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Life expectancy at birth in United States Virgin Islands

75.47

years, 2023

Moderate trust, 60 of 100 Only one source (UN WPP), so it cannot be checked against another.

Each source by year: years
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YearUN World Population Prospects 2024
195059.9
195157.11
195258.88
195361.45
195463.81
195562.94
195660.95
195761.84
195864.57
195961.81
196062.65
196163.23
196262.78
196361.52
196464.22
196564.77
196663.73
196764.45
196865.17
196965.81
197066.43
197167.02
197265.55
197367.04
197467.34
197567.64
197667.85
197768.07
197868.29
197968.51
198068.74
198168.92
198269.13
198369.35
198469.54
198569.68
198669.97
198770.19
198870.4
198970.53
199070.68
199170.81
199270.97
199371.09
199471.24
199571.19
199671.6
199770.91
199871.26
199971.11
200071.8
200172.22
200272.05
200372.01
200471.83
200572.23
200672.48
200772.59
200872.66
200972.92
201073.23
201173.4
201273.7
201373.95
201474.2
201574.31
201674.42
201774.37
201874.68
201974.88
202074.71
202174.61
202275.04
202375.47

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United States Virgin Islands among 237 countries

116 have a higher figure and 120 a lower one. Definitions differ between countries, and their years run from 2023 to 2025.

Lowest: Nigeria, 54.46Highest: Monaco, 86.37
What this number counts
Counts
Life expectancy at birth, both sexes: the years a newborn would live if the death rates by age of that year stayed the same for life (a period life table)
Where
United States Virgin Islands
When
Latest year each source has: UN WPP 2023 (each source's latest year)

The figure from UN WPP, the only source that counts here.

Where the number comes from (1 source)
SourceFigure and yearDefinitionQualityCounts for
UN World Population Prospects 2024United Nations, Population Division · Model-based estimateRetrieved 2026-11-02
75.472023
Column LEx: life expectancy at birth, both sexes, for the calendar year, from the UN's modelled period life tables (methodology report, PDF page 69).

Estimates run to 2023; later years in the file are projections and are left out.

Raw file: WPP2024_Demographic_Indicators_Medium.csv.gz (last modified 13 December 2024).

4 of 5 checks
  • Yes: Method and definitions published. The UN publishes a full methodology report for this revision.
  • Yes: Official statistics or peer-reviewed. Official UN estimates.
  • No: Full count or representative sample. Not shown to rest on a full count of deaths: WHO's 2026 life-table paper does not list this territory, so no rating of its death registration is available.
  • Yes: Raw data downloadable. The whole table is a free CSV download.
  • Yes: No known break or quality problem. No specific problem found, but wHO's 2026 life-table paper does not list this territory, so no rating of its death registration is available.
100%

Better and more direct sources count for more. A source that only copies another does not count.

  • UN WPP100%
How the trust score was worked out
Quality32 / 40

How well the sources are made

Agreement15 / 30

Unknown with one source, so set to half

Independence6 / 20

How many separate ways the number was measured

Freshness7 / 10

How recent the newest data is

How the score works

Who reports it, and since when

Which kinds of source measure this number, which years each one published, and where the reporting stops or has holes.

No source of these kinds: death and health registers.

  • Single source: nothing to check it against
Years each source has a figure here
'99'00'05'10'15'20'23UN WPP

figure no figure here, inside its range no later figure recorded change

Why the numbers differ
  • Every source here is a period life table: it applies one year's death rates by age to a newborn for a whole life. It is a summary of that year's mortality, not a forecast of how long a baby born today will live, so a bad year pulls it down at once.
  • Sources stop in different years, so a row counts only lines within one year of its newest source. A national population projection never counts and never sets that year, as with OECD's 2025 figures for Colombia, Mexico and Peru. WHO's downloadable file ends in 2021, a pandemic year, so WHO lines are shown with their series but not counted. The UN's estimates end in 2023, so they are not counted where OECD reports 2025: Chile, Costa Rica. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • Where deaths are not fully registered, the figure is modelled from surveys, censuses and child-mortality estimates. In 2021 the median gap between the UN and WHO was 0.39 years in countries WHO lists under vital registration and 1.18 years in those it lists under model life tables. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • Where deaths are well registered the sources sit close together: in 28 of 36 countries with a Eurostat figure for 2023 the UN figure is within half a year of it. Eurostat recalculates from reported deaths, and the UN fits a model to the same registers. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • According to OECD's sources document, as read on 2 November 2026 (the copy is kept with the raw files; scripted requests to the link got HTTP 200 and, in a later check, HTTP 403), methods differ in the detail. Australia, New Zealand and Türkiye use three-year periods, and OECD averages men and women for Japan and the United Kingdom. Eurostat and Statistics Norway treat ages above 90 differently, and Mexico, Colombia and Peru report figures from population projections. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
  • These lines are not fully independent. WHO uses the UN's population estimates and registered deaths the UN also uses. OECD's sources document, as read on 2 November 2026 (the copy is kept with the raw files; scripted requests to the link got HTTP 200 and, in a later check, HTTP 403), names Eurostat for 28 countries and the World Bank for 8, whose figures match the UN series, and those lines are not counted. For the United Kingdom and Türkiye, Eurostat and OECD rest on the same national registers, so only the newer of the two counts. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
Common mistakes
  • Life expectancy at birth is not the age most people reach. Deaths in childhood pull the average down, so a low figure does not mean adults there usually die at that age.
  • A World Bank or OECD figure is often not a second source. Check whose data it repeats before treating two matching numbers as agreement.
  • A UN figure for a recent year in a country with thin registration is an estimate from a model, even when it is printed to several decimals. (source, retrieved 2026-11-02)
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