US Virgin Islands (United States Virgin Islands)
https://www.humantruth.info/us_virgin_islands.html
By Vexen Crabtree 2013
| US Virgin Islands United States Virgin Islands |  |
|---|---|
| Status | Dependency (Territory) |
| Sovereignty | USA |
| Capital | Charlotte Amalie |
| Land Area | 350km21 |
| Location | North America, The Americas, The Caribbean |
| Groupings | Small Islands |
| Population | |
| GNI | |
| ISO3166-1 Codes | VI, VIR, 8502 |
| Internet Domain | .vi3 |
| Currency | Dollar (USD)4 |
| Telephone | +5 |
- Overview
- US Virgin Islands's Demographics and Migration
- US Virgin Islands's Health
- US Virgin Islands's Responsibility Towards The Environment
- US Virgin Islands's Modernity and Learning
- Religion and Beliefs
- Links
1. Overview
“During the 17th century, the archipelago was divided into two territorial units, one English and the other Danish. Sugarcane, produced by African slave labor, drove the islands' economy during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, the US purchased the Danish portion, which had been in economic decline since the abolition of slavery in 1848.”
CIA's The World Factbook (2013)6
“Consistently balmy weather, ridiculously white sand shores, diving and snorkeling, and calypso-wafting beach bars: the US and British Virgin Islands have the tropical thing down. Although considered one archipelago, the Virgin Islands are divided between two countries: the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI).With more than 90 little landmasses bobbing in a triangular patch of sea, steady trade winds, calm currents and hundreds of protected bays, it´s easy to see how the Virgins became a tropical fantasyland.
The US Virgins hold the lion´s share of population and development. St Thomas has more resorts and water sports than you can shake a beach towel at and the largest Virgin, St Croix, pleases divers and drinkers with extraordinary scuba sites and rum factories.
The British Virgins are officially territories of Her Majesty´s land, but aside from plates of fish and chips, there´s little that´s overtly British.
Believe it or not, a day will come during your Virgin stay when you decide enough with the beach lounging. Then it´s time to snorkel with turtles and spotted eagle rays, dive to explore a 19th-century shipwreck, hike to petroglyphs and sugar-mill ruins and kayak through a bioluminescent bay.”
As a territory of the USA I do not have many specific statistics for this territory in its own right.
2. US Virgin Islands's Demographics and Migration
#birth_control #demographics #fertility #health #overpopulation #population #yemen
Population:
This country has a fertility rate of 2.00. The fertility rate is, in simple terms, the average amount of children that each woman has. The higher the figure, the quicker the population will grow, although, to calculate the rate you also need to take into account morbidity - the rate at which people die. If people live healthy and long lives and morbidity is low, then, 2.0 approximates to the replacement rate (two new children for each set of parents who die), which would keep the population stable. If all countries had such a fertility rate, population growth would end. The actual replacement rate in most developed countries is around 2.1. The highest fertility rate ever detected in a single year was in Yemen in 1985, at 8.86.8| Fertility Rate 2.0 is best9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | 20229 | |
| 1 | US Virgin Islands | 2.00 |
| 2 | Ecuador | 2.00 |
| 3 | Nepal | 2.01 |
| 4 | India | 2.01 |
| 5 | Belize | 1.99 |
| 6 | Grenada | 1.99 |
| 7 | New Caledonia | 2.02 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka | 1.97 |
| 9 | Faroe Islands | 2.05 |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 1.95 |
| 11 | Vietnam | 1.94 |
| 12 | Georgia | 2.06 |
| World Avg | 2.47 | |
| q=208. | ||
3. US Virgin Islands's Health
#birth_control #demographics #health #overpopulation
Health:
When it comes to public health, The US Virgin Islands has exemplary public policy and a uniquely healthy culture. The US Virgin Islands does the best in its fertility rate9. The number of overweight adults has increased by 14% during the last 40 years. US Virgin Islands's peak fertility rate was 5.45, in 1960.| Fertility Rate 2.0 is best9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | 20229 | |
| 1 | US Virgin Islands | 2.00 |
| 2 | Ecuador | 2.00 |
| 3 | Nepal | 2.01 |
| 4 | India | 2.01 |
| 5 | Belize | 1.99 |
| 6 | Grenada | 1.99 |
| 7 | New Caledonia | 2.02 |
| 8 | Sri Lanka | 1.97 |
| 9 | Faroe Islands | 2.05 |
| 10 | Bangladesh | 1.95 |
| 11 | Vietnam | 1.94 |
| 12 | Georgia | 2.06 |
| The Americas Avg | 1.80 | |
| World Avg | 2.47 | |
| q=208. | ||
4. US Virgin Islands's Responsibility Towards The Environment
#biodiversity #deforestation #over-exploitation #the_environment
This rank is derived from 1 data sets. And finally, it does worse than average in terms of its forested percent change 2000-202010.| Forest Area Change 2000-2020 Higher is better10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Total10 | |
| 1 | Guernsey | 82.6% |
| 2 | Bahrain | 75.2% |
| 3 | Iceland | 64.7% |
| ... | ||
| 154 | British Virgin Islands | -1.4% |
| 155 | Cayman Islands | -1.6% |
| 156 | Bangladesh | -1.9% |
| 157 | US Virgin Islands | -1.9% |
| 158 | Sri Lanka | -2.5% |
| 159 | Central African Rep. | -2.6% |
| 160 | Malaysia | -2.9% |
| 161 | S. Korea | -2.9% |
| The Americas Avg | -2.1% | |
| World Avg | -0.1% | |
| q=234. | ||
From 2000 to 2010, the United States Virgin Islands destroyed -10% of its forest cover, falling from 20 thousand hectares, to 18. But during the 2010s, it restored 8%.
