Updates (Maps / Infographics)

KEY ISSUES INFRASTRUCTURE AND SEA LEVEL RISE Barbados tops the Caribbean region in the quality of infrastructure index ranking 30th out of 138 countries in the quality of infrastructure index. The...

KEY ISSUES SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS Compared to metropolitan France, two to four times more people live below the poverty line in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana.1 In French Guiana, the...

KEY ISSUES EMIGRATION & REMITTANCES Jamaica faces a serious brain drain problem due to lack of economic opportunities and high unemployment. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the long-term effects of brain...

KEY ISSUES LA SOUFREIRE VOLCANO & HURRICANE ELSA In early April 2021, ash fall from the La Soufrière volcano affected the island’s water supply and communities in the southern part of the country,...

KEY ISSUES HAITIAN POPULATION Haitians constitute the largest immigrant group in TCI with a population of more than 10,000, representing a third of TCI’stotal population and 80 per cent of residents...

KEY ISSUES SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY The high GDP of Anguilla masks its economic and social inequalities. Hurricane Irma had a significant impact on the economy, leading to a decline of 97 per...

KEY ISSUES FOOD & NUTRITION SECURITY The country is currently experiencing a double burden of malnutrition, as there has been an alarming increase both in the prevalence of obesity (29 per cent) and...

KEY ISSUES VOLCANIC ERUPTION In April 2021, the La Soufrière Volcano erupted with ash and pyroclastic flows with damage to communities in both the RED and ORANGE zones on the island. Over 13,000...

KEY ISSUES 2017 HURRICANE SEASON In 2017, Hurricane Irma and Maria caused widespread devastation in BVI, causing the deaths of 9 people and severely affecting the productive sectors of BVI´s economy...

KEY ISSUES HURRICANES ETA & IOTA In November 2020, back-to-back hurricanes Eta and Iota triggered unprecedented flooding across the country, affecting some 60,000 people – around 15 per cent of the...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT The economy and people of Dominica, still reeling from the impact of Hurricane Maria, have been hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis. The sudden stop in tourism, which...

KEY ISSUES VENEZUELAN REFUGEES & MIGRANTS The deteriorating socioeconomic and human rights situation in Venezuela has forced many people to flee to neighbouring Aruba (19,000) and Curaçao (19,000).1...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Guyana’s economy grew by an extraordinary 43.5 per cent in 2020, boosted by the introduction of the oil sector, outweighing the negative impacts of the pandemic on the...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT The Cayman Islands enjoy a relatively high standard of living, with one of the highest GDP per capita in the region and low poverty levels. However, these indicators also...

KEY ISSUES SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Employment income that supports personal consumption has decreased by 7.4 percent for the first three quarters of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Trinidad and Tobago’s economy has slightly improved with a 14.35 per cent increase in GDP per capita when comparing 2020 and 2022 figures. During 2022, real GDP growth is...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT The Bahamas is a high-income economy heavily dependent on the tourism and financial service sector. While its GDP has risen steadily for the past three decades, the country...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Suriname´s economy is highly dependent on the extractive sector, with oil and gold accounting for approximately 85 per cent of the country´s exports and 27 per cent of the...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Saint Kitts and Nevis is a small two-island country that enjoys one of the highest GDP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, almost 1 in 5 people on the...

SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT Montserrat has one of the highest poverty rates among Eastern Caribbean countries, with more than 36 per cent of its population living in poverty and 3 per cent in extreme...