Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Antigua and Barbuda instead of Aruba, you would:

Economy

make 30.5% less money

Aruba has a GDP per capita of $41,300 as of 2022, while in Antigua and Barbuda, the GDP per capita is $28,700 as of 2023.

be 42.9% more likely to be unemployed

In Aruba, 7.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2016. In Antigua and Barbuda, that number is 11.0% as of 2014.

Life

have 28.4% more children

In Aruba, there are approximately 11.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Antigua and Barbuda, there are 14.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

be 18.3% more likely to die during infancy

In Aruba, approximately 12.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Antigua and Barbuda, on the other hand, 14.3 children do as of 2022.

Expenditures

spend 38.7% less on education

Aruba spends 6.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2016. Antigua and Barbuda spends 3.8% of total GDP on education as of 2021.

Geography

see 2.2 times more coastline

Aruba has a total of 68 km of coastline. In Antigua and Barbuda, that number is 153 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Antigua and Barbuda: At a glance

Antigua and Barbuda is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 442 sq km. The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when COLUMBUS landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early Spanish and French settlements were succeeded by an English colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.
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