Country or area · Caribbean · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Saint Lucia population

Saint Lucia population now

180,562

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 176,915–184,314.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 179,284

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 180,479; 95% range, 31 Dec: 176,915–184,314
Median age: 36.1
Aged 65+: 10.3%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2032

male female projection · one cell = 50 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

LCA · 1950–2100 · in brief

Saint Lucia in numbers

Saint Lucia had 179,284 people in mid-2023, the 191st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 1.9 times its 1950 population of 92,991.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2032 at 181 thousand, then falling to 108 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 13,313 to 648 thousand.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2033 and staying above them from then on. Deaths also outnumbered births in 2021.

The median age was 17.3 in 1950 and 34.7 in 2023; the projection has 52.0 in 2100. 9.3% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2025 at 131 thousand.

By size it is the 191st country in 2023; the projection puts it 193rd in 2050 and 197th in 2100. It is overtaken by Guam in 2037, Kiribati in 2046 and Micronesia in 2081.

Population, mid-2023: 179,284
Rank by population, 2023: 191 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.28% · +503 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 294
Land area, 2023: 610 km²
Births, 2023: 2,019
Deaths, 2023: 1,544
Net migration, 2023: 0
Children per woman, 2023: 1.38
Median age, 2023: 34.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 72.7 years
In a city, 2025: 0 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 92,991
Projected, mid-2050: 172,080
Projected, mid-2100: 108,207

