Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in British Virgin Islands
About 1 in 440,366 people born in 2023 started life in British Virgin Islands. A boy can expect to live 75 years and a girl 80, up from 52 and 55 in 1950. Most people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 24 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 163 in every 1,000 births to 13.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 5.0 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.0, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Road Town, with 8,449 people.
People on the move
About 16% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are United States Virgin Islands, South Africa, Sint Maarten (Dutch part).
Safety nets
59% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 0%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in British Virgin Islands, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences