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US Virgin Islands population

UN name: United States Virgin Islands

US Virgin Islands population now

83,219

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: 77,926–87,792.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 85,701

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 83,392; 95% range, 31 Dec: 77,926–87,792
Median age: 45.9
Aged 65+: 23.6%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024

male female projection · one cell = 20 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

VIR · 1950–2100 · in brief

US Virgin Islands in numbers

85,701 people lived in The US Virgin Islands in mid-2023: less than 0.01% of the world's people, and the 202nd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 3.2 times its 1950 population of 27,081.

Its population peaked in 1999 at 109 thousand and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 61,961 in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 10,518 to 556 thousand.

Since 2017, more people have died here each year than have been born, and the UN's projection has that holding every year to 2100.

The median age was 20.8 in 1950 and 45.7 in 2023; the projection has 48.1 in 2100. 22.2% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 29.7% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 2003 at 71,346; in 2023 it was 52,485.

By size it is the 202nd country in 2023; the projection puts it 205th in 2050 and 204th in 2100. It is overtaken by Andorra in 2026, Isle of Man in 2026 and the Cayman Islands in 2030.

Population, mid-2023: 85,701
Rank by population, 2023: 202 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.93% · −806 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 245
Land area, 2023: 350 km²
Births, 2023: 959
Deaths, 2023: 1,321
Net migration, 2023: −444
Children per woman, 2023: 2.09
Median age, 2023: 45.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 75.5 years
In a city, 2025: 0 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 27,081
Projected, mid-2050: 71,226
Projected, mid-2100: 61,961

VIR · 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. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: US Virgin Islands, 1950–2100

