🇱🇨St. Lucia

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Population

180.1K

0.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.39

births/woman

Life Expectancy

72.8y

GDP / capita

$14.7K

Pop. Growth

0.23%

Net Migration

-23

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. Lucia by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇾Guyana2K(29.1%)

−10%

🇺🇸United States824(11.7%)

−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

Male88.9KTotal 180.2K91.3KFemale

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

39.0

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

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago488(6.9%)

−11%

🇧🇧Barbados390(5.5%)

−11%

🇯🇲Jamaica361(5.1%)

−11%

🇩🇲Dominica241(3.4%)

−12%

🇨🇦Canada237(3.4%)

−12%

🇮🇳India207(2.9%)

−9%

🇬🇩Grenada155(2.2%)

−12%

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic126(1.8%)

−13%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the St. Lucia diaspora lives

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

🇨🇦Canada7.6K(41.7%)

+48%

🇻🇮Virgin Islands (U.S.)3.4K(18.9%)

+0%

🇧🇧Barbados2.2K(12.3%)

+7%

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago1.4K(7.8%)

+65%

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda732(4.0%)

+15%

🇻🇬British Virgin Islands660(3.6%)

+43%

🇸🇽Sint Maarten (Dutch part)536(3.0%)

+15%

🇯🇲Jamaica339(1.9%)

+1%

🇩🇲Dominica291(1.6%)

+21%

🇻🇨St. Vincent and the Grenadines245(1.4%)

+3%

🇬🇾Guyana222(1.2%)

+91%

🇬🇩Grenada168(0.9%)

+4%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024