Latin America & Caribbean · High income
Cayman Islands: the economy in numbers
Per person: $104,293, or $92,201 at purchasing power parity. Population: 75,844 (2025).
GDP in 2024, current US dollars: #159 of 204 economies.
GDP
Adjusted for US inflation, in 2025 dollars: $6.71 billion in 2006, $7.98 billion in 2024.
GDP per capita
In 2025 dollars: $139,193 per person in 2006, $107,128 in 2024.
Real GDP growth
Average over 2015–2024: 3.2% a year. Years of falling GDP since 2007: 4 of 18.
Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
Inflation
Consumer prices rose by 3.2% from 2009 to 2016. Highest annual inflation: 2.2% in 2013.
Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
Stock market capitalization, % of GDP
In 2020 listed domestic companies were worth $644 million, or 11.4% of GDP.
Population
1960: 8,428 · 2025: 75,844.
Life expectancy at birth
1960: 58.8 years · 2024: 80.5 years.
Exports of goods and services
2017: 74.0% · 2020: 59.6%.
Data by year
Show the year-by-year table
| Year | GDP | GDP per capita | Per capita, PPP | Real growth | Inflation | Population | Stock market, % GDP | Life expectancy | Exports, % GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 75.8K | ||||||||
| 2024 | $7.77B | $104,293 | $92,201 | 3.8% | 74.5K | 80.5 | |||
| 2023 | $7.31B | $100,065 | $88,395 | 5.8% | 73K | 80.4 | |||
| 2022 | $6.65B | $92,938 | $82,193 | 5.7% | 71.6K | 80.0 | |||
| 2021 | $6.06B | $86,450 | $74,160 | 4.9% | 70.1K | 79.3 | |||
| 2020 | $5.66B | $82,339 | $66,119 | −5.0% | 68.7K | 11.4% | 79.2 | 59.6% | |
| 2019 | $5.94B | $88,254 | $72,697 | 3.9% | 67.3K | 6.4% | 79.1 | 69.5% | |
| 2018 | $5.53B | $83,866 | $71,812 | 4.3% | 65.9K | 7.9% | 78.8 | 71.6% | |
| 2017 | $5.17B | $80,054 | $68,018 | 3.2% | 64.5K | 78.6 | 74.0% | ||
| 2016 | $4.91B | $77,802 | $65,680 | 3.2% | −0.6% | 63.1K | 78.4 | ||
| 2015 | $4.71B | $76,379 | $64,009 | 2.8% | −2.3% | 61.6K | 6.7% | 78.1 | |
| 2014 | $4.56B | $75,845 | $63,561 | 2.7% | 1.3% | 60.2K | 77.9 | ||
| 2013 | $4.41B | $75,114 | $63,648 | 1.3% | 2.2% | 58.7K | 77.7 | ||
| 2012 | $4.29B | $75,102 | $64,727 | 1.2% | 1.2% | 57.1K | 46.8% | 77.1 | |
| 2011 | $4.19B | $75,281 | $66,629 | 1.2% | 1.3% | 55.6K | 54.4% | 76.6 | |
| 2010 | $4.16B | $76,838 | $66,325 | −2.7% | 0.3% | 54.1K | 5.7% | 76.1 | |
| 2009 | $4.28B | $81,374 | $69,254 | −7.2% | 52.6K | 3.9% | 75.7 | ||
| 2008 | $4.59B | $89,655 | $76,297 | −0.4% | 51.2K | 3.5% | 75.4 | ||
| 2007 | $4.47B | $89,888 | $77,337 | 3.2% | 49.7K | 3.7% | 75.2 | ||
| 2006 | $4.2B | $87,085 | $75,191 | 48.2K | 3.8% | 75.0 | |||
| 2005 | 46.8K | 74.9 | |||||||
| 2004 | 45.4K | 74.6 | |||||||
| 2003 | 43.9K | 74.6 | |||||||
| 2002 | 42.5K | 74.6 | |||||||
| 2001 | 41.1K | 74.5 | |||||||
| 2000 | 39.7K | 74.4 | |||||||
| 1999 | 38.3K | 74.2 | |||||||
| 1998 | 36.9K | 74.1 | |||||||
| 1997 | 35.5K | 73.9 | |||||||
| 1996 | 34.1K | 73.7 | |||||||
| 1995 | 32.7K | 73.6 | |||||||
| 1994 | 31.4K | 73.4 | |||||||
| 1993 | 30K | 73.2 | |||||||
| 1992 | 28.6K | 73.1 | |||||||
| 1991 | 27.3K | 72.9 | |||||||
| 1990 | 26K | 72.7 | |||||||
| 1989 | 24.9K | 72.5 | |||||||
| 1988 | 24K | 72.4 | |||||||
| 1987 | 23.1K | 72.1 | |||||||
| 1986 | 22.2K | 71.9 | |||||||
| 1985 | 21.3K | 71.6 | |||||||
| 1984 | 20.5K | 71.2 | |||||||
| 1983 | 19.6K | 70.8 | |||||||
