St. Kitts & Nevis

North AmericaCapital city: BasseterreCapital metro: BasseterrePrime Minister: Terrance Drew
2026 population
51K
Rank #219 globally
Area
261 km² (101 sq mi)
Metros tracked
1
74% of population in metros
Composite score
3.6
Rank #151 globally

population: 2022 census (2022) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 1 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography1 metro

St. Kitts & Nevis metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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1 polygons

Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 1 tracked metro
1 metros
#627Basseterre★ Capital▲ Largest
Saint Kitts · 38K · Emerging Metro
3.6
🗂️ Islands

2 entries listed under St. Kitts & Nevis. Select any to see its metros and footprint.

2 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
English
Government
Federal monarchy
Legislature
National Assembly
Demonym
Nevisian
Time zone
UTC−04:00
Driving side
Left
Calling code
+1869
Internet TLD
.kn
ISO 3166
KN
Established
1967
Highest point
Mount Liamuiga (1,156 m (3,793 ft))
National anthem
O Land of Beauty!

Facts via Wikidata.

🗣️ Languages of St. Kitts & Nevis

English first; one language carries the country; 1 official.

LanguageShareStatus
English98%Official

Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.

English reach
98%
Tier 3 country
Effective languages
1.0
Official-language gap
2%
English is spoken by 98%

St. Kitts & Nevis on the languages board · Language power

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#57 / 191
0.840
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#185 / 193
$1.2B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#51 / 193
$25.2k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#59 / 190
$36.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#49 / 192
$24.5k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#115 / 194
72.3 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
35.3 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#170 / 194
32%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.2%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#52 / 193
180/km² (466/mi²)
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#34 / 193
17.0%
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#106 / 193
77%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#108 / 185
3.6%
World Bank · 2023
CO₂ per capita
#147 / 192
5.5 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#152 / 186
9%
Ember · 2024

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations5 full memberships

Political & Economic

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History4 leaders · click to expand
Terrance Drew✦ Current
Prime Minister · 3y 10m
2022–Present
Timothy Harris
Prime Minister · 7y 5m
2015–2022
Denzil Douglas
Prime Minister · 19y 7m
1995–2015
Kennedy Simmonds
Prime Minister · 11y 9m
1983–1995
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#146 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%2000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)

The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
47k
#212 in the world
Since 1800
2.72×
from 17k
Past its peak
−16.2%
peaked at 56k in 1960
Share of world
0.00%
0.00% in 1800
14k28k42k56k18001850190019502000

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. St. Kitts & Nevis is past its peak, which is less unusual than it sounds: the two lines here can point in opposite directions, and for most of Europe and East Asia they now both point down.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for St. Kitts & Nevis: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak
1960
56k; already passed
2050
44k
95% band 22k to 88k
2100
30k
95% band 4k to 381k
2100 against 2025
0.64×
median falling from 2031
Deaths outnumber births
from 2030
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
100k200k300k400k1950197520002025205020752100
estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
2k born · 733 died · -553 net migration
TFR 6.38 · life expectancy 54.8 · median age 21.2
1960
2k born · 817 died · -2k net migration
TFR 6.54 · life expectancy 56.8 · median age 16.3
1970
1k born · 542 died · -1k net migration
TFR 4.73 · life expectancy 61.4 · median age 15.0
1980
1k born · 531 died · -798 net migration
TFR 3.26 · life expectancy 64.4 · median age 19.1
1990
958 born · 488 died · -812 net migration
TFR 2.73 · life expectancy 65.6 · median age 22.3
2000
802 born · 426 died · +291 net migration
TFR 2.13 · life expectancy 69.2 · median age 25.7
2010
700 born · 427 died · -449 net migration
TFR 1.76 · life expectancy 71.5 · median age 29.6
2020
589 born · 492 died · -202 net migration
TFR 1.55 · life expectancy 71.2 · median age 34.2

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Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

🏆 National Teams

St. Kitts & Nevis on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.

🏟️ League Hubs

Domestic league portals that operate in St. Kitts & Nevis: 1 league.