LCA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Saint Lucia, 1950–2100

Saint Lucia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	92,463		4,306	1,684	6.42	48.3
1951	estimate	93,519		4,309	1,586	6.44	49.8
1952	estimate	94,416		4,313	1,439	6.46	52.4
1953	estimate	94,414		4,046	1,375	6.09	53.2
1954	estimate	94,238		4,111	1,310	6.25	54.5
1955	estimate	93,975		4,211	1,271	6.45	55.4
1956	estimate	93,632		4,273	1,248	6.60	55.9
1957	estimate	93,271		4,345	1,250	6.70	55.9
1958	estimate	92,895		4,390	1,220	6.76	56.6
1959	estimate	92,535		4,396	1,186	6.78	57.3
1960	estimate	92,168		4,359	1,158	6.77	57.9
1961	estimate	93,003		4,274	1,102	6.83	59.1
1962	estimate	93,978		4,184	1,061	6.82	59.9
1963	estimate	95,032		4,072	1,024	6.72	60.5
1964	estimate	96,007		4,057	982	6.76	61.3
1965	estimate	97,003		3,995	952	6.69	61.9
1966	estimate	97,982		3,949	921	6.61	62.5
1967	estimate	98,945		4,019	906	6.51	63.2
1968	estimate	100,064		4,045	890	6.39	63.8
1969	estimate	101,287		4,027	884	6.25	64.0
1970	estimate	102,472		3,969	876	6.10	64.3
1971	estimate	103,857		3,912	866	5.95	64.5
1972	estimate	105,270		3,888	860	5.81	64.6
1973	estimate	106,734		3,899	866	5.69	64.6
1974	estimate	108,262		3,940	835	5.57	65.4
1975	estimate	109,889		3,944	819	5.36	65.9
1976	estimate	111,561		3,978	813	5.16	66.2
1977	estimate	113,289		4,027	787	4.97	67.0
1978	estimate	114,980		4,127	787	4.83	67.4
1979	estimate	116,688		4,104	802	4.58	67.4
1980	estimate	118,368		4,076	801	4.41	67.8
1981	estimate	120,212		4,076	770	4.28	68.7
1982	estimate	122,120		4,129	768	4.17	69.0
1983	estimate	124,053		4,178	734	4.08	70.0
1984	estimate	126,036		4,249	722	4.02	70.5
1985	estimate	128,098		4,335	744	3.97	70.3
1986	estimate	130,219		4,253	757	3.80	70.2
1987	estimate	132,259		4,141	791	3.61	69.7
1988	estimate	134,196		4,024	795	3.44	69.7
1989	estimate	135,805		3,952	806	3.31	70.0
1990	estimate	137,220		3,896	835	3.24	70.0
1991	estimate	138,493		3,857	849	3.19	70.3
1992	estimate	140,547		3,820	840	3.11	70.7
1993	estimate	142,687		3,737	837	3.00	71.0
1994	estimate	144,764		3,829	853	3.03	71.1
1995	estimate	147,016		3,882	864	3.03	71.2
1996	estimate	149,400		3,536	887	2.71	71.0
1997	estimate	151,473		3,623	915	2.74	70.8
1998	estimate	153,665		3,226	931	2.40	70.7
1999	estimate	155,688		3,370	980	2.50	70.7
2000	estimate	157,716		2,987	1,020	2.21	70.8
2001	estimate	159,516		2,890	1,030	2.13	71.4
2002	estimate	160,957		2,801	1,027	2.03	71.7
2003	estimate	162,325		2,709	1,014	1.94	72.2
2004	estimate	163,626		2,632	1,018	1.86	72.5
2005	estimate	164,852		2,586	1,034	1.81	72.5
2006	estimate	166,047		2,550	1,039	1.76	72.8
2007	estimate	167,231		2,478	1,056	1.70	72.9
2008	estimate	168,285		2,456	1,088	1.70	73.0
2009	estimate	169,330		2,480	1,130	1.74	73.0
2010	estimate	170,407		2,357	1,180	1.67	72.8
2011	estimate	171,406		2,129	1,196	1.50	73.0
2012	estimate	172,196		2,148	1,233	1.50	72.9
2013	estimate	172,977		2,166	1,273	1.50	72.7
2014	estimate	173,760		2,158	1,306	1.49	72.7
2015	estimate	174,517		2,153	1,312	1.47	72.9
2016	estimate	175,292		2,144	1,377	1.46	72.5
2017	estimate	176,000		2,134	1,409	1.45	72.5
2018	estimate	176,684		2,121	1,426	1.44	72.7
2019	estimate	177,350		2,106	1,497	1.42	72.3
2020	estimate	177,973		2,088	1,525	1.41	72.3
2021	estimate	178,528		2,066	2,081	1.40	69.1
2022	estimate	178,516		2,041	1,512	1.39	72.7
2023	estimate	179,046		2,019	1,544	1.38	72.7
2024	estimate	179,523		2,015	1,566	1.39	72.8
2025	projection	179,964	178,890–181,044	1,985	1,588	1.38	73.0
2026	projection	180,334	177,925–182,641	1,959	1,611	1.37	73.2
2027	projection	180,641	176,915–184,314	1,931	1,635	1.37	73.3
2028	projection	180,894	175,811–186,317	1,907	1,660	1.36	73.4
2029	projection	181,113	174,267–188,129	1,883	1,683	1.36	73.6
2030	projection	181,291	172,784–190,194	1,857	1,709	1.37	73.8
2031	projection	181,428	170,711–192,169	1,831	1,736	1.37	73.9
2032	projection	181,494	169,095–194,392	1,805	1,763	1.37	74.0
2033	projection	181,490	166,951–196,756	1,774	1,792	1.37	74.2
2034	projection	181,427	164,754–199,684	1,742	1,820	1.38	74.3
