Antigua and Barbuda: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 45,400 people, so the population is now 2.1 times as large.

The UN projects 1,080 births and 690 deaths in 2026, 390 more births than deaths.

The UN projects the first year with more deaths than births in 2040.

The median age is 36.7, which is 5.6 years above the world’s 31.1.

17% of the people are under 15 and 13% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

The UN projects that people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under 15 from 2033.

Women have 1.6 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 5.1 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 78.1 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 58.1.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 95,100 people, 0.5% more than now, with a median age of 45.8.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 77.6 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 20.3 more years for women and 16.0 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 18.0 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 39.1.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 68,000, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 13,700 to 313,000.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 30,500 international migrants lived here, 32.5% of the population.

In mid-2024, 13,100 people from here lived in other countries.