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Saint Martin places highest on Life Expectancy at Birth (top 22% worldwide).
Saint Martin in the Nations Inquiry Country Index
Saint Martin appears in 3 of the statistics tracked here, but is not placed in the Country Index: the index needs a standing on three quarters of its topics, and Saint Martin is measured on too few of them. Every published reading below is unaffected.
At a glance
Population
27,515
people
since 1950
Land area
53
km²
since 2011
Life expectancy
80.22
years at birth
since 1950
The newest published figure for each, the year it describes and who published it, with a line showing how it has moved.
01The country
About Saint Martin
Key facts about Saint Martin
- Capital
- Marigot
- Official language
- French
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- ISO code
- MAF · MF
- Domain · dialling
- .mf · +590
As Wikidata records them. Official languages are the least consistent — some countries list only a national language, others every regional one. Sources and licences.
02Country Index 2026
Where it stands, topic by topic
Strongest first. Each position is Saint Martin’s place among the countries with a standing on that topic, built from a few key statistics chosen to measure different things.
03Highs and lows
Where Saint Martin stands out
The two ends of its own record: every statistic on which Saint Martin sits within ten places of the best or worst in the world, plus its strongest and weakest readings overall. Each is turned into a percentile — its place among every country measured — which is what lets a hunger score and a press-freedom rank be compared at all.
Where Saint Martin does best2
No area reaches the world's top third. These are Saint Martin's strongest results relative to its own record.
- Life Expectancy at Birthtop 22%
Position · derived 50th of 222 · 80.22 · 2023
world median 74.63 (better)
- Access to Electricitytop 28%
Not ranked by the publisher · 100 · 2024
world median 100 · ▼ 8 pts since 2014
Where Saint Martin struggles most0
No statistic places Saint Martin near the worst end of a field, and none of its readings falls in the world's bottom third.
A band is a place among the countries each publisher scores, so Saint Martin can move because other countries moved. See the Country Index for the full method.
04In context
Saint Martin and its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place in the world ranking, not within the region.
Shares a land border with
Across Caribbean
Every country in the sub-region, by its position in the world.
- 55
Barbados - 65
Saint Lucia - 69
Dominican Republic - 72
Grenada - 76
Trinidad and Tobago - 79
Jamaica - 86
Bahamas - =110
Cuba - 168
Haiti - —
Anguillanot placed - —
Antigua and Barbudanot placed - —
Arubanot placed - —
British Virgin Islandsnot placed - —
Cayman Islandsnot placed - —
Curaçaonot placed - —
Dominicanot placed - —
Montserratnot placed - —
Puerto Riconot placed - —
Saint Kitts and Nevisnot placed - —
Saint Martinnot placed - —
Saint Vincent and the Grenadinesnot placed - —
Sint Maartennot placed - —
Turks and Caicos Islandsnot placed - —
United States Virgin Islandsnot placed
05The evidence
Every statistic we hold for Saint Martin
Grouped by topic. Each row gives the newest edition’s rank or position, the published value and the year the numbers describe — select a row for the world median, the best in the world and the trend.
Health & Wellbeing1
Life Expectancy at Birth50th of 222position · derived80.22Years a newborn would live at current death rates2023
top 22% of 222 countries measured
UN DESA Population Division · Years a newborn would live at current death rates
Saint Martin 80.22 · world median 74.63 (better)
Best in the world 86.37 (Monaco)
No real change since 2013
Development & Human Capital1
Access to Electricitytop 28%100Population with electricity access (%)2024
top 28% of 215 countries measured
World Bank Group · Population with electricity access (%)
Saint Martin 100 · world median 100
Best in the world 100 (122 countries tied)
▼ -8 percentile points since 2014
Environment & Sustainability1
Forest Area118th of 210position · derived24.8Forest area (% of land area)2023
bottom 45% of 213 countries measured · 213 share 210 positions
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) · Forest area (% of land area)
Saint Martin 24.8 · world median 31.08
Highest 94.45 (Suriname)
No real change since 2013
Not currently covered
The newest edition of these reports does not include Saint Martin. Usually the publisher does not cover it; sometimes it has dropped out of a ranking it used to appear in.
