United States Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands: Minimal Data, No Independent Security Profile

The U.S. Virgin Islands is a territory, and the fact bundle available for this briefing is correspondingly thin. World Bank WDI data put the territory's GDP at $4.67 billion in 2022 and GDP per capita at $44,321 for the same year. Population was recorded at 104,377 in 2024, also per World Bank WDI — a one-year gap between the population figure and the economic figures above.

Our World in Data figures show primary energy consumption of 0.035 exajoules and electricity generation of 0.68 terawatt-hours, both for 2023. Oil and gas production are both recorded as 0.0 terawatt-hours for 2016.

Data Gaps

This bundle contains no governance data: V-Dem indicators for electoral democracy, liberal democracy, and state capacity are all absent. It contains no defense or military data of any kind — no SIPRI military expenditure figure, no Correlates of War personnel count, and no CINC score — which is expected for a non-sovereign territory that does not maintain independent armed forces, but it means no defense-burden analysis is possible here. There is no IMF government debt or reserves data, consistent with the territory not having its own seat at the IMF. The oil and gas production figures are a decade stale, dated 2016, and should be read only as confirmation that the territory reported no production in that year, not as a current-year statement. In short: this briefing can speak to the territory's size and energy use, and nothing more.

Sources: World Bank WDI, Our World in Data (Energy).