Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Belize instead of Montserrat, you would:

Economy

make 62.4% less money

Montserrat has a GDP per capita of $34,000 as of 2011, while in Belize, the GDP per capita is $12,800 as of 2023.

be 47.5% more likely to be unemployed

In Montserrat, 5.6% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Belize, that number is 8.3% as of 2023.

Life

have 48.7% more children

In Montserrat, there are approximately 11.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Belize, there are 17.7 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

Basic Needs

be 10.3% more likely to have internet access

In Montserrat, approximately 56.2% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Belize, about 62.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 61.1% more on education

Montserrat spends 5.4% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Belize spends 8.7% of total GDP on education as of 2021.

Geography

see 9.7 times more coastline

Montserrat has a total of 40 km of coastline. In Belize, that number is 386 km.

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

Belize: At a glance

Belize is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 22,806 sq km. Belize was the site of several Mayan city states until their decline at the end of the first millennium A.D. The British and Spanish disputed the region in the 17th and 18th centuries; it formally became the colony of British Honduras in 1854. Territorial disputes between the UK and Guatemala delayed the independence of Belize until 1981. Guatemala refused to recognize the new nation until 1992 and the two countries are involved in an ongoing border dispute. Tourism has become the mainstay of the economy. Current concerns include the country's heavy foreign debt burden, high unemployment, growing involvement in the Mexican and South American drug trade, high crime rates, and one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in Central America.
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