The Bahamas leads the region at $37,020, followed by Barbados ($25,140), St. Kitts and Nevis ($22,470), Antigua and Barbuda ($21,150), Guyana ($20,140), and Trinidad and Tobago ($19,740). All exceed the high-income threshold of $13,935.
Seven members fall into the upper-middle-income category. St. Lucia ($12,640) sits closest to the high-income threshold, while Suriname ($5,690) sits at the lower end of this group. Jamaica ($7,210) and Belize ($7,150) occupy the middle.
Haiti, at $1,760, is the region’s only lower-middle-income economy – and the only CARICOM member below $5,000.
The gap between The Bahamas and Haiti reflects the economic diversity within a regional bloc that spans tourism-driven islands, oil exporters, and one of the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nations.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (January 2026)
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So what?
The people still can’t see where the money is going, with gas prices and basic goods and services are through the roof!
When workers are still spending 60-75% of their earnings on bills and the basic cost of living, I for one so not want to read about these stupid numbers in the Caribbean.
The only place I’ve been to in the Caribbean where goods and services are affordable, is Guyana, even for me as a tourist.
The Bahamas is not even affordable for those who travel there, much less the people who clean the many hotels in that place.
And they are number one on this list..
More garbage numbers that doesn’t reflect the true nature of life in the Caribbean.
More deflection from the real issues, that’s all this is.
If we are so ‘high income’ how is it that there is still so much poverty. So many just living from hand to mouth and barely that sometimes.
When a small island state, such as ours, is put into that high income bracket it becomes more difficult for the country to access loans at a discretionary rate. Therefore, everything that