Belize's GDP per capita (annual % growth) was 1.33% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.7 percentage points from 0.62% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.33% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | -14.63% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 0.62% | 2015 |
| Highest | 16.64% | 2021 |
| Lowest | -14.63% | 2020 |
| Average since 2016 | 0.64% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 2.3% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Belize's GDP per capita (annual % growth) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.02% to 1.33%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 31.26 percentage points in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 17.37 percentage points in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 7% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Belize had the 123rd highest value of the 186 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Belize | 1.33% | 2025 |
| World | 1.99% | 2025 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 1.65% | 2025 |
| Upper middle income | 3.85% | 2025 |
Closest to Belize in the 2025 ranking
- United States — 119th of 186: 1.63%
- Colombia — 120th of 186: 1.61%
- Naoero — 121st of 186: 1.48%
- Dominican Republic — 123rd of 186: 1.29%
- Sweden — 124th of 186: 1.29%
- Netherlands — 125th of 186: 1.25%
What this measures
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 65 values
| Year | GDP per capita (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.33 |
| 2024 | 2.02 |
| 2023 | -1.55 |
| 2022 | 7.25 |
| 2021 | 16.64 |
| 2020 | -14.63 |
| 2019 | 2.74 |
| 2018 | -1.04 |
| 2017 | -4.07 |
| 2016 | -2.31 |
| 2015 |
GDP per capita (annual % growth) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 4.51% (2025)
- Argentina — 4.01% (2025)
- Aruba — 6.18% (2024)
- Bahamas, The — 2.9% (2024)
- Barbados — 2.64% (2025)
- Bolivia — -2.9% (2025)
- Brazil — 1.89% (2025)
- Cayman Islands — 1.78% (2024)
- Chile — 1.97% (2025)
- Colombia — 1.61% (2025)
- Costa Rica — 4.09% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Belize
- GDP (current US$) — US$3.33 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 6.65 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$2.7 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 5.4 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$7,865 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 15,731 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$6,374 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 12,772 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$3.16 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 6.32 billion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 14,953 (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Belize's GDP per capita (annual % growth)?
- 1.33% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is down 0.97 percentage points from 2.3% in 1961. The highest value was 16.64% in 2021 and the lowest -14.63% in 2020.
- How does Belize rank?
- 123rd highest of 186 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in GDP per capita (annual % growth) unusual for Belize?
- In 2025, Belize's GDP per capita (annual % growth) fell 0.7 percentage points on 2024 (from 2.02% to 1.33%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 7.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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