Population
According to
Countryaah, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, like many of the other
Caribbean states, have a high average population density; In
2019, it was 283 residents per km2. Population
growth is dampened by extensive emigration. The country's
largest city is the capital Kingstown, which in 2013 had
12,900 residents.
Language
English is the official language. The majority of the
population speak a variant of Caribbean Creole English. A
former French-based Creole language is now extinct, as is
the Caribbean, whose last speaker died about 1920.
Religion
The influence remains from the Spanish colonial church.
The majority of Christians are now Protestants, with roots
in English colonial Christianity after 1672. Anglicans,
Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists and followers of
Pentecostal movements. 10% of the population are Catholics,
belonging to a diocese founded in 1989. Ecumenical
cooperation takes place through the Caribbean Council of
Churches, mostly in the form of social work for the poor and
marginalized. Neo-African religious traditions are very much
alive. There is a widespread revival culture. Shaker
movement.
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