Channel Islands
Channel Islands in numbers — 11 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Channel Islands recorded GDP per capita: 74,586 (2023), ranking 15 of 212 worldwide; Population: 168,466 (2025), ranking 185 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 81.2 (2024), ranking 45 of 217 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP growth shows the largest increase (+203%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-77%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 4 of 11 comparable series are higher and 6 are lower.
Its population of 168,466 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
10 of 11 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 168,466 | 2025 | +52.0% |
| Population growth | 0.2% | 2025 | -76.9% |
| Urban population | 32.64% | 2025 | -16.1% |
| Life expectancy | 81.2 | 2024 | +12.0% |
| Labor participation | 56.36% | 2025 | -1.3% |
| Unemployment | 6.17% | 2025 | +8.6% |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | 0.0% |
| Forest area | 5.15% | 2021 | +22.9% |
| GDP | 12,507,320,838.39 | 2023 | +110.4% |
| GDP per capita | 74,585.52 | 2023 | +84.3% |
| GDP growth | 3.72% | 2023 | +203.0% |