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Caribbean
Key facts
- continent: Americas
- number of countries: 13
- land area: 208,081 km²
- population: 39,932,508 people
Classified as: place
Summary
Caribbean is a region. It is located in Americas. It comprises 13 countries for a land area of 208,081 km² and a population of 39,932,508 people.
Environment
Caribbean is one of the regions in Americas and 22 regions in our database.
- Agricultural land: 111,839.40 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 0.61 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 89.99 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Access to electricity: 95.51 % of population
- 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: 22.27 births per woman
- Forest area: 72,170 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 28.85 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 158.98 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 383.30
- Methane emissions: 55.01 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 9.67 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 20,092,969 people
- Male population: 19,839,541 people
- Renewable energy consumption: 12.78 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 207,192.66 km²
- Rural population: 11,586,284 people
- Urban land area: 9,384.86 km²
- Urban population: 28,346,224 people
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 43.28 % of total population
Geographical distribution of cities in Caribbean by population
Cities in Caribbean
Countries in Caribbean
Global density of countries in Caribbean
Relationship between population and agricultural land in Caribbean
Evolution of historical agricultural land in Caribbean
Relationship between agricultural land and methane emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between agricultural land and nitrous oxide emissions in Caribbean
Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy in Caribbean
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and GDP in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide and methane emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and urban land area in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical access to electricity in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and fertility rate in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and life expectancy at birth in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and renewable energy consumption in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and self-employed workers in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and vulnerable employment in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from natural gas sources in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Caribbean
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in Caribbean
Evolution of historical net energy imports in Caribbean
Evolution of historical fertility rate in Caribbean
Relationship between fertility rate and life expectancy at birth in Caribbean
Relationship between fertility rate and median age in Caribbean
Evolution of historical forest area in Caribbean
Relationship between forest area and rural land area in Caribbean
Evolution of historical fossil fuel energy consumption in Caribbean
Relationship between fossil fuel and renewable energy consumption in Caribbean
Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Caribbean
Relationship between methane emissions and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) over time in Caribbean
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) over time in Caribbean
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban land area in Caribbean
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical land area in Caribbean
Evolution of historical median age in Caribbean
Evolution of historical methane emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between methane and nitrous oxide emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between methane emissions and population in Caribbean
Relationship between methane emissions and rural population in Caribbean
Relationship between methane emissions and urban land area in Caribbean
Relationship between methane emissions and urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and population in Caribbean
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and urban land area in Caribbean
Relationship between nitrous oxide emissions and urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical population in Caribbean
Relationship between population and urban land area in Caribbean
Evolution of historical female population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical male population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption in Caribbean
Evolution of historical rural land area in Caribbean
Evolution of historical rural population in Caribbean
Relationship between rural population and urban land area in Caribbean
Evolution of historical urban land area in Caribbean
Relationship between urban land area and urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical urban population in Caribbean
Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Caribbean
Relationship between population and date in Caribbean
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in Caribbean
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Health
- Birth rate: 171.96 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 114.89 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 10,579.49 current US$
- Health expenditure: 6.72 % of GDP
- Incidence of hiv: 1.99 per 1,000 uninfected population
- Hospital beds: 41.98 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 953.00
- Suicide mortality rate: 54.20 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical birth rate in Caribbean
Relationship between access to electricity and birth rate over time in Caribbean
Relationship between birth rate and fertility rate in Caribbean
Relationship between birth rate and life expectancy at birth in Caribbean
Relationship between birth rate and median age in Caribbean
Relationship between birth rate and proportion of self-employed workers in Caribbean
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Evolution of historical death rate in Caribbean
Relationship between death rate and life expectancy at birth in Caribbean
Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in Caribbean
Evolution of historical health expenditure in Caribbean
Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Caribbean
Evolution of historical hospital beds in Caribbean
Evolution of historical life expectancy at birth in Caribbean
Relationship between life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers in Caribbean
Relationship between life expectancy and vulnerable employment in Caribbean
Evolution of historical suicide mortality rate in Caribbean
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 162,000 people
- Democracy score: 28.63
- Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 311,000 people
- Individuals using the internet: 78.10 % of population
- Military expenditure: 1.14 % of GDP
- Net migration: -78,209 people
- Press freedom: 16.92
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 24.83 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Caribbean
Relationship between armed forces personnel and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Caribbean
Relationship between armed forces personnel and methane emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between armed forces personnel and nitrous oxide emissions in Caribbean
Relationship between armed forces personnel and population in Caribbean
Relationship between armed forces personnel and rural population in Caribbean
Relationship between urban land area and armed forces personnel in Caribbean
Relationship between urban population and armed forces personnel in Caribbean
Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Caribbean
Evolution of historical individuals using the Internet in Caribbean
Evolution of historical military expenditure in Caribbean
Evolution of historical net migration in Caribbean
Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Caribbean
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Business
- Central government debt: 65.56 % of GDP
- Expense: 25.80 % of GDP
- Gdp: 325,612,607,444.79 current US$
- Self-employed workers: 33.27 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 20.68 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 8.54 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 29.97 % of total employment
Relationship between expense and health expenditure in Caribbean
Evolution of historical central government debt in Caribbean
Evolution of historical expense in Caribbean
Evolution of historical GDP in Caribbean
Relationship between GDP and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Caribbean
Evolution of historical inflation in Caribbean
Evolution of historical proportion of self-employed workers in Caribbean
Relationship between self-employment and vulnerable employment in Caribbean
Evolution of historical tax revenue in Caribbean
Evolution of historical unemployment in Caribbean
Evolution of historical vulnerable employment in Caribbean
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This dashboard is based on data from: World Bank
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