Saint Vincent and the Grenadines population

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2009: 72,515 people aged 15–64, against 67,674 in 2023.

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 22 years: 2015–2036.

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

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines loses 760 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 142 a year more leaving than arriving.

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.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 0 (1950), and a loss of 2,292 (1969).

In 2024, 4,820 people living in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had been born in another country, 5 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2023, 13 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 17 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 17 under 20 and 13 aged 35 or older.

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

1,232

Average age when women have a baby

28.2 years

27.3 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

42

195 in 1950

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the end of 2025.

Read that as a gap in the record, not as a finding. The count reaches as far as one agency's work reaches, and no further.

In 2025, 136 people from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines whose claims were decided that year, 22 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2025, 64 lived in a town or suburb and 36 in the countryside.

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

Of every 100 adults in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 2020, 1 never went to school and 36 finished upper secondary or went further.

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2055.

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

No place in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 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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