Brunei vs Maldives: Economic Indicators Comparison

Brunei with a GDP of $13.6B ranked the 131st largest economy in the world, while Maldives ranked 155th with $5.3B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Brunei and Maldives ranked 173rd vs 22nd and 32nd vs 72nd, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Brunei	Maldives
GDP	$13.6B	$5.3B
GDP growth, 1 year	-0.2%	7%
GDP growth, 5-years average	-0.9%	6.3%
Population	429k	436k
GDP per capita	$32k	$10k
GDP per capita growth	-0.99%	2.89%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	0.53	10.39
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.39	0.67
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$80k	$22k
GNI, Atlas method	$12.7B	$4.8B
GNI per capita	$30k	$9.3k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$35.3B	$7.3B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$82k	$14k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Brunei	Maldives
Income Tax Rate	0%	0%
Corporate Tax Rate	18.5%	0%
Inflation, consumer prices	0.1%	1.5%
Inflation, GDP deflator	9.2%	5.3%
Unemployment	9.2%	6.1%
Economic Freedom Index	66.6	56.5
Personal Freedom Index	6.26	7.2
Human Freedom Index	6.66	7.1
Property Rights Index	69.8	48.5
Judical Effectiveness Index	56.8	31.7
Business Freedom Index	84.1	78.7
Fiscal Health Index	20	42.9
Labor Freedom Index	90.5	70.6
Investment Freedom Index	65	35
Financial Freedom Index	50	30
Trade Freedom Index	85	61
Monetary Freedom Index	77.1	77
Government Spending Index	61.5	67.9
Tax Burden Index	89.8	95.8
Government Integrity Index	49.6	39.2
Corruption Perceptions Index	63	31
Life expectancy at birth, years	75.6	78.3
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	4.6	2.3
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	8	0.9
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	0.5	0.8
International tourism, number of arrivals	278k	1.5M

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Brunei	Maldives
Central government debt, % of GDP	2.5%	61.5%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	48%
External debt stocks	N/A	$2.3B
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	36.4%
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	9.2%
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	34.6%	N/A
Gross savings, % of GDP	54.1%	N/A
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	41.1%	N/A
Total reserves including gold	$3.4B	$722.1M
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$511.5M	$538.5M

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Brunei	Maldives
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	51.9%	69.1%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	42%	77.2%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	$1.1B	-$1.4B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	N/A	25.7%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$200k	$72.6M
Personal remittances received	N/A	$4.2M
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	63.2%	12.9%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	1%	5.6%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$19.7M	$3.5M
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	$5.6M
Expense, % of GDP	N/A	25.1%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	35.8%	32.7%