Belize
61 figures for Belize, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Belize compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $7,865 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $14,966 (2025)
- Economic growth +2.7% (2025)
- Unemployment 8.9% (2025)
- Inflation +3.3% (2024)
- Exports 55.2% (2024)
- Income per person $12,345 (2023)
- Household wealth 77.5 (2014)
- Poorer households 10.6% (2014)
- Wealth inequality 0.12 (2014)
People
- Population 411,112 (2023)
- Population growth +1.39% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.02 (2024)
- Typical age 25.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 41.6% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.721 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.981 (2023)
- People per household 3.8 (2014)
- People over 65 4.2% (2014)
- Children under 15 33.1% (2014)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.7 (2015)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.6 (2014)
Health
- Life expectancy 73.6 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 12.7 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 67 (2023)
- Health spending per person $309 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 84% (2024)
- Overweight adults 72.8% (2022)
- Stunted children 17.7% (2014)
- Overweight children 3.4% (2014)
- Homes with piped water 87.3% (2014)
- Homes with a flush toilet 64.2% (2014)
Education
- Years of schooling 8.8 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.0 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 83.6% (2023)
- Education spending 4.6% (2022)
- Teens in school 74.9% (2014)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 1.91 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 796,027 (2024)
- Forest cover 54.5% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 14.4 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 26.6% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.0 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 601 (2007)
- Access to electricity 99.6% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 87.2% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 14.0% (2015)
Technology
- Internet users 80.0% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 67.2 (2022)
- Home broadband 9.8 (2022)
- Homes with a mobile phone 99.9% (2014)
Food and farming
- Hunger 7.0% (2023)
- Cereal yield 3,857 (2023)
- Farmland 8.0% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 16.1% (2025)
Government
- Control of corruption −0.14 (2025)
- Women in parliament 12.5% (2025)
- Military spending 0.9% (2024)
- Clean government 57.4 (2022)