Antigua has a population of 85,632, mostly made up of people of West African, British, and Portuguese descent.

The ethnic distribution consists of 91% Black, Mulatto and mixed Black/Amerindian, 4.4% other mixed race, 1.7% White, and 2.9% other (primarily East Indian and Asian).

Most Whites are of Irish or British descent. Christian Levantine Arabs (mostly from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine), Portuguese, and a small number of Asians and Sephardic Jews make up the remainder of the population.