2035	projection	181,274	162,471–202,119	1,709	1,849	1.38	74.5
2036	projection	181,081	159,809–204,619	1,677	1,877	1.38	74.7
2037	projection	180,816	157,313–207,236	1,643	1,908	1.38	74.8
2038	projection	180,449	154,631–209,424	1,611	1,939	1.38	75.0
2039	projection	180,006	151,977–211,946	1,582	1,970	1.38	75.1
2040	projection	179,543	148,436–214,394	1,556	2,000	1.39	75.3
2041	projection	179,043	145,432–216,582	1,533	2,031	1.39	75.4
2042	projection	178,476	142,000–219,096	1,511	2,061	1.40	75.6
2043	projection	177,893	138,897–222,137	1,493	2,091	1.40	75.7
2044	projection	177,280	135,622–225,361	1,473	2,121	1.40	75.8
2045	projection	176,587	131,971–228,537	1,457	2,148	1.41	76.0
2046	projection	175,884	128,519–232,376	1,441	2,174	1.41	76.2
2047	projection	175,140	125,452–236,574	1,426	2,199	1.41	76.3
2048	projection	174,314	122,452–240,875	1,410	2,222	1.41	76.5
2049	projection	173,435	118,554–244,291	1,395	2,246	1.42	76.6
2050	projection	172,546	115,019–247,739	1,382	2,268	1.42	76.8
2051	projection	171,615	112,635–251,882	1,370	2,284	1.42	76.9
2052	projection	170,679	109,007–255,952	1,359	2,302	1.42	77.1
2053	projection	169,691	106,800–261,474	1,349	2,316	1.43	77.2
2054	projection	168,671	104,267–267,022	1,337	2,330	1.43	77.4
2055	projection	167,637	99,844–272,103	1,325	2,343	1.43	77.5
2056	projection	166,581	96,513–277,227	1,312	2,357	1.43	77.7
2057	projection	165,526	93,611–281,884	1,302	2,367	1.44	77.8
2058	projection	164,431	89,692–285,790	1,286	2,376	1.44	78.0
2059	projection	163,316	85,672–291,422	1,271	2,385	1.44	78.1
2060	projection	162,161	82,123–297,630	1,257	2,393	1.44	78.3
2061	projection	160,941	79,766–300,702	1,240	2,402	1.44	78.4
2062	projection	159,741	76,618–305,370	1,224	2,410	1.45	78.5
2063	projection	158,521	74,627–308,777	1,208	2,419	1.45	78.7
2064	projection	157,277	72,406–316,163	1,192	2,425	1.45	78.8
2065	projection	155,975	69,170–322,435	1,175	2,432	1.45	79.0
2066	projection	154,667	66,934–331,266	1,158	2,438	1.45	79.1
2067	projection	153,301	64,122–335,130	1,142	2,445	1.45	79.3
2068	projection	151,927	61,624–341,154	1,127	2,452	1.46	79.4
2069	projection	150,540	59,684–345,221	1,109	2,456	1.46	79.5
2070	projection	149,136	57,754–349,594	1,094	2,460	1.46	79.7
2071	projection	147,725	56,331–357,561	1,079	2,466	1.46	79.8
2072	projection	146,297	53,906–363,282	1,064	2,468	1.46	80.0
2073	projection	144,851	51,941–371,144	1,050	2,469	1.46	80.1
2074	projection	143,372	49,638–378,022	1,036	2,469	1.46	80.3
2075	projection	141,870	47,055–386,573	1,023	2,467	1.47	80.4
2076	projection	140,394	44,654–397,015	1,012	2,464	1.47	80.5
2077	projection	138,891	43,071–405,298	1,001	2,461	1.47	80.7
2078	projection	137,395	40,169–415,522	990	2,453	1.47	80.8
2079	projection	135,919	38,192–430,378	981	2,441	1.47	80.9
2080	projection	134,425	36,242–433,058	972	2,427	1.48	81.1
2081	projection	132,939	34,252–445,822	964	2,410	1.48	81.2
2082	projection	131,464	32,445–457,360	955	2,392	1.48	81.4
2083	projection	130,020	31,287–469,107	948	2,372	1.48	81.5
2084	projection	128,593	29,874–483,297	941	2,349	1.48	81.6
2085	projection	127,162	28,211–490,556	932	2,323	1.48	81.8
2086	projection	125,771	27,471–503,487	925	2,295	1.49	81.9
2087	projection	124,391	26,052–520,825	916	2,265	1.49	82.0
2088	projection	123,027	24,346–530,507	907	2,233	1.49	82.2
2089	projection	121,670	23,215–540,674	899	2,199	1.49	82.3
2090	projection	120,364	22,115–547,192	891	2,164	1.49	82.4
2091	projection	119,095	20,922–555,221	883	2,127	1.49	82.6
2092	projection	117,822	20,152–568,592	875	2,092	1.50	82.7
2093	projection	116,593	18,913–576,465	865	2,057	1.50	82.9
2094	projection	115,402	17,634–586,469	856	2,022	1.50	83.0
2095	projection	114,235	16,209–590,331	846	1,988	1.50	83.1
2096	projection	113,081	15,205–602,964	837	1,954	1.50	83.3
2097	projection	111,964	14,372–611,820	829	1,924	1.50	83.4
2098	projection	110,874	13,947–622,518	818	1,895	1.50	83.5
2099	projection	109,790	14,115–636,304	807	1,865	1.50	83.6
2100	projection	108,726	13,313–648,156	798	1,837	1.50	83.8