US Virgin Islands: 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	26,658		868	351	4.96	59.9
1951	estimate	27,504		931	390	5.14	57.1
1952	estimate	27,985		878	363	4.75	58.9
1953	estimate	28,405		919	331	4.88	61.5
1954	estimate	28,894		938	307	4.86	63.8
1955	estimate	29,422		975	328	4.91	62.9
1956	estimate	29,893		1,018	369	5.00	61.0
1957	estimate	30,371		1,055	361	5.07	61.8
1958	estimate	30,852		1,141	327	5.41	64.6
1959	estimate	31,404		1,114	377	5.22	61.8
1960	estimate	31,976		1,112	371	5.15	62.6
1961	estimate	34,069		1,180	325	4.80	63.2
1962	estimate	36,797		1,472	359	5.07	62.8
1963	estimate	39,833		1,650	408	4.96	61.5
1964	estimate	43,041		2,056	386	5.47	64.2
1965	estimate	46,637		2,354	401	5.64	64.8
1966	estimate	50,133		2,256	441	4.99	63.7
1967	estimate	53,398		2,507	450	5.20	64.5
1968	estimate	56,421		2,520	452	4.95	65.2
1969	estimate	59,237		2,557	456	4.81	65.8
1970	estimate	61,837		2,895	469	5.25	66.4
1971	estimate	65,876		2,919	470	5.07	67.0
1972	estimate	69,944		2,864	534	4.78	65.5
1973	estimate	73,883		2,639	506	4.23	67.0
1974	estimate	77,555		2,508	515	3.87	67.3
1975	estimate	81,046		2,419	526	3.60	67.6
1976	estimate	84,176		2,363	539	3.39	67.8
1977	estimate	87,229		2,346	554	3.26	68.1
1978	estimate	90,203		2,455	574	3.30	68.3
1979	estimate	93,027		2,331	592	3.04	68.5
1980	estimate	95,838		2,457	617	3.10	68.7
1981	estimate	97,297		2,439	629	3.00	68.9
1982	estimate	98,219		2,549	637	3.08	69.1
1983	estimate	99,064		2,609	644	3.10	69.3
1984	estimate	99,828		2,461	648	2.90	69.5
1985	estimate	100,503		2,409	656	2.83	69.7
1986	estimate	101,094		2,321	658	2.74	70.0
1987	estimate	101,565		2,393	664	2.84	70.2
1988	estimate	101,889		2,358	670	2.84	70.4
1989	estimate	102,005		2,472	682	3.02	70.5
1990	estimate	101,851		2,493	691	3.11	70.7
1991	estimate	102,764		2,728	715	3.38	70.8
1992	estimate	103,910		2,963	740	3.63	71.0
1993	estimate	104,927		2,984	766	3.64	71.1
1994	estimate	105,829		3,011	791	3.68	71.2
1995	estimate	106,634		2,619	823	3.24	71.2
1996	estimate	107,308		2,344	836	2.94	71.6
1997	estimate	107,880		2,360	914	3.02	70.9
1998	estimate	108,294		2,049	933	2.68	71.3
1999	estimate	108,550		1,832	979	2.45	71.1
2000	estimate	108,606		1,712	978	2.34	71.8
2001	estimate	108,551		1,784	988	2.47	72.2
2002	estimate	108,500		1,726	1,033	2.42	72.0
2003	estimate	108,335		1,649	1,079	2.33	72.0
2004	estimate	108,005		1,699	1,126	2.43	71.8
2005	estimate	107,664		1,673	1,130	2.42	72.2
2006	estimate	107,549		1,783	1,136	2.57	72.5
2007	estimate	107,351		1,799	1,156	2.60	72.6
2008	estimate	107,107		1,850	1,186	2.69	72.7
2009	estimate	106,813		1,756	1,204	2.58	72.9
2010	estimate	106,705		1,675	1,209	2.48	73.2
2011	estimate	105,917		1,545	1,243	2.34	73.4
2012	estimate	104,864		1,459	1,240	2.25	73.7
2013	estimate	103,732		1,414	1,240	2.23	74.0
2014	estimate	102,583		1,378	1,242	2.22	74.2
2015	estimate	101,416		1,345	1,256	2.22	74.3
2016	estimate	99,079		1,286	1,269	2.21	74.4
2017	estimate	96,495		1,224	1,288	2.19	74.4
2018	estimate	93,740		1,158	1,299	2.18	74.7
2019	estimate	90,863		1,086	1,312	2.16	74.9
2020	estimate	87,882		1,013	1,370	2.14	74.7
2021	estimate	87,531		1,001	1,398	2.12	74.6
2022	estimate	86,915		979	1,357	2.10	75.0
2023	estimate	86,099		959	1,321	2.09	75.5
2024	estimate	85,303		941	1,310	2.08	75.7
2025	projection	84,507	83,079–85,879	924	1,300	2.07	75.9
2026	projection	83,770	80,649–86,614	909	1,291	2.05	76.2
2027	projection	83,031	77,926–87,792	895	1,283	2.03	76.4
2028	projection	82,357	75,178–89,004	886	1,276	2.02	76.6
2029	projection	81,722	72,923–90,708	877	1,269	2.00	76.8
2030	projection	81,140	70,177–92,408	872	1,263	1.99	77.0
2031	projection	80,564	67,680–94,602	865	1,257	1.98	77.2
2032	projection	79,985	64,846–96,731	858	1,251	1.97	77.4
2033	projection	79,452	62,303–98,848	851	1,244	1.96	77.7
