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Key facts
- Currency: Belize dollar
- Capital city: Belmopan
- Region: Central America
- Continent: Americas
- Land area: 22,810 km²
- Population: 405,272
- Political Leader: Dean Barrow (Prime Minister)
Latest news (see all)
Former landlord killed Italian-Dutch woman and young girl in Belize; Fundraiser started
Read: NL Times
2024-03-19
Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen review - from Belize to the Proms
Read: The Guardian
2023-12-22
Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 61.41 % of GDP |
| Expense | 22.34 % of GDP |
| GDP | 2,830,510,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 6.28 annual % |
| Self-employed | 32.63 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 21.34 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 8.22 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 25.39 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 1,820.00 km² |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 687.60 kt |
| Fertility rate | 2.01 births per woman |
| Forest area | 12,658 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 0.00 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | -344.11 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 21.60 years |
| Methane emissions | 514.04 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 205.41 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 201,525 |
| Male Population | 203,747 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 31.35 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 21,708.40 km² |
| Rural population | 217,242 |
| Urban land area | 122.90 km² |
| Urban population | 188,030 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 28.47 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 17.98 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 6.35 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 277.99 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 6.92 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.42 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.04 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 70 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 7.10 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 97.69 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 61.99 % of population |
| Net migration | 600 |
| Press freedom | 2.84 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 2,000 |
| Democracy score | 0.00 |
| Democracy type | Unknown |
| Military expenditure | 0.86 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 12.50 % |
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Coordinates: [17°25′N, -88°75′S]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
