Latin America & Caribbean · High income
Curaçao: the economy in numbers
Per person: $22,833, or $32,741 at purchasing power parity. Population: 156,263 (2025).
GDP in 2024, current US dollars: #173 of 204 economies.
GDP
Adjusted for US inflation, in 2025 dollars: $3.97 billion in 2000, $3.66 billion in 2024.
GDP per capita
In 2025 dollars: $29,642 per person in 2000, $23,454 in 2024.
Real GDP growth
Average over 2015–2024: −0.8% a year. Years of falling GDP since 2001: 10 of 24.
Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
Inflation
Consumer prices rose by 50.4% from 2000 to 2019. Highest annual inflation: 6.9% in 2008.
Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook (October 2026)
Population
1960: 124,826 · 2025: 156,263.
Life expectancy at birth
1960: 65.4 years · 2024: 77.0 years.
Exports of goods and services
2005: 59.5% · 2018: 63.2%.
Data by year
Show the year-by-year table
| Year | GDP | GDP per capita | Per capita, PPP | Real growth | Inflation | Population | Life expectancy | Exports, % GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156K | |||||||
| 2024 | $3.56B | $22,833 | $32,741 | 5.0% | 156K | 77.0 | ||
| 2023 | $3.28B | $21,218 | $30,677 | 4.2% | 155K | 76.8 | ||
| 2022 | $3.08B | $20,057 | $28,636 | 6.9% | 153K | 76.7 | ||
| 2021 | $2.74B | $17,796 | $24,906 | 4.2% | 154K | 75.7 | ||
| 2020 | $2.53B | $16,300 | $21,722 | −18.4% | 155K | 76.5 | ||
| 2019 | $3.03B | $19,221 | $25,397 | −3.2% | 2.6% | 157K | 76.5 | |
| 2018 | $3.05B | $19,119 | $24,623 | −2.1% | 2.6% | 159K | 76.5 | 63.2% |
| 2017 | $3.03B | $18,938 | $24,322 | −1.3% | 1.6% | 160K | 76.4 | 59.6% |
| 2016 | $3.02B | $18,944 | $23,650 | −1.1% | −0.0% | 160K | 76.3 | 63.0% |
| 2015 | $3.06B | $19,362 | $24,038 | 0.5% | −0.5% | 158K | 76.5 | 68.5% |
| 2014 | $3.06B | $19,623 | $24,348 | −0.6% | 1.5% | 156K | 76.4 | 75.9% |
| 2013 | $3.03B | $19,721 | $24,822 | −0.6% | 1.3% | 154K | 76.2 | 74.3% |
| 2012 | $3.01B | $19,810 | $25,106 | −0.3% | 3.2% | 152K | 76.0 | 80.8% |
| 2011 | $2.93B | $19,426 | $26,251 | 0.5% | 2.3% | 151K | 75.6 | 73.0% |
| 2010 | $2.95B | $19,847 | $25,957 | 0.1% | 2.8% | 149K | 75.1 | 55.5% |
| 2009 | $2.87B | $19,540 | $25,950 | −0.5% | 1.8% | 147K | 74.5 | 60.7% |
| 2008 | $2.83B | $19,423 | $26,098 | 2.2% | 6.9% | 146K | 74.3 | 69.5% |
| 2007 | $2.59B | $18,006 | $25,374 | 2.5% | 3.0% | 144K | 74.1 | 60.9% |
| 2006 | $2.46B | $17,400 | $24,590 | 1.6% | 3.1% | 141K | 74.0 | 63.4% |
| 2005 | $2.34B | $17,032 | $24,081 | 0.7% | 4.1% | 138K | 73.9 | 59.5% |
| 2004 | $2.24B | $16,671 | $23,791 | 0.2% | 1.4% | 134K | 73.7 | |
| 2003 | $2.2B | $16,696 | $23,522 | 0.3% | 1.6% | 132K | 73.6 | |
| 2002 | $2.16B | $16,724 | $23,480 | 0.4% | 0.4% | 129K | 73.5 | |
| 2001 | $2.14B | $16,610 | $23,057 | −0.7% | 1.8% | 129K | 73.4 | |
| 2000 | $2.12B | $15,841 | $21,891 | 134K | 73.3 | |||
| 1999 | 139K | 73.2 | ||||||
| 1998 | 144K | 73.1 | ||||||
| 1997 | 147K | 73.0 | ||||||
| 1996 | 146K | 72.9 | ||||||
| 1995 | 145K | 72.8 | ||||||
| 1994 | 145K | 72.8 | ||||||
| 1993 | 144K | 72.7 | ||||||
| 1992 | 144K | 72.7 | ||||||
| 1991 | 144K | 72.5 | ||||||
| 1990 | 145K | 72.4 | ||||||
| 1989 | 147K | 72.2 | ||||||
| 1988 | 149K | 72.2 | ||||||
| 1987 | 151K | 72.1 | ||||||
| 1986 | 153K | 72.0 | ||||||
| 1985 | 153K | 71.9 | ||||||
| 1984 | 152K | 71.7 | ||||||
| 1983 | 151K | 71.5 | ||||||
| 1982 | 150K | 71.4 | ||||||
| 1981 | 149K | 71.2 | ||||||
| 1980 | 148K | 71.0 | ||||||
| 1979 | 148K | 70.7 | ||||||
| 1978 | 148K | 70.4 | ||||||
| 1977 | 149K | 70.2 | ||||||
| 1976 | 149K | 70.0 | ||||||
| 1975 | 149K | 69.7 | ||||||
| 1974 | 148K | 69.4 | ||||||
| 1973 | 147K | 69.1 | ||||||
| 1972 | 148K | 68.8 | ||||||
| 1971 | 147K | 68.5 | ||||||
| 1970 | 145K | 68.2 | ||||||
| 1969 | 143K | 67.9 | ||||||
| 1968 | 140K | 67.7 | ||||||
| 1967 | 138K | 67.4 | ||||||
| 1966 | 137K | 67.1 | ||||||
| 1965 | 135K | 66.9 | ||||||
| 1964 | 133K | 66.6 | ||||||
| 1963 | 131K | 66.3 | ||||||
| 1962 | 128K | 66.0 | ||||||
| 1961 | 126K | 65.7 | ||||||
| 1960 | 125K | 65.4 |
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)