2034	projection	78,930	59,768–101,406	845	1,237	1.95	77.8
2035	projection	78,390	57,037–103,298	836	1,231	1.94	78.0
2036	projection	77,845	54,525–105,283	827	1,224	1.93	78.3
2037	projection	77,332	52,265–108,442	818	1,217	1.92	78.4
2038	projection	76,806	49,502–111,210	809	1,211	1.91	78.6
2039	projection	76,318	47,367–114,311	802	1,203	1.90	78.8
2040	projection	75,819	45,303–115,635	796	1,194	1.89	79.0
2041	projection	75,318	43,648–118,977	790	1,186	1.89	79.2
2042	projection	74,864	41,249–122,431	785	1,177	1.88	79.4
2043	projection	74,390	38,897–125,408	779	1,169	1.88	79.6
2044	projection	73,953	36,795–128,055	775	1,160	1.87	79.8
2045	projection	73,486	34,950–132,214	770	1,150	1.86	79.9
2046	projection	73,020	33,018–135,541	767	1,140	1.86	80.1
2047	projection	72,596	31,652–140,075	764	1,130	1.86	80.3
2048	projection	72,170	30,066–144,346	762	1,120	1.85	80.4
2049	projection	71,776	28,861–147,333	760	1,108	1.85	80.6
2050	projection	71,407	27,744–151,282	759	1,096	1.84	80.8
2051	projection	71,044	26,373–156,275	757	1,083	1.84	80.9
2052	projection	70,661	25,365–162,207	753	1,069	1.84	81.1
2053	projection	70,310	24,559–167,611	750	1,055	1.83	81.3
2054	projection	69,959	23,827–173,024	745	1,039	1.83	81.4
2055	projection	69,602	22,419–178,054	740	1,025	1.82	81.6
2056	projection	69,286	21,676–182,403	734	1,009	1.82	81.7
2057	projection	68,959	20,797–191,955	727	994	1.82	81.9
2058	projection	68,647	19,576–197,183	721	978	1.81	82.0
2059	projection	68,352	18,496–196,022	716	962	1.81	82.2
2060	projection	68,066	17,471–199,088	711	947	1.81	82.3
2061	projection	67,827	17,052–200,483	706	932	1.80	82.5
2062	projection	67,601	16,258–203,250	701	917	1.80	82.6
2063	projection	67,380	15,535–208,505	697	903	1.80	82.8
2064	projection	67,173	15,204–219,574	693	890	1.80	82.9
2065	projection	66,964	14,933–228,495	689	876	1.79	83.0
2066	projection	66,774	14,546–241,028	684	864	1.79	83.2
2067	projection	66,592	13,982–247,990	679	852	1.79	83.3
2068	projection	66,421	13,531–255,679	675	841	1.79	83.4
2069	projection	66,272	12,821–267,694	671	831	1.78	83.5
2070	projection	66,120	12,294–280,435	667	821	1.78	83.7
2071	projection	65,989	11,674–288,164	663	812	1.78	83.8
2072	projection	65,842	11,275–296,846	660	803	1.77	84.0
2073	projection	65,704	10,911–307,518	657	795	1.77	84.1
2074	projection	65,562	10,917–314,900	654	788	1.77	84.2
2075	projection	65,424	10,974–323,815	650	781	1.77	84.3
2076	projection	65,296	10,643–333,119	647	774	1.77	84.5
2077	projection	65,182	11,065–346,622	644	769	1.76	84.6
2078	projection	65,065	11,087–355,269	641	764	1.76	84.7
2079	projection	64,954	10,376–371,176	639	758	1.77	84.8
2080	projection	64,832	10,220–376,432	636	753	1.77	85.0
2081	projection	64,732	9,920–376,304	633	749	1.76	85.1
2082	projection	64,615	9,534–387,531	630	745	1.76	85.2
2083	projection	64,502	9,083–399,543	627	742	1.76	85.3
2084	projection	64,387	9,232–409,438	624	740	1.76	85.4
2085	projection	64,274	9,428–422,087	621	738	1.76	85.6
2086	projection	64,166	9,463–428,686	617	737	1.76	85.7
2087	projection	64,044	9,404–436,423	613	736	1.76	85.8
2088	projection	63,929	9,346–444,835	609	736	1.76	85.9
2089	projection	63,799	9,598–454,785	604	736	1.75	86.0
2090	projection	63,669	9,720–464,652	600	737	1.75	86.2
2091	projection	63,536	9,526–473,440	596	738	1.75	86.3
2092	projection	63,390	9,584–479,197	591	739	1.75	86.4
2093	projection	63,244	9,636–492,540	588	741	1.75	86.5
2094	projection	63,090	9,919–519,123	584	743	1.75	86.6
2095	projection	62,937	9,818–529,153	580	745	1.74	86.7
2096	projection	62,768	10,259–530,988	576	747	1.74	86.8
2097	projection	62,591	10,442–533,883	572	748	1.74	87.0
2098	projection	62,421	10,304–536,072	569	749	1.74	87.1
2099	projection	62,244	10,266–543,299	565	751	1.74	87.2
2100	projection	62,059	10,518–556,467	562	751	1.74	87.3

