Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in Saint Barthélemy
About 1 in 1,321,099 people born in 2023 started life in Saint Barthélemy. A boy can expect to live 82 years and a girl 87, up from 52 and 56 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 30 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 145 in every 1,000 births to 6.1.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 3.2 children on average in 1950. Now it is 0.8, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Gustavia, with 5,988 people.
Events in the data
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Born in Saint Barthélemy, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
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