 717

| align="right" | 3.49

| align="right" | 75–79

| align="right" | 1 043

| align="right" | 1 285

| align="right" | 2 328

| align="right" | 2.19

| align="right" | 80–84

| align="right" | 568

| align="right" | 764

| align="right" | 1 332

| align="right" | 1.25

| align="right" | 85+

| align="right" | 380

| align="right" | 774

| align="right" | 1 154

| align="right" | 1.08

! width="50"|Age group

! width="80pt"|Male

! width="80"|Female

! width="80"|Total

! width="50"|Percent

| align="right" | 0–14

| align="right" | 11 279

| align="right" | 10 855

| align="right" | 22 134

| align="right" | 20.80

| align="right" | 15–64

| align="right" | 32 962

| align="right" | 36 925

| align="right" | 69 887

| align="right" | 65.68

| align="right" | 65+

| align="right" | 6 613

| align="right" | 7 771

| align="right" | 14 384

| align="right" | 13.52

Vital statistics

{| 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"|Total fertility rate

| 1932

| 23

| 553|| 454|| 99

|24.0||19.7||4.3

| 1933

| 23

| 578|| 481|| 97

|25.1||20.9||style="color: red"|4.2

| 1934

| 23

| 657|| 419|| 238

|28.6||18.2||10.3

| 1935

| 24

| 656|| 492|| 164

|27.3||20.5||6.8

| 1936

| 24

| 664|| 471|| 193

|27.7||19.6||8.0

| 1937

| 24

| 725|| 498|| 227

|30.2||20.8||9.5

| 1938

| 24

| 703|| 488|| 215

|29.3||20.3||9.0

| 1939

| 25

| 787|| 460|| 327

|31.5||18.4||13.1

| 1940

| 25

| 756|| 553|| 203

|30.2||style="color:red"|22.1||8.1

| 1941

| 26

| 829|| 468|| 361

|31.9||18.0||13.9

| 1942

| 26

| 889|| 483|| 406

|34.2||18.6||15.6

| 1943

| 27

| 931|| 389|| 542

|34.5||14.4||20.1

| 1944

| 27

|1 059|| 402|| 657

|39.2||14.9||24.3

| 1945

| 27

| 984|| 401|| 583

|36.4||14.9||21.6

| 1946

| 27

| 917|| 408|| 509

|34.0||15.1||18.9

| 1947

| 27

| 876|| 394|| 482

|32.4||14.6||17.9

| 1948

| 27

| 826|| 340|| 486

|30.6||12.6||18.0

| 1949

| 27

| 886|| 362|| 524

|32.8||13.4||19.4

| 1950

| 27

| 894|| 374|| 520

|33.4||14.0||19.4

| 1951

| 27

| 953|| 375|| 578

|34.9||13.7||21.2

| 1952

| 28

| 862|| 346|| 516

|30.8||12.4||18.4

| 1953

| 29

| 871|| 279|| 592

|30.4||9.8||20.7

| 1954

| 29

| 879|| 301|| 578

|30.2||10.3||19.9

| 1955

| 29

| 913|| 311|| 602

|31.1||10.6||20.5

| 1956

| 29

| 977|| 354|| 623

|33.1||12.0||21.1

| 1957

| 30

|1 038|| 324|| 714

|35.0||10.9||24.1

| 1958

| 30

|1 129|| 340|| 789

|37.6||11.3||26.3

| 1959

| 31

|1 107|| 320|| 787

|35.8||10.3||25.4

| 1960

| 33

|1 180|| 332|| 848

|36.2||10.2||26.0

| 1961

| 35

|1 193|| 326|| 867

|33.9||9.3||24.6

| 1962

| 39

|1 375|| 321||1 054

|35.7||8.3||27.4

| 1963

| 42

|1 513|| 383||1 130

|35.8||9.1||26.7

| 1964

| 46

|1 762|| 343||1 419

|38.2||7.4||30.8

| 1965

| 50

|1 998|| 416||1 582

|40.3||8.4||31.9

| 1966

| 53

|1 956|| 388||1 568

|37.2||7.4||29.8

| 1967

| 55

|2 272|| 373||1 899

|41.1||6.7||34.4

| 1968

| 58

|2 350|| 474||1 876

|40.6||8.2||32.4

| 1969

| 61

|2 529|| 476||2 053

|41.7||7.8||33.8

| 1970

| 64

|style="color: blue"|2 920|| 469||style="color: blue"|2 451

|style="color: blue"|45.6||7.3||style="color: blue"|38.3

| 1971

| 68

|2 909|| 538||2 371

|42.7||7.9||34.8

| 1972

| 73

|2 881|| 539||2 342

|39.7||7.4||32.3

| 1973

| 77

|2 667|| 496||2 171

|34.5||6.4||28.1

| 1974

| 82

|2 584|| 485||2 099

|31.6||5.9||25.7

| 1975

| 86

|2 561|| 477||2 084

|29.9||5.6||24.3

| 1976

| 89

|2 530|| 512||2 018

|28.4||5.7||22.6

| 1977

| 92

