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🇻🇬 British Virgin Islands
High income. Capital Road Town. Mid-pack GDP/cap (HIC · PEAK) across 21 World Bank / WHO / ILO measures.
- 39.5K
- Population
- N/A
- GDP
- -
- GDP / capita
- 77.4 years
- Life expectancy
Mid-pack GDP/cap · PEAK
British Virgin Islands ranks 81st for life expectancy - a high income economy in Latin America & Caribbean.
- #81
- Life-expectancy rank
- #209
- Population rank
British Virgin Islands sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (# - of 217) as a HIC economy with PEAK longevity.
British Virgin Islands on the global income map
British Virgin Islands (VGB) mid GDP/cap pack - GDP per capita × life expectancy vs largest peers; gold rings = OECD.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
British Virgin Islands has a population of 39.5K, making it the 209th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Latin America & Caribbean.
Life expectancy at birth is 77.4 years (ranked 81st globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Road Town.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 4 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series British Virgin Islands does report.
All indicators for British Virgin Islands
21 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
| Topic | Indicator | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demographics | Population | 39.5K | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Ages 0-14 | 14.5% | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Ages 65+ | 9.6% | 2024 |
| Demographics | Population Density | 259.9/km² | 2023 |
| Demographics | Urban Population | 56.5% | 2024 |
| Economy | Foreign Direct Investment | $53.6 billion | 2024 |
| Health | Infant Mortality Rate | 11.4 per 1,000 | 2024 |
| Health | Life Expectancy at Birth | 77.4 years | 2024 |
| Health | Under-5 Mortality Rate | 12.4 per 1,000 | 2024 |
| Education | Education Expenditure (% of GDP) | 3.2% | 2023 |
| Education | School Enrollment (Primary) | 72.8 | 2024 |
| Education | School Enrollment (Secondary) | 75.6 | 2024 |
| Education | School Enrollment (Tertiary) | 29.6 | 2024 |
| Environment | CO2 Emissions Per Capita | 2.3 | 2024 |
| Environment | Forest Area | 24.1 | 2023 |
| Environment | Renewable Energy Consumption | 1.3% | 2022 |
| Infrastructure | Access to Electricity | 100.0% | 2023 |
| Infrastructure | Internet Users | 77.7% | 2017 |
| Infrastructure | Mobile Subscriptions | 93.1 | 2024 |
| Social | Intentional Homicides | 8.2 | 2006 |
| Social | Net Migration | 212 | 2024 |
🫀 Disease Burden
British Virgin Islands's WHO GHO strip is NCD-led; cause cards below keep only the highest-rate cells so the roster is not a copy of every other profile.
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: latest available. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
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What the data says about British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands sits in the high-income bracket but outside the OECD's harmonized reporting network, so its statistics come straight from the World Bank, WHO, and ILO source series rather than a jointly reconciled OECD dataset - still official, but with less cross-checking between agencies than an OECD member gets. Because output and income figures are converted at market exchange rates into current dollars, they can swing with currency movements independent of any real change in living standards, and for a small economy like this one that swing shows up more visibly in the headline numbers than it would for a larger country. The fuller picture comes from comparing British Virgin Islands against income-tier peers of a similar size.
British Virgin Islands sits in the middle third of GDP/cap (# - of 217) as a HIC economy with PEAK longevity.
British Virgin Islands holds 39.5K people and N/A GDP (mid-ranked) at N/A per person - mid GDP/cap band, HIC, LE 77.4 years (81st, PEAK). 21 WDI/WHO/ILO cells fill the topic blocks.
Use the topic tables and GDP/cap leaderboard to track vintages; "N/A" means the upstream agency has not published that cell for British Virgin Islands - we do not invent it.
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Figures above are sourced from World Bank, WHO, and ILO (OECD where applicable) as cited below; always verify against the primary source before citing a specific number.
Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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