Demographics of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are British Overseas Territories in the south Atlantic Ocean.

The population gradually decreased thereafter and reached 4,000 in 2024,[2] mainly descended from Africans, Mixed race African and Europeans, British settlers, East India Company employees and indentured labourers from the South Asian sub-Continent, East Indies, Madagascar and China.

However, the possibility of clear-cut categorical divisions between ethnicities on present day St Helena, as reflected by these statistics, is disputed.

Other religions in St. Helena include (in alphabetic order): the Baháʼí Faith,[11] the Baptist church, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, and Seventh-day Adventism.

[12] In Tristan da Cunha, Christianity is the main religion, with the largest denominations being Anglican and Roman Catholic.

The citizens of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha hold British Overseas Territories citizenship.