St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, St. Vincent and the Grenadines' population density (people per sq. km of land area) fell 1.82 on 2023 (from 260.47 to 258.65).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −0.95 and a typical year strayed about 0.82 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.5 in 1962 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.95 in 2019. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1.74 a year. A straight line explains 100% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 253.6 for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.15, against 3.21 for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2024, St. Vincent and the Grenadines had the 52nd highest value of the 214 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the 2024 ranking

• Luxembourg — 48th of 214: 262.97
• Jamaica — 49th of 214: 262.16
• British Virgin Islands — 50th of 214: 261.4
• Nigeria — 52nd of 214: 255.48
• Liechtenstein — 53rd of 214: 252.81
• Uganda — 54th of 214: 249.43

What this measures

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Limitations: Current population estimates for developing countries that lack recent census data and pre- and post-census estimates for countries with census data are provided by the United Nations Population Division and other agencies. The cohort component method - a standard method for estimating and projecting population - requires fertility, mortality, and net migration data, often collected from sample surveys, which can be small or limited in coverage. Population estimates are from demographic modeling and so are susceptible to biases and errors from shortcomings in the model and in the data.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 64 values

Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 212.97 (2024)
• Argentina — 16.7 (2024)
• Aruba — 599.97 (2024)
• Bahamas, The — 40.09 (2024)
• Barbados — 655.38 (2024)
• Belize — 18.28 (2024)
• Bolivia — 11.41 (2024)
• Brazil — 25.36 (2024)
• British Virgin Islands — 261.4 (2024)
• Cayman Islands

More environment data for St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Rural population — 51,979 (2025)
• Rural population (% of total population) — 52.02% (2025)
• Urban population — 47,945 (2025)
• Urban population (% of total population) — 47.98% (2025)
• Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 10 (2024)
• Capture fisheries production (metric tons) — 971 (2024)
• Total fisheries production (metric tons) — 981 (2024)
• Rural population growth (annual %) — -0.95% (2025)
• Urban population growth (annual %)

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Questions people ask

What is St. Vincent and the Grenadines's population density (people per sq. km of land area)?

258.65 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1961?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EN.POP.DNST, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: FAO population estimates, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); World Bank population estimates, World Bank (WB), publisher: World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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