Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in Saint Kitts and Nevis
About 1 in 264,220 people born in 2023 started life in Saint Kitts and Nevis. A boy can expect to live 69 years and a girl 76, up from 52 and 58 in 1950. Fewer than half of people live in cities, and nearly everyone has basic drinking water.
Life and health
Life lasts about 18 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 126 in every 1,000 births to 15.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 6.4 children on average in 1950. Now it is 1.5, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Money and work
Daily life
The largest city is Basseterre, with 12,920 people.
People on the move
About 30% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are United States Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Peru.
Safety nets
85% 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis, 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