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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	26 841	20 991	25 489^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	-0.6	-8.9	1.4^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	18 781.0	14 174.0	16 960.0^b
Economy: Agriculture^g,h (% of Gross Value Added)	1	1.1	0.9^b
Economy: Industry^h,i (% of Gross Value Added)	37.7	33	36.6^b
Economy: Services and other activity^h,j (% of GVA)	61.3	65.9	62.6^b
Employment in agriculture^k (% of employed)	3.4	3	2.9^b
Employment in industry^k (% of employed)	27.9	26.3	26.9^b
Employment in services^k (% employed)	68.6	70.7	70.1^b
Unemployment (% of labour force)	2.4	4.2	4.5^k
Labour force participation rate (female/male pop. %)	52.0 / 74.6	49.3 / 68.3	49.4 / 65.6^k
CPI: Consumer Price Index^l (2010=100)	134	144	164^f
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	89	91	91^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	10 748	5 519^k	7 911^f
International trade: imports (million current US$)	9 239	4 876	7 670^f
International trade: balance (million current US$)	1 509	643^k	241^f
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	2 057	- 1 356	1 117^f

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	0.6	0.4	0.2^a
Urban population (% of total population)	53.3	53.2^e	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	0.2^m	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	1.6	1.6	1.5^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	75.9 / 69.9	76.0 / 69.4	77.0 / 70.6^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	19.6 / 13.2	18.7 / 16.1	17.5 / 19.1^a
International migrant stock^o (000/% of total pop.)	50.0 / 3.5	78.8 / 5.3	113.5 / 7.5^f
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	0.2	26.9	41.3^f
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	19.2	16.9	15.5^a
Health: Current expenditure^k,p (% of GDP)	5.6^q	7.5	6.4^r
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	2.5	4.3	4.2^s
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	100.1 / 102.8^t	... / ...	98.7 / 99.6^b
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	... / ...	96.0 / 92.7^b
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	96.0 / 85.6	94.0 / 87.8^b
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	29.4	26.9	40.4^r
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	28.6	31^u	26.8^u

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet^k (per 100 inhabitants)	65.1	77.3	84.7^b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	0.1	0.1^v	0.1^v,s
Threatened species (number)	65	126	176^f
Forested area (% of land area)	44.9	44.5	44.3^r
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	22.9 / 16.1	15.5 / 10.5	16.9 / 11.3^r
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	1 557	1 226	1 136^r
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	558	416	440^r
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders^w (000)	440	95	226^r
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	32	32	32^f
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	0.02^t	...	...

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		Trinidad and Tobago Dollar.
d		Data refers to the urban agglomeration.
e		2019
f		2024
g		Exc. irrigation canals and landscaping care.
h		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
i		Exc. publishing activities. Inc. irrigation canals.
j		Inc. publishing activities and landscape care. Exc. repair of personal and household goods.
k		Estimate.
l		Data refer to the Retail Price Index.
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		Including refugees.
p		Data refer to fiscal years beginning 1 October.
q		Data are based on SHA2011.
r		2022
s		2021
t		2010
u		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
v		Excluding business enterprise.
w		Arrivals by air.