Belize World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Belize	Rank
GDP	$1.9B	176
GDP growth, 1 year	3%	102
GDP growth, 5-years average	2.2%	122
Population	375k	172
GDP per capita	$4.9k	109
GDP per capita growth	1.07%	130
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	1.13	142
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.56	72
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$8.5k	124
GNI, Atlas method	$1.7B	171
GNI per capita	$4.5k	106
GNI, PPP adjusted	$3B	167
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$7.8k	120

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Belize	Rank
Income Tax Rate	25%	70
Corporate Tax Rate	25%	97
Inflation, consumer prices	0.3%	9
Inflation, GDP deflator	-1.1%	8
Unemployment	9.4%	146
Economic Freedom Index	57.4	121
Personal Freedom Index	7.4	77
Human Freedom Index	7.37	62
Property Rights Index	44.4	134
Judical Effectiveness Index	46.4	78
Business Freedom Index	60.9	105
Fiscal Health Index	53.9	134
Labor Freedom Index	54.3	115
Investment Freedom Index	55	103
Financial Freedom Index	50	81
Trade Freedom Index	64.2	143
Monetary Freedom Index	80.4	50
Government Spending Index	66.3	103
Tax Burden Index	79.5	79
Government Integrity Index	33.5	111
Corruption Perceptions Index	58	52
Life expectancy at birth, years	74.4	90
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	4.7	60
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	28.3	173
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	37.9	192
International tourism, number of arrivals	489k	134

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Belize	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	94.8%	22
External debt stocks, % of GNI	76.8%	21
External debt stocks	$1.4B	100
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	1.2%	101
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	10.1%	69
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-0.9%	126
Gross savings, % of GDP	8.5%	161
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	19%	140
Total reserves including gold	$294.5M	158
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$119.5M	140

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Belize	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	57.7%	37
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	58%	51
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$154.9M	76
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	29.4%	51
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$17.1M	141
Personal remittances received	$92.5M	144
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	12%	178
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	9.6%	79
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$7.9M	112
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$2.5M	93
Expense, % of GDP	27.6%	65
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	33.5%	75