International Rankings of Dominica 2022, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Dominica, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Dominica, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	31	22.00	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	163	16000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	37	70.00 %	2019
Internet users - total	183	50266	2019
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	54	1.00	2020
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	186	1000	2020
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	69	106.00	2020
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	185	76000	2020
Economy
Budget - expenditures	193	260.400 million US Dollars	2017
Budget - revenues	195	227.800 million US Dollars	2017
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	78	5.90 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	74	70.000 million US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	180	280.400 million US Dollars	2017
Exports	191	160.000 million US Dollars	2018
GDP (official exchange rate)	199	557.000 million US Dollars	2017
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	45	54.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	17	26.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	104	60.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	131	62.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	76	21.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	35	22.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	142	12.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	70	65.10 % of GDP	2017
Imports	189	430.000 million US Dollars	2018
Industrial production growth rate	105	13.00 %	2017
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	79	0.60 %	2017
Labor force	193	25000 US Dollars	2000
Labor force - by occupation - agriculture	41	40 %	N/A
Labor force - by occupation - industry	14	32 %	N/A
Labor force - by occupation - services	134	28 %	2002
Population below poverty line	56	29 %	2009
Public debt	32	82.70 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	196	710.000 million US Dollars	2020
Real GDP growth rate	137	4.70 %	2017
Real GDP per capita	112	9900 US Dollars	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	165	212.300 million US Dollars	2017
Taxes and other revenues	32	40.90 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	21	23.00 %	2000
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	188	182000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	189	182000	2019
Electricity - consumption	188	82.078 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	184	42000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	184	8.100 million kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	61	74.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	71	24.50 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	65	0.10 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - wind	64	0.60 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	106	37.513 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	178	1200 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	185	1237 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	105	18 micrograms per cubic meter	2016
Land use - agricultural land	101	35	2018
Land use - arable land	100	8	2018
Land use - forest	27	59	2018
Land use - other	159	6	2018
Land use - permanent crops	6	24	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	137	3	2018
Total renewable water resources	161	200.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	161	1.000 million cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - municipal	153	19.000 million cubic meters	2017
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	118	0.84	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	58	72	2023
Geography
Area - land	175	751 sq km	N/A
Area - total	176	751 sq km	N/A
Coastline	129	148 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	105	1447 meters	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	101	35	2018
Land use - arable land	100	8	2018
Land use - forest	27	59	2018
Land use - other	159	6	2018
Land use - permanent crops	6	24	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	137	3	2018
Population Density	105	99.37 Persons per sq km	N/A
Population
Age structure - 15-24 years	123	13.15	N/A
Age structure - 25-54 years	53	42.79	N/A
Age structure - 55-64 years	80	10.53	N/A
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	88	2 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - spirits	12	4 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	60	6 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	119	13.91 births/1,000 population	2022
Current health expenditure	57	6 % of GDP	2019
Death rate	69	8.11 deaths/1,000 population	2022
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	78	13.20 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	85	7.60 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	148	41.20 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	124	28.00 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	35	96 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - unimproved	27	4 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	29	6 % of GDP	2021
Hospital bed density	33	3.80 beds/1,000 population	N/A
Infant mortality rate - female	138	7.07 deaths/1,000 live births	2022
Infant mortality rate - male	100	15.28 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	118	11.27 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - female	54	81 years	2022
Life expectancy at birth - male	60	75 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	57	78 years	N/A
Median age - female	66	36 years	2020
Median age - male	58	34 years	N/A
Median age - total	57	35 years	N/A
Net migration rate	156	5.31 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	27	27.90 %	2016
Physicians density	102	1.10 physicians/1,000 population	2018
Population	188	74629	2022
Population growth rate	133	0.05 %	2022
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	10	1.05 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-24 years	17	1.06	N/A
Sex ratio - 25-54 years	17	1.04	N/A
Sex ratio - 55-64 years	15	1.06	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	29	0.68 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	8	1.05 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	15	1.02 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	80	2.02 children born/woman	2022
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	118	0.84	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	58	72	2023
Transportation
Airports	118	2	2021
Airports - with paved runways - 1524 to 2437 m	43	1	N/A
Airports - with paved runways - 914 to 1523 m	42	1	2021
Airports - with paved runways - total	74	2	N/A
Merchant marine - total	85	93	N/A
Roadways - paved	125	762 km	2018
Roadways - total	132	1512 km	2018

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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