|2 513|| 408||2 105

|27.3||style="color: blue"|4.4||22.9

| 1978

| 94

|2 524|| 504||2 020

|26.7||5.3||21.4

| 1979

| 96

|2 389|| 500||1 889

|24.8||5.2||19.6

| 1980

| 98

|2 504|| 500||2 004

|25.4||5.1||20.4

| 1981

| 100

|2 442|| 548||1 894

|24.4||5.5||18.9

| 1982

| 102

|2 509|| 522||1 987

|24.6||5.1||19.5

| 1983

| 103

|2 600|| 506||2 094

|25.2||4.9||20.3

| 1984

| 104

|2 452|| 507||1 945

|23.5||4.9||18.7

| 1985

| 105

|2 402|| 547||1 855

|22.9||5.2||17.7

| 1986

| 105

|2 288|| 508||1 780

|21.9||4.9||17.0

| 1987

| 104

|2 375|| 558||1 817

|22.8||5.3||17.4

| 1988

| 104

|2 315|| 549||1 766

|22.3||5.3||17.0

| 1989

| 103

|2 418|| 548||1 870

|23.4||5.3||18.1

| 1990

| 103

|2 401|| 511||1 890

|23.3||4.9||18.3

| 1991

| 104

|2 511|| 538||1 973

|24.2||5.2||19.0

| 1992

| 104

|2 613|| 539||2 074

|25.0||5.2||19.9

| 1993

| 105

|2 529|| 569||1 960

|24.0||5.4||18.6

| 1994

| 106

|2 468|| 595||1 873

|23.2||5.6||17.6

| 1995

| 107

|2 170|| 661||1 509

|20.3||6.2||14.1

| 1996

| 108

|2 001|| 558||1 443

|18.6||5.2||13.4

| 1997

| 108

|2 124|| 607||1 517

|19.7||5.6||14.0

| 1998

| 108

|1 913|| 615||1 298

|17.7||5.7||12.0

| 1999

| 108

|1 671|| 659||1 012

|15.4||6.1||9.3

| 2000

|style="color: blue"| 109

|1 564|| 641|| 923

|14.4||5.9||8.5

| 2001

| 109

|1 668|| 617||1 051

|15.4||5.7||9.7

| 2002

| 108

|1 634|| 617||1 017

|15.1||5.7||9.4

| 2003

| 108

|1 610|| 615|| 995

|14.9||5.7||9.2

| 2004

| 108

|1 672|| 628||1 044

|15.5||5.8||9.7

| 2005

| 108

|1 686|| 674||1 012

|15.6||6.3||9.4

| 2006

| 107

|1 687|| 624||1 063

|15.7||5.8||9.9

| 2007

| 107

|1 697|| 703|| 994

|15.8||6.6||9.3

| 2008

| 107

|1 784||style="color: red"| 749||1 035

|16.7||7.0||9.7

| 2009

| 107

|1 687|| 675||1 012

|15.8||6.3||9.5

| 2010

| 106

|1 600|| 715|| 885

|15.0||6.7||8.3

| 2011

| 106

|1 491|| ||

|14.0|| ||

| 2012

| 106

|1 415||723||692

|13.4||6.9||6.5

| 2015

| 1 325||673||652

||12.8||6.5||6.3

||2.23

| 2016

| 1 187||632||555

||11.0||5.9||5.1

||1.80

| 2020

| 876||701||175

|8.2||6.6||1.6

||1.394

| 2021

|903||747||156

|8.5||7.1||1.4

||1.458

| 2022

|868||||

|8.2||||

||1.427

| 2023

|823||||

|7.8||||

||1.368

The infant mortality rate as of 2010 is 7.4 deaths/1,000 live births: 8.14 deaths/1,000 live births for males and 6.63 deaths/1,000 live births for females. At birth, life expectancy is 79.61 years (76.57 for males, 82.83 for females or girls).

Race and ethnicity

{| class="wikitable"

!Race

!Percent

|Black or African American

|71.4%

|White

|13.3%

|Asian

|1.0%

|American Indian and Alaska Native

|0.4%

|Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

|0.1%

|Some other race

|6.3%

|Two or more races

|7.5%

{| class="wikitable"

!Hispanic or Latino origin

!Percent Of those born elsewhere: 90.7% were born in the Caribbean; 3.4% were born in Asia; 2.4% were born in Europe; 2.0% were born in Central America; and 1.4% were born elsewhere.

Protestant 59%
Baptist 42%
Episcopalian 17%
Roman Catholic Church 34%
Other 7%

Language

As of 2020, the following are the language statistics for the U.S. Virgin Islands (for the population 5 years and over in households):

English only: 69.8%
Spanish: 56.9%
French, Haitian, or Cajun: 29.3%
Other: 13.8%

Demographics of the United States Virgin Islands

Population

Structure of the population

Vital statistics

Race and ethnicity

Language

See also

References