Afghanistan vs the Cayman Islands: Economic Indicators Comparison

Afghanistan with a GDP of $19.4B ranked the 116th largest economy in the world, while the Cayman Islands ranked 158th with $5.1B. By GDP per capita, Afghanistan and the Cayman Islands ranked 191st vs 6th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Afghanistan	Cayman Islands
GDP	$19.4B	$5.1B
GDP growth, 1 year	2.3%	3.04%
GDP growth, 5-years average	2.2%	N/A
Population	34.9M	58k
GDP per capita	$521	$81k
GDP per capita growth	-1.35%	1.72%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	19.27	0.93
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.27	1.12
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	$73k
GNI, Atlas method	$20.3B	$3B
GNI per capita	$550	$47k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$73.1B	$2.8B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	$44k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Afghanistan	Cayman Islands
Income Tax Rate	20%	N/A
Corporate Tax Rate	20%	N/A
Inflation, consumer prices	0.6%	-0.6%
Inflation, GDP deflator	0.8%	1.9%
Unemployment	1.5%	4.2%
Economic Freedom Index	54.7	74
Personal Freedom Index	4	8.1
Human Freedom Index	4	8.1
Property Rights Index	48.3	N/A
Judical Effectiveness Index	30	N/A
Business Freedom Index	54.7	N/A
Fiscal Health Index	99.9	N/A
Labor Freedom Index	61.6	N/A
Investment Freedom Index	10	N/A
Financial Freedom Index	10	N/A
Trade Freedom Index	66	N/A
Monetary Freedom Index	81	N/A
Government Spending Index	79.2	N/A
Tax Burden Index	91.4	N/A
Government Integrity Index	24.8	N/A
Corruption Perceptions Index	16	76
Life expectancy at birth, years	64.1	82.2
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	4.7	0.5
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	15.1	14
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	7.1	8.5
International tourism, number of arrivals	N/A	463k

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Afghanistan	Cayman Islands
Central government debt, % of GDP	7.1%	N/A
External debt stocks, % of GNI	13.4%	N/A
External debt stocks	$2.6B	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	4.4%	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	4.9%	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	2.7%	N/A
Gross savings, % of GDP	18.7%	N/A
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	19.2%	N/A
Total reserves including gold	$8.2B	$162.1M
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$119.4M	$57.4B

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Afghanistan	Cayman Islands
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	5.9%	N/A
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	45.3%	N/A
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$3.7B	-$997.9M
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	12.2%	N/A
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$3.3B	$0
Personal remittances received	$803.5M	$15.6M
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	22.1%	7.2%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	20.5%	0.4%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$2.4M	$68M
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$13k	$9.3M
Expense, % of GDP	36.7%	N/A
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	26.3%	N/A