Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Dominica instead of Aruba, you would:

Economy

make 61.5% less money

Aruba has a GDP per capita of $41,300 as of 2022, while in Dominica, the GDP per capita is $15,900 as of 2023.

be 3.0 times more likely to be unemployed

In Aruba, 7.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2016. In Dominica, that number is 23.0% as of 2000.

Life

have 14.7% more children

In Aruba, there are approximately 11.6 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Dominica, there are 13.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 16.5% less likely to have internet access

In Aruba, approximately 97.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Dominica, about 81.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 11.3% less on education

Aruba spends 6.2% of its total GDP on education as of 2016. Dominica spends 5.5% 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 Dominica, that number is 148 km.

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

Dominica: At a glance

Dominica is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 751 sq km. Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after independence, Dominica's fortunes improved when a corrupt and tyrannical administration was replaced by that of Mary Eugenia CHARLES, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean, who remained in office for 15 years. Some 3,000 Carib Indians still living on Dominica are the only pre-Columbian population remaining in the eastern Caribbean.
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