| 1982 | 18.8K | 70.4 | |||||||
| 1981 | 17.9K | 70.0 | |||||||
| 1980 | 17.1K | 69.5 | |||||||
| 1979 | 16.4K | 69.0 | |||||||
| 1978 | 15.7K | 68.5 | |||||||
| 1977 | 15.1K | 68.1 | |||||||
| 1976 | 14.5K | 67.5 | |||||||
| 1975 | 13.8K | 67.0 | |||||||
| 1974 | 13.1K | 66.5 | |||||||
| 1973 | 12.4K | 65.9 | |||||||
| 1972 | 11.8K | 65.4 | |||||||
| 1971 | 11.1K | 64.8 | |||||||
| 1970 | 10.5K | 64.4 | |||||||
| 1969 | 10.2K | 64.0 | |||||||
| 1968 | 9.97K | 63.6 | |||||||
| 1967 | 9.77K | 63.2 | |||||||
| 1966 | 9.56K | 62.8 | |||||||
| 1965 | 9.36K | 62.2 | |||||||
| 1964 | 9.17K | 61.4 | |||||||
| 1963 | 8.97K | 60.8 | |||||||
| 1962 | 8.78K | 60.1 | |||||||
| 1961 | 8.6K | 59.4 | |||||||
| 1960 | 8.43K | 58.8 |
e: IMF estimate; f: IMF forecast.
Nearby economies in Latin America & Caribbean
Nearest by distance between capitals, with GDP per capita.
Antigua and Barbuda · Argentina · Aruba · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Bolivia · Brazil · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Chile · Colombia · Costa Rica · Cuba · Curaçao · Dominica · Dominican Republic · Ecuador · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama · Paraguay · Peru · Puerto Rico · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Martin (French part) · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Sint Maarten · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago · Turks and Caicos Islands · U.S. Virgin Islands · Uruguay · Venezuela
Rankings
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Data and methods
- GDP: gross domestic product in current US dollars, converted from the local currency at market exchange rates (World Bank); not adjusted for inflation.
- Purchasing power parity (PPP): GDP per person in international dollars, which buy the same basket of goods and services in every country. It compares living standards across countries in the same year; it is not adjusted for inflation over time.
- In 2025 dollars: the charts can remove US inflation (US consumer price index, annual average) so that dollar amounts from different years compare in today's money. Exchange rate swings still show.
- Growth and inflation: World Bank data (calendar years). Years the World Bank does not cover yet, and the estimates and forecasts, come from the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026): its forecasts start in 2026, and the years after a country's last actual year are IMF estimates.
- Government debt: gross debt of the general government (central, state and local government and social security funds) as a percentage of GDP, IMF. The World Bank's central government debt is narrower and covers fewer countries.
- Stock market capitalization: the end-of-year value of domestic companies listed on the country's exchanges (World Federation of Exchanges via the World Bank; before 2016, Standard & Poor's), as a percentage of GDP: the “Buffett indicator”. Investment funds are excluded, and so are companies listed only abroad; companies from elsewhere that list on an exchange count for its country (Hong Kong lists many mainland Chinese companies).
- Unemployment: ILO modeled estimates (share of the labor force); comparable across countries, but they may differ from national figures.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)