🇰🇳St. Kitts and Nevis

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Population

46.9K

0.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.53

births/woman

Life Expectancy

72.3y

GDP / capita

$25.2K

Pop. Growth

0.17%

Net Migration

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in St. Kitts and Nevis by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇾Guyana829(25.3%)

+10%

🇻🇮Virgin Islands (U.S.)653(19.9%)

+10%

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male22.4KTotal 46.9K24.5KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

64.2

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the St. Kitts and Nevis diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in St. Kitts and Nevis who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇻🇮Virgin Islands (U.S.)7.1K(55.6%)

+0%

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands1.7K(13.6%)

+43%

🇵🇪Peru1.2K(9.1%)

22×

🇸🇽Sint Maarten (Dutch part)1.1K(9.0%)

+15%

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda515(4.0%)

+15%

🇨🇼Curacao294(2.3%)

+75%

🇨🇱Chile207(1.6%)

+331%

🇩🇴Dominican Republic153(1.2%)

+17%

🇧🇧Barbados110(0.9%)

+6%

🇯🇲Jamaica99(0.8%)

+1%

🇩🇲Dominica64(0.5%)

+19%

🇦🇺Australia50(0.4%)

+43%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024