Editing Saint Kitts and Nevis (section)

== Demographics ==
{{main|Demographics of Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
[[File:Downtown Basseterre, St. Kitts.jpg|thumb|Downtown Basseterre, St Kitts]]

=== Population ===
The population of Saint Kitts and Nevis is around 53,000 (July 2019 est.)<ref name="cia.gov"/> and has remained relatively constant for many years.<ref name="britannica.com"/> At the end of the nineteenth century there were 42,600 residents, the number slowly rising to a little over 50,000 by the mid-twentieth century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Data on St. Kitts and Nevis {{!}} Reconstructing Global Inequality|url=https://clio-infra.eu/Countries/StKittsandNevis.html|access-date=2021-01-26|website=clio-infra.eu|archive-date=5 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205111455/https://clio-infra.eu/Countries/StKittsandNevis.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Between 1960 and 1990, the population dropped from 50,000 to 40,000, before rising again to its current level. Approximately three-quarters of the population live on Saint Kitts, 15,500 of them in Basseterre. Other large settlements include [[Cayon]] (population 3,000) and [[Sandy Point Town]] (3,000), both on Saint Kitts, and [[Gingerland]] (2,500) and [[Charlestown, Saint Kitts and Nevis|Charlestown]] (1,900), both on Nevis.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}  It ranks number 209 on the list of countries and dependencies by population.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2023 |title=Countries in the World by Population (2023) |url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ |access-date=December 4, 2023 |website=Worldometer |archive-date=5 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105162622/http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Racial and ethnic groups===
The population is primarily [[Afro-Kittitians and Nevisians|Afro-Caribbean]] (92.5%), with significant minorities of [[White Kittitians and Nevisians|European]] (2.1%) and [[Indians in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Indian]] (1.5%) descent (2001 estimate).<ref name="cia.gov" />

===Emigration===
{{As of|{{UN_Population|Year}}}}, there were {{UN_Population|Saint Kitts and Nevis}} inhabitants; their average life expectancy is 76.9 years. Emigration has historically been very high, so high that the total estimated population in 2007 was little changed from that in 1961.<ref>{{cite book |title=United Nations Demographic Yearbook: 2016 |chapter-url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/documents/dyb2016/table05.pdf |page=2 |chapter=Table 5: Estimates of Mid-year Population: 2007–2016 |publisher=United Nations |year=2017 |access-date=8 January 2018 |archive-date=7 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607022918/https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/documents/dyb2016/table05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

Emigration from St Kitts and Nevis to the United States:<ref name="CIA">{{cite web|url=http://uscis.gov/|title=Homepage|website=Uscis.gov|access-date=30 August 2017|archive-date=25 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125090305/https://www.uscis.gov/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1986–1990: 3,513
* 1991–1995: 2,730
* 1996–2000: 2,101
* 2001–2005: 1,756
* 2006–2010: 1,817

===Languages===
English is the sole official language. [[Saint Kitts Creole]] is also widely spoken.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

=== Religion ===
{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in Saint Kitts and Nevis (2011)<ref name="2011Census">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stats.gov.kn/topics/demographic-social-statistics/population/population-by-religious-belief-2011/|title=Population by Religious Belief, 2011|access-date=18 June 2021|publisher=Department of Statistics, Ministry of Sustainable Development|archive-date=10 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710132420/https://www.stats.gov.kn/topics/demographic-social-statistics/population/population-by-religious-belief-2011/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Kitts.pdf|title=CARICOM CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (CCDP) : 2000 ROUND OF POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS SUB-PROJECT NATIONAL CENSUS REPORT : ST. KITTS AND NEVIS|website=Caricomstats.org|access-date=30 August 2017|archive-date=5 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205005511/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|label1 = Christianity
|value1 = 87.6
|color1 = purple
|label6 = Other
|value6 = 5.6
|color6 = yellow
|label2 = No religion (atheism, agnosticism, etc)
|value2 = 8.6
|color2 = pink
|label4 = Rasta
|value4 = 1.2
|color4 = brown
|label3 = Hinduism
|value3 = 1.15
|color3 = orange
|label5 = Muslim
|value5 = 1.89
|color5 = green
}}

Most inhabitants (82%) are [[Christians]], most of whom belong to [[Anglicanism|Anglican]], [[Methodist]], and other Protestant denominations.<ref name="cia.gov"/> [[Roman Catholics]] are pastorally served by the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John's–Basseterre]], and Anglicans by the [[Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

[[Hinduism]] is the largest non-Christian religion, followed by 1.82% of the population;<ref name="2011Census"/>  these are primarily [[Indians in Saint Kitts and Nevis|Indo-Kittitians and Indo-Nevisians]].{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}

According to the 2011 [[census]], 17 per cent of the population is Anglican, 16 per cent Methodist, 11 per cent [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]], 7 per cent [[Church of God in Christ|Church of God]], 6 per cent Roman Catholic, 5 per cent each Baptist, Moravian, [[Seventh-day Adventist]], and Wesleyan Holiness, 4 per cent "Other", and 2 per cent each Brethren, evangelical Christian, and Hindu.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Section I. Religious Demography 2020 Report on International Religious Freedom: Saint Kitts and Nevis |url=https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/saint-kitts-and-nevis/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20government,the%20population%20does%20not%20specify. |website= |access-date=2 September 2022 |archive-date=2 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902075701/https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/saint-kitts-and-nevis/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20U.S.%20government,the%20population%20does%20not%20specify. |url-status=live }}</ref>