Saint Lucia 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	Saint Lucia	Rank
GDP	$1.9B	175
GDP growth, 1 year	1%	167
GDP growth, 5-years average	1.8%	140
Population	179k	178
GDP per capita	$11k	71
GDP per capita growth	0.34%	154
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	2.06	116
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.76	34
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$14k	95
GNI, Atlas method	$1.7B	170
GNI per capita	$9.6k	68
GNI, PPP adjusted	$2.4B	172
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$13k	96

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Saint Lucia	Rank
Income Tax Rate	30%	92
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	142
Inflation, consumer prices	1.9%	67
Inflation, GDP deflator	4.9%	135
Unemployment	20.9%	187
Economic Freedom Index	68.2	54
Personal Freedom Index	6.5	123
Human Freedom Index	6.5	123
Property Rights Index	69.8	46
Judical Effectiveness Index	62.6	32
Business Freedom Index	76.7	35
Fiscal Health Index	83.8	81
Labor Freedom Index	66.4	54
Investment Freedom Index	65	72
Financial Freedom Index	40	113
Trade Freedom Index	73.2	104
Monetary Freedom Index	82	33
Government Spending Index	80.6	55
Tax Burden Index	76.9	95
Government Integrity Index	41.8	81
Corruption Perceptions Index	55	61
Life expectancy at birth, years	75.9	74
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	7.8	104
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	35.4	196
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	29.6	185
International tourism, number of arrivals	395k	140

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Saint Lucia	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	66.8%	55
External debt stocks, % of GNI	35.1%	78
External debt stocks	$615.8M	109
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	31.9%	46
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	3.9%	103
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-2.3%	131
Gross savings, % of GDP	9.7%	157
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	21.6%	112
Total reserves including gold	$285.8M	159
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$40M	156

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Saint Lucia	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	36%	96
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	43.4%	92
Current account balance (balance of payments)	$102.8M	44
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	21.3%	94
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$5M	155
Personal remittances received	$43M	155
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	10.1%	183
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	2.1%	148
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$9.2M	108
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	-
Expense, % of GDP	19.4%	106
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	25.5%	124