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Topic 02 of 18 · Country Index 2026
What does an economy do for the people inside it?
Antigua and Barbuda is placed 72nd of 176 countries on economy & innovation in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: GDP per Capita (PPP) 30,620 (2025); Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit 33.01 (2025).
Economy & Innovation
72nd
of 176 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
01The evidence
Only these place Antigua and Barbuda on economy & innovation — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Output per person: the standard measure of an economy's size set against the population it has to support.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
30,620
GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)
Higher is better
Antigua and Barbuda: 30,620. Across the 185 countries in this edition, values run from 1,067 (Burundi) to 139,593 (Singapore); the world median is 17,265.
Each grey tick is one of 185 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 4
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Whether businesses can borrow from the formal financial system — the firm-level counterpart to adults holding a bank account.
Latest reading per country, 2016–2025 · Antigua and Barbuda’s is from 2025 · CC BY 4.0
33.01
Firms with a bank loan or line of credit (%)
Higher is better
Antigua and Barbuda: 33.01. Across the 179 countries at their latest reading, values run from 2.113 (Pakistan) to 88.52 (Israel); the world median is 35.95.
Each grey tick is one of 179 countries at its latest reading, 2016–2025.
Key 3 of 4
Growth Lab at Harvard University
Why it is a key: What an economy knows how to make, read from the diversity and rarity of what it exports.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC0 1.0
No reading
ECI score (standardised, roughly −3 to +3)
Higher is better
Growth Lab at Harvard University publishes no 2024 figure for Antigua and Barbuda, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 145 countries in this edition, values run from -3.53 (Chad) to 1.729 (Japan); the world median is 0.131.
Each grey tick is one of 145 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 4 of 4
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Whether ordinary adults are inside the financial system at all, which output per person does not reveal.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
No reading
Adults with an account (% of population aged 15+)
Higher is better
World Bank Group publishes no 2024 figure for Antigua and Barbuda, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 139 countries in this edition, values run from 14.83 (Niger) to 99.85 (Iceland); the world median is 72.83.
Each grey tick is one of 139 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP) · higher is better
Antigua and BarbudaWorld median
Antigua and Barbuda rose from 25,548 in 2000 to 30,620 in 2025; the world median went from 10,589 to 17,265.
| Year | Antigua and Barbuda | World median |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30,620 | 17,265 |
| 2024 | 29,299 | 18,108 |
| 2023 | 28,712 | 17,686 |
| 2022 | 27,786 | 16,933 |
| 2021 | 25,745 | 16,260 |
| 2020 | 23,931 | 15,631 |
| 2019 | 29,652 | 16,761 |
| 2018 | 28,879 | 16,349 |
| 2017 | 27,199 | 16,129 |
| 2016 | 26,628 | 15,512 |
| 2015 | 25,734 | 14,857 |
| 2014 | 25,558 | 14,475 |
| 2013 | 25,207 | 14,681 |
| 2012 | 25,593 | 14,631 |
| 2011 | 25,024 | 13,916 |
| 2010 | 25,827 | 14,101 |
| 2009 | 28,406 | 13,655 |
| 2008 | 32,756 | 14,030 |
| 2007 | 33,245 | 13,755 |
| 2006 | 30,827 | 12,983 |
| 2005 | 27,693 | 12,023 |
| 2004 | 26,304 | 11,608 |
| 2003 | 25,136 | 11,183 |
| 2002 | 23,958 | 11,144 |
| 2001 | 24,015 | 10,907 |
| 2000 | 25,548 | 10,589 |
03In context
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 176 countries on economy & innovation, never a place within the region.
Antigua and Barbuda has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. The standing is each country’s place among all 176 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | GDP per Capita (PPP)GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP) | Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of CreditFirms with a bank loan or line of credit (%) | Economic Complexity IndexECI score (standardised, roughly −3 to +3) | Account Ownership at a Financial InstitutionAdults with an account (% of population aged 15+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34th | 24,503 | 57.57 | — | — | |
| 67th | 24,543 | 53.55 | 0.034 | 64.78 | |
| 72nd | 30,620 | 33.01 | — | — | |
| =77th | 18,241 | 39.29 | — | — | |
| =80th | 31,722 | 28.63 | 0.056 | 74.59 | |
| 85th | 19,483 | 35.66 | — | — | |
| 93rd | 11,358 | 47.74 | -0.351 | — | |
| 96th | 22,127 | 26.93 | — | — | |
| =151st | 2,678 | — | -0.558 | — | |
| not placed | — | — | — | — | |
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| not placed | — | 34.24 | — | — | |
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| not placed | — | — | -1.048 | — | |
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| not placed | 19,409 | 32.81 | — | — | |
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| not placed | 44,603 | — | — | — | |
| not placed | 31,428 | 49.32 | — | — | |
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| not placed | 48,273 | — | — | — | |
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“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 176.
The countries immediately above and below Antigua and Barbuda in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
16 more statistics filed under economy & innovation, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Statistics on which Antigua and Barbuda does better than the middle country measured.
Antigua and Barbuda: 5.24 · world median 0.975 · ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 61.45; higher is better.
Position 27th of 119 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 4.998 · world median 3.396 · GDP growth (annual %). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -5.847 to 19.34; higher is better.
Position 46th of 186 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 0.62 · world median -0.093 · Regulatory Quality (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.106 to 2.113; higher is better.
Position 52nd of 209 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 111.88 · world median 107.06 · Livestock production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 35.52 to 190.08; higher is better.
Position 79th of 194 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Statistics on which Antigua and Barbuda does worse than the middle country measured.
Antigua and Barbuda: 25.49 · world median 56.21 · LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2026 edition, data for 2026.
Published values in that edition run from 4.13 to 1,319; higher is better.
Ranked 127th of 175 by UNCTAD.
Antigua and Barbuda: 25.04 · world median 40.19 · AI readiness score (0–100). Oxford Insights, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 12.12 to 88.36; higher is better.
Ranked 147th of 195 by Oxford Insights.
Antigua and Barbuda: 7.61 · world median 25.42 · Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.377 to 87.15; higher is better.
Position 137th of 170 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 89.95 · world median 106.08 · Food production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 71.08 to 177.49; higher is better.
Position 172nd of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 81.72 · world median 106.23 · Crop production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 53.79 to 189.93; higher is better.
Position 180th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 2.9 · world median 2.9 · LPI score (1–5). World Bank Group, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 1.9 to 4.3; higher is better.
Ranked 66th of 139 by World Bank Group.
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Antigua and Barbuda: 13.28 · world median 1.968 · FDI inflows (% of GDP). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -32.97 to 2,221.
Antigua and Barbuda: 18.17 · world median 24.65 · Industry, including construction, value added (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 2.228 to 75.09.
Position 124th of 158 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 1.486 · world median 6.572 · Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.025 to 47.59.
Position 138th of 158 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 0 · world median 1.708 · Natural resources rents (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2021 edition, data for 2021.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 61.03.
Position 180th of 180 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 2.437 · world median 11.26 · Manufacturing value added (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0.481 to 43.97.
Position 128th of 132 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Antigua and Barbuda: 28,000 · world median 1,827,788 · Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 17,263 to 299,703,800.
Position 101st of 103 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No current reading for Antigua and Barbuda
Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Adjusted Net Savings, Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Debt Service on External Debt, Economic Complexity Index, Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) (last 2022), External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), General Government Consumption, Gini Index, Global Innovation Index, GNI per Capita (PPP) (last 2021), Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), Gross Savings (% of GDP), Household Consumption, ICT Services Exports, Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) (last 2022), Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, Palma Ratio, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products (last 2021), Trade (% of GDP) (last 2022) and World Energy Trilemma Index. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Economy & Innovation is Antigua and Barbuda’s 6th best-placed topic of 12. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
No standing on Work & Labour, Education & Knowledge, Peace & Security, Poverty & Inequality: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
The three countries placed highest of 176, and the leaders Antigua and Barbuda can most readily be measured against.
1Austria
Western Europe
1st of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0, greyscale
2Japan
Eastern Asia
2nd of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: JurriaanH · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Germany
Western Europe
3rd of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Highest in Americas
Highest in Caribbean
This page
Positions out of 176 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis

On economy & innovation
The world’s ten largest high-technology exporters as a treemap, with the rest of the world beside them. Each country’s figure is its own most recent year, between 2022 and 2024.

On economy & innovation
India and Pakistan on six published measures: hunger, happiness, human development, rule of law, literacy and GDP per capita. India is the better placed on five of them; Pakistan on one.

On economy & innovation
Thirteen Asian countries by gross average monthly wage, each carrying its WORLD rank rather than an Asian one — so the numbers skip, from 11th place to 45th.
08Questions
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
Antigua and Barbuda is placed 72nd of 176 countries on Economy & Innovation in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (GDP per Capita (PPP) and Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
30,620 in 2025 (gDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 17,265.
33.01 in 2025 (firms with a bank loan or line of credit (%)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 35.95.
GDP per Capita (PPP) rose from 25,548 in 2000 to 30,620 in 2025.
No current reading is published for Antigua and Barbuda on Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Adjusted Net Savings, Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Debt Service on External Debt, Economic Complexity Index, Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), General Government Consumption, Gini Index, Global Innovation Index, GNI per Capita (PPP), Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), Gross Savings (% of GDP), Household Consumption, ICT Services Exports, Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, Palma Ratio, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All Products, Trade (% of GDP) and World Energy Trilemma Index. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
10Method
What this topic does not measure
The total size of an economy is deliberately left out: a very large economy spread over a very large population is not doing more for each person. Growth rates, trade shares and the structure of output (how much is farming, industry or services) are published here as context, because they describe an economy's shape rather than how well it serves people. Jobs and wages have their own topic, Work & Labour.
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
The other 16 statistics on this page come from 4 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antigua and Barbuda’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
Nations Inquiry (2026). Antigua and Barbuda: Economy & Innovation — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/antigua-and-barbuda/economy