Evolution of Total Population , 1800-2000

Evolution of Life Expectancy at Birth (Total), 1911-2009

Evolution of Average Years of Education, 1860-2010

Evolution of Labourers Real Wage, 1850-2006

Evolution of Educational Inequality Gini Coefficient, 1870-2010

Evolution of Cattle per Capita, 1600-2010

Raking and performance of all available indicators for the entire period covered by the data (download all indicators)

Period Best performing Worst performing Best ranking Worst ranking
1820-1869 22 Total Pasture Sheep per Capita Biodiversity -
naturalness
Total Population
1870-1919 29 Average Years
of Education
Composite Measure
of Wellbeing
Biodiversity -
naturalness
Total Cropland
Total Num. of Goats
1920-1959 30 Bauxite Production Composite Measure
of Wellbeing
Bauxite Production Total Population
1960-2010 52 Gold Production Total CO2 Emissions Openness of Executive
Recruitment (XROPEN)
Total Population
Overall     56 N/A N/A Biodiversity -
naturalness
Total Cropland
         

Evolution of Cropland per Capita, 1500-2010

Evolution of Goats per Capita, 1600-2010

Evolution of Biodiversity - naturalness, 1500-2010

Evolution of Aluminium Production, 1850-2012

Evolution of Bauxite Production, 1880-2012

Caribbean

Anguilla[No Data]

Antigua and Barbuda1500 (5)-2013 (21)

Aruba[No Data]

Bahamas1500 (5)-2013 (23)

Barbados1500 (5)-2016 (28)

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba[No Data]

British Virgin Islands[No Data]

Cayman Islands[No Data]

Cuba1500 (8)-2016 (35)

Curaçao[No Data]

Dominica1500 (5)-2016 (21)

Dominican Republic1500 (6)-2018 (38)

Grenada1500 (5)-2013 (21)

Guadeloupe[No Data]

Haiti1500 (6)-2018 (36)

Jamaica1500 (6)-2018 (35)

Martinique[No Data]

Montserrat[No Data]

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