Show the numbers: US Virgin Islands, mid-2026, by single year of age

US Virgin Islands: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	460	443
1	464	446
2	469	450
3	476	458
4	486	466
5	494	475
6	479	452
7	460	422
8	464	418
9	468	416
10	474	416
11	478	419
12	480	424
13	485	432
14	491	446
15	499	464
16	507	484
17	506	496
18	504	502
19	502	502
20	498	496
21	492	486
22	485	473
23	470	456
24	452	434
25	432	418
26	407	401
27	388	386
28	374	382
29	370	387
30	378	400
31	389	422
32	400	445
33	412	460
34	420	467
35	422	467
36	419	466
37	418	464
38	422	466
39	428	472
40	438	480
41	453	494
42	466	503
43	474	506
44	478	512
45	479	514
46	478	514
47	478	514
48	479	516
49	482	520
50	488	525
51	498	536
52	510	549
53	526	565
54	542	583
55	560	601
56	577	620
57	592	637
58	606	654
59	610	674
60	609	688
61	608	696
62	605	706
63	597	708
64	587	704
65	581	692
66	573	676
67	561	661
68	544	648
69	517	631
70	486	612
71	453	598
72	420	582
73	396	566
74	375	552
75	358	530
76	347	510
77	337	491
78	318	468
79	296	442
80	270	412
81	240	375
82	208	338
83	176	301
84	147	263
85	119	228
86	94	194
87	71	162
88	54	134
89	40	110
90	30	91
91	22	74
92	16	58
93	12	46
94	8	36
95	6	26
96	3	20
97	2	14
98	1	10
99	1	7
100+	0	12

VIR · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

US Virgin Islands, 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.

VIR · ages 15–64

Who does the work in US Virgin Islands

The US Virgin Islands had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 2003: 71,347 people aged 15–64, against 52,481 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

27 children

36 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.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

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

VIR · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in US Virgin Islands, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the US Virgin Islands loses 344 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 63 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 10 people 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 1,967 (1963) and the most it lost was 2,743 (2018).

In 2024, 56,779 people living in the US Virgin Islands had been born in another country, 67 of every 100 people there, against 51 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

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

Who has the babies in US Virgin Islands

Of every 100 babies born in the US Virgin Islands in 2023, 8 had a mother under 20, 79 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 13 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 20 under 20 and 13 aged 35 or older.

1950
20 · 67 · 13

2023
8 · 79 · 13

2050 · projected
4 · 84 · 12

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: 959
Average age when women have a baby: 27.7 years; 27.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 32; 146 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the US Virgin Islands by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	4	12	5	1	0	0
15–19	167	438	251	81	32	11
20–24	243	709	472	269	188	84
25–29	213	648	447	269	260	179
30–34	130	403	320	215	185	185
35–39	82	166	173	94	62	73
40–44	27	40	42	28	29	27
45–49	2	3	2	2	2	2
50–54	0	0	0	0	1	1
All babies	868	2,419	1,712	959	759	562

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

VIR · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in US Virgin Islands

UNHCR publishes no refugees, asylum-seekers or displaced people in or from the US Virgin Islands 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.

How the world's displacement is counted

VIR · of every 100 people

How people live in US Virgin Islands

Of every 100 people in the US Virgin Islands in 2025, 74 lived in a town or suburb and 26 in the countryside.

towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (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

VIR · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in US Virgin Islands went in school

Of every 100 adults in the US Virgin Islands in 2020, 5 never went to school and 41 finished upper secondary or went further.

5 never went to school 3 some primary 43 finished primary 8 finished lower secondary 24 finished upper secondary 17 studied after school

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 2075.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

VIR · cities · 2025

Cities in US Virgin Islands

No place in the US Virgin Islands 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.

All the world's cities

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 the US Virgin Islands 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.