Enrichment
Caribbean
Caribbean is a region.
Key facts
- continent: Americas
- number of countries: 13
- land area: 208,081 km²
- population: 39,699,448
Environment
Metrics
| agricultural land | 111,839.00 km² |
| alternative and nuclear energy | 0.61 % of total energy use |
| carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) | 77,137.70 kt |
| electricity production from coal sources | 2.57 % of total |
| electricity production from natural gas sources | 27.27 % of total |
| electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 3.55 % of total |
| electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| electricity production from oil sources | 56.28 % of total |
| electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 3.22 % of total |
| net energy imports | 27.58 % of energy use |
| fertility rate | 1.73 births per woman |
| forest area | 72,170 km² |
| fossil fuel energy consumption | 28.85 % of total |
| other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | -15,802.30 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| median age | 29.12 years |
| methane emissions | 37,618.30 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| nitrous oxide emissions | 9,102.71 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| female population | 19,966,862 |
| male population | 19,732,586 |
| renewable energy consumption | 13.07 % of total final energy consumption |
| rural land area | 207,193.00 km² |
| rural population | 11,706,390 |
| urban land area | 9,384.85 km² |
| urban population | 27,993,058 |
| urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 3.33 % of total population |
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Countries in Caribbean
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Business
Metrics
| central government debt | 65.76 % of GDP |
| expense | 25.93 % of GDP |
| GDP | 314,840,000,000.00 current US$ |
| inflation | 92.75 annual % |
| self-employed | 33.27 % of total employment |
| tax revenue | 19.73 % of GDP |
| unemployment | 9.04 % of total labor force |
| vulnerable employment | 29.97 % of total employment |
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Health
Metrics
| birth rate | 13.42 per 1,000 people |
| death rate | 9.49 per 1,000 people |
| health expenditure per capita | 758.00 current US$ |
| health expenditure | 6.41 % of GDP |
| incidence of HIV | 0.32 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| hospital beds | 2.89 per 1,000 people |
| life expectancy at birth | 72 years |
| suicide mortality rate | 4.93 per 100,000 population |
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Politics
Metrics
| armed forces personnel | 162,000 |
| democracy score | 28.63 |
| military expenditure | 1.14 % of GDP |
| proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 24.65 % |
Source
This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank
Updated: 1 day ago
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