- Account Ownership at a Financial Institution
- Adjusted Net Savings
- Adult Literacy Rate
- Agricultural Emissions
- Agricultural Irrigated Land
- Agricultural Land
- Agriculture Orientation Index
- Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP)
- Arable Land per Person
- Average Weekly Hours Worked
- Births Attended by Skilled Health Staff
- Business Ready: Operational Efficiency
- Business Ready: Public Services
- Business Ready: Regulatory Framework
- Cereal Import Dependency Ratio
- Cereal Yield
- Child Marriage
- Children with Functional Difficulties
- Civic Space Ratings
- Coefficient of Human Inequality
- Completeness of Birth Registration
- Container Port Traffic
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Cost of Sending Remittances
- Country Policy and Institutional Assessment
- Crop Production Index
- Deaths in Organized Violence
- Debt Service on External Debt
- Dietary Energy Supply
- Ecological Footprint
- Economic Complexity Index
- Employment in Agriculture
- Employment in Industry
- Employment in Services
- Employment-to-Population Ratio
- Exclusive Breastfeeding Under Six Months
- Expected Years of Schooling
- Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)
- External Debt Stocks (% of GNI)
- Fatal Occupational Injuries
- Female Genital Mutilation Prevalence
- Female Labour Force Participation Rate
- Female Share of Senior and Middle Management
- Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare
- Firms with a Female Top Manager
- Food Production Index
- GDP Growth · last seen 2021
- GDP per Capita (PPP)
- GDP per Person Employed
- Gender Development Index
- Gender Inequality Index
- Gender Social Norms Index
- General Government Consumption
- Gini Index
- Global Innovation Index
- Global Militarisation Index
- Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
- Global Report on Food Crises
- Global Violent Deaths
- GNI per Capita (PPP)
- Government AI Readiness Index
- Government Effectiveness
- Government Funding per Primary Student
- Government Spending on Education
- Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP)
- Gross Savings (% of GDP)
- Household Consumption
- Human Capital Index
- Human Development Index
- ICT Goods Exports
- Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP)
- Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary
- Income Share Held by Lowest 20%
- Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP)
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- INFORM Risk Index
- INFORM Severity Index
- Informal Employment Rate
- Internal Displacements by Disaster · last seen 2017
- Labour Force Participation Rate
- Labour Income Share
- Labour Productivity per Hour Worked
- Land Under Cereal Production
- Liner Shipping Connectivity Index
- Livestock Density
- Livestock Production Index
- Logistics Performance Index
- Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP)
- Maternal Mortality Ratio
- Mean Years of Schooling
- Net Official Development Assistance Received
- Open Data Inventory
- Organic Agricultural Area
- Out-of-School Rate, Primary
- Pesticide Use per Hectare
- Physical Violence Index
- PISA Mathematics Performance
- PISA Reading Performance
- PISA Science Performance
- Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
- Political Stability and Absence of Violence
- Poverty Gap at $3.00 a Day
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $3.00 a Day
- Poverty Headcount Ratio at $8.30 a Day
- Pre-Primary Net Enrolment Rate
- Prevalence of Severe Food Insecurity
- Prevalence of Undernourishment
- Primary Completion Rate
- Prosperity Gap
- Public Sector Employment
- Public Sector Wage Bill
- Regulatory Quality
- Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per Capita
- Renewable Share of Electricity Generation
- Research and Development Spending
- Rule of Law
- School Life Expectancy
- Secondary School Enrolment
- Self-Employment Rate
- Social Institutions and Gender Index
- Social Protection Coverage
- Statistical Performance Indicators
- Stunting Prevalence in Children Under Five
- Tertiary Enrolment Ratio
- Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · last seen 2014
- Trade (% of GDP)
- Trade Union Density
- Under-Five Mortality Rate
- Unemployment Rate
- Upper Secondary Attainment
- Upper Secondary Completion Rate
- V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index
- Violent Discipline of Children
- Voice and Accountability
- Vulnerable Employment
- Water Stress
- Water Withdrawal by Sector
- Women, Business and the Law
- Working Poverty Rate
- World Energy Trilemma Index
- World Risk Index
- Youth Literacy Rate
- Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training
- Youth Unemployment Rate
06Keep reading
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07Method
Sources and how to read them
How to read this page
- The scores and ranks belong to their publishers. Nothing is adjusted, rescaled or re-ranked; each is reproduced from the edition named beside it. Where a row says position · derived, the publisher ranks nobody on that measure and the position is ours, made by ordering the published score.
- Each statistic shows its newest edition, which is not always the edition the Country Index uses: the index pins every source to one data year so its average compares like with like.
How a standing is built from percentiles, why Saint Martin can move because other countries moved, and why publishers measure between 120 and 215 countries each are set out in full in how a standing is made and what a standing cannot tell you.
Sources
- Statistics: 3 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
- Capital, languages, currency, codes: Wikidata, public domain (CC0).
- Map and land borders: Natural Earth, public domain. Borders are de facto — where administration actually changes — not claimed.
Photographs
The photograph of Saint Martin on this page comes from Wikimedia Commons and is shown in greyscale. The photographer and the licence are named beside each one.
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Saint Martin: country statistics, rankings and trends. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/saint-martin