5. US Virgin Islands's Modernity and Learning
#education #modernity #technology #the_internet
| Compared to The Americas (2020)11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Lower is better Avg Rank11 | |
| 1 | Canada | 21.9 |
| 2 | USA | 28.2 |
| 3 | Argentina | 43.6 |
| ... | ||
| 22 | Ecuador | 82.9 |
| 23 | Dominica | 83.8 |
| 24 | Antigua & Barbuda | 84.0 |
| 25= | US Virgin Islands | 86.0 |
| 25= | Belize | 86.0 |
| 27 | Panama | 87.0 |
| 28 | Venezuela | 89.5 |
| 29 | Greenland | 90.0 |
| 30= | St Vincent & Grenadines | 90.3 |
| The Americas Avg | 81.3 | |
| q=41. | ||
| Modernity & Learning (2020)11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Lower is better Avg Rank11 | |
| 1 | Finland | 7.7 |
| 2 | Taiwan | 10.0 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 14.7 |
| ... | ||
| 110 | Oman | 84.8 |
| 111 | Morocco | 85.1 |
| 112 | Lebanon | 85.7 |
| 113= | US Virgin Islands | 86.0 |
| 113= | Belize | 86.0 |
| 115 | Panama | 87.0 |
| 116 | Indonesia | 89.3 |
| 117 | Venezuela | 89.5 |
| World Avg | 82.7 | |
| q=205. | ||
Technology and Information:
| Internet Users Higher is better12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | 201612 | |
| 1 | Iceland | 100% |
| 2 | Faroe Islands | 99% |
| 3 | Norway | 98% |
| ... | ||
| 87 | Colombia | 57% |
| 88 | Costa Rica | 56% |
| 89 | Kazakhstan | 56% |
| 90= | US Virgin Islands | 54% |
| 90= | Serbia | 54% |
| 92 | Maldives | 54% |
| 93 | Georgia | 53% |
| 94 | China | 52% |
| The Americas Avg | 56.4% | |
| World Avg | 48.1% | |
| q=201. | ||
| IPv6 Uptake Higher is better13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pos. | 2017 Ratio13 | |
| 1 | Belgium | 55.4 |
| 2 | Germany | 41.8 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 35.1 |
| ... | ||
| 84= | Pakistan | 0.0 |
| 84= | Paraguay | 0.0 |
| 84= | Chile | 0.0 |
| 84= | US Virgin Islands | 0.0 |
| 84= | Mauritius | 0.0 |
| 89 | Botswana | 0.0 |
| 90= | El Salvador | 0.0 |
| 90= | Kenya | 0.0 |
| The Americas Avg | 3.36 | |
| World Avg | 3.82 | |
| q=176. | ||
6. Religion and Beliefs
#buddhism #christianity #hinduism #islam #judaism
Data from the Pew Forum, a professional polling outfit, states that in 2010 the religious makeup of this country was as follows in the table below14:
| Christian | 94.8% |
| Muslim | 0.1% |
| Hindu | 0.4% |
| Buddhist | 0.1% |
| Folk Religion | 0.1% |
| Jewish | 0.3% |
| Unaffiliated | 3.7% |
The CIA World Factbook has slightly different data, and states: Protestant 59% (Baptist 42%, Episcopalian 17%), Roman Catholic 34%, other 7%15.
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