World population/British Virgin Islands
North America
Population of British Virgin Islands
39,960
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#218
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+0.44%
yearly change
+176
people this year
321
births a year
245
deaths a year
How the figure for British Virgin Islands is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of British Virgin Islands at 39,960 on 1 July 2026, and projects 40,136 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places British Virgin Islands at number 218 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 321 births and 245 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
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