Show the numbers: Saint Lucia, mid-2026, by single year of age

Saint Lucia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	988	960
1	999	972
2	1,006	979
3	1,011	984
4	1,022	995
5	1,034	1,006
6	1,043	1,015
7	1,050	1,023
8	1,057	1,030
9	1,062	1,035
10	1,067	1,039
11	1,069	1,042
12	1,072	1,044
13	1,068	1,042
14	1,058	1,031
15	1,108	1,080
16	1,228	1,179
17	1,282	1,203
18	1,265	1,178
19	1,248	1,182
20	1,248	1,211
21	1,280	1,243
22	1,321	1,258
23	1,357	1,280
24	1,403	1,341
25	1,445	1,426
26	1,468	1,477
27	1,490	1,472
28	1,533	1,484
29	1,588	1,547
30	1,640	1,609
31	1,675	1,628
32	1,679	1,604
33	1,663	1,578
34	1,630	1,559
35	1,579	1,531
36	1,525	1,502
37	1,475	1,476
38	1,440	1,456
39	1,418	1,444
40	1,406	1,446
41	1,392	1,442
42	1,376	1,420
43	1,361	1,390
44	1,335	1,352
45	1,300	1,308
46	1,271	1,270
47	1,253	1,245
48	1,239	1,236
49	1,223	1,235
50	1,204	1,228
51	1,185	1,230
52	1,164	1,232
53	1,150	1,232
54	1,141	1,224
55	1,126	1,212
56	1,116	1,205
57	1,106	1,194
58	1,096	1,176
59	1,084	1,156
60	1,057	1,138
61	1,013	1,110
62	963	1,066
63	916	1,020
64	864	971
65	802	919
66	742	865
67	690	813
68	640	761
69	586	705
70	531	645
71	480	593
72	433	552
73	388	513
74	348	475
75	311	438
76	282	409
77	260	382
78	238	353
79	214	325
80	188	296
81	164	266
82	140	233
83	118	203
84	98	174
85	80	148
86	66	124
87	51	102
88	38	81
89	28	66
90	22	54
91	18	44
92	14	36
93	10	28
94	7	21
95	5	15
96	3	10
97	2	6
98	1	4
99	0	2
100+	0	2

LCA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Saint Lucia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

LCA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Saint Lucia

On the UN's projection, Saint Lucia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2025: 131,132 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 130,576.

100 aged 15–64

25 children

13 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 42 years: 2008–2049.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

LCA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Saint Lucia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Saint Lucia loses 4 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 7 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 1 person a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 0 (2019) and the most it lost was 3,576 (1959).

In 2024, 8,079 people living in Saint Lucia had been born in another country, 5 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

LCA · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Saint Lucia

Of every 100 babies born in Saint Lucia in 2023, 9 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 20 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 17 under 20 and 13 aged 35 or older.

1950
17 · 70 · 13

2023
9 · 71 · 20

2050 · projected
5 · 68 · 27

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 2,019
Average age when women have a baby: 28.8 years; 27.9 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 28; 183 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Saint Lucia by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	11	12	12	4	2	0
15–19	706	1,058	497	170	66	12
20–24	1,250	1,247	817	436	234	78
25–29	1,107	827	715	539	354	218
30–34	658	434	558	460	352	283
35–39	435	229	301	327	295	164
40–44	119	116	83	80	76	40
45–49	20	20	4	3	3	3
50–54	0	1	0	0	0	0
All babies	4,306	3,944	2,987	2,019	1,382	798

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

LCA · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Saint Lucia

Of the 71.1 years a baby born in Saint Lucia in 2021 could expect, about 61.8 would be lived in full health (95% range 60.8–62.7). That leaves 9.3 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

63.6 in full health, 10.9 not: 74.5 years

Men

60.1 in full health, 7.9 not: 68.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 63.6 healthy years of 74.5. Men: 60.1 of 68.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 65.7.

LCA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Saint Lucia

At the end of 2025, Saint Lucia was hosting 5 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad5
Saint Lucia nationals abroad441

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 10 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Saint Lucia living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 270 people from Saint Lucia asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Saint Lucia whose claims were decided that year, 15 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

LCA · of every 100 people

How people live in Saint Lucia

Of every 100 people in Saint Lucia in 2025, 76 lived in a town or suburb and 24 in the countryside.

towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 31.8 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

LCA · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Saint Lucia went in school

Of every 100 adults in Saint Lucia in 2020, 3 never went to school and 51 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 never went to school 2 some primary 36 finished primary 8 finished lower secondary 31 finished upper secondary 20 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2025; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2045.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

LCA · cities · 2025

Cities in Saint Lucia

No place in Saint Lucia is big and dense enough to count as a city under the UN's rule — at least 50,000 people, living 1,500 or more to the square kilometre.

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Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Saint Lucia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.