Belize
Belize in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Belize recorded GDP per capita: 7,865 (2025), ranking 115 of 212 worldwide; Population: 422,924 (2025), ranking 174 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 73.7 (2024), ranking 120 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 1.06% (2025), ranking 149 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+11750%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-91%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on most of them. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 4 of 19 comparable series are higher and 15 are lower.
Its population of 422,924 (2025) makes it one of the smallest populations in this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 3,326,500,000 | 2025 | +11749.7% |
| GDP per capita | 7,865.48 | 2025 | +2458.6% |
| GDP growth | 2.75% | 2025 | -43.8% |
| Population | 422,924 | 2025 | +363.1% |
| Population growth | 1.39% | 2025 | -44.3% |
| Urban population | 41.56% | 2025 | -22.9% |
| Inflation | 1.06% | 2025 | -90.5% |
| Life expectancy | 73.74 | 2024 | +28.5% |
| Infant mortality | 10.8 | 2024 | -87.2% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.93 | 2024 | +87.9% |
| GDP (PPP) | 6,329,375,749.73 | 2025 | +673.9% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 14,965.75 | 2025 | +235.0% |
| Labor participation | 59.1% | 2025 | +6.7% |
| Unemployment | 8.86% | 2025 | -8.2% |
| Electricity access | 99.6% | 2024 | +48.7% |
| Internet users | 80.01% | 2024 | — |
| Education spending | 4.62% | 2024 | +14.6% |
| Forest area | 54.52% | 2023 | -22.3% |
| Health spending | 4.15% | 2023 | +41.1% |