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{{Use British English|date=January 2014}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
This is a [[demographics|demography]] of the [[Population (human biology)|population]] of the [[British Virgin Islands]] including [[population density]], [[Ethnic group|ethnicity]], education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and various other aspects.

{{Historical populations
|type =
|footnote = Source:<ref name="2001 census">{{Cite web |url=http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/BVI.pdf |title=National Population Census Report 2001 - The British Virgin Islands |access-date=2012-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512205629/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/BVI.pdf |archive-date=2016-05-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|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
}}

==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 {{UN_Population|Year}} is {{UN_Population|British Virgin Islands}} ({{UN_Population|source}}).

===Structure of the population===

{{Hidden begin
|title= Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 12.VII.2010): <ref>{{Cite web |title=UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/#statistics |access-date=2023-05-10 |website=unstats.un.org}}</ref>
|titlestyle = background:#EEBC35;
}}
{| 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
|-
|}
{{Hidden end}}

==Vital statistics==
[[File:British Virgin Islands 1950-2021 Forecast 2022-2032 UN World Population Prospects 2022.svg|thumb|300px|Population, [[fertility rate]] and [[net reproduction rate]], United Nations estimates]]

{{sticky-header}}{{sort under}}{{table alignment}}
{| 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
||
|}
<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=unstats.un.org|title=UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/VG.pdf |title=Demographic Profile: British Virgin Islands |access-date=2016-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328034058/http://caricomstats.org/Files/Databases/Demography/VG.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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
! %
W
! %
B
|-
|1678<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Wells |first=Robert V. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x154h |title=Population of the British Colonies in America Before 1776: A Survey of Census Data |date=1975 |publisher=Princeton University Press|jstor=j.ctt13x154h }}</ref>
|87.9
|12.1
|-
|1717<ref name=":0" />
|46.5
|53.5
|-
|1720<ref name=":0" />
|42.5
|57.4
|-
|1756<ref name=":0" />
|16.2
|83.8
|}

=== Current ===
{{bar box
|title=Ethnic groups of the British Virgin Islands (2010)<ref name="CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA">{{Cite CIA World Factbook|country=British Virgin Islands}}</ref>
|titlebar=#ddd
|left1=Ethnic groups
|right1=per cent
|float=none
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Afro-Caribbean|Black]]|Blue|76.3}}
{{bar percent|[[Hispanic]] |Pink|5.5}}
{{bar percent|[[White people|White]] |RED|5.4}}
{{bar percent|Mixed|Yellow|5.3}}
{{bar percent|[[Indo-Caribbean|East Indian]] |Green|2.1}}
{{bar percent|Other |Orange| 4.6}}
{{bar percent|Unspecified |Purple| 0.8}}
}}

==Religion==
{{bar box
|title=Religions of the British Virgin Islands<ref name="CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA"/><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.thearda.com/world-religion/national-profiles?u=33c#RELADH | title=National Profiles | World Religion }}</ref>
|titlebar=#ddd
|left1=Religions
|right1=per cent
|float=none
|bars=
{{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|[[Hinduism|Hindu]]|Orange|1.19}}
{{bar percent|
[[Islam|Muslims]]|Green|1.15}}
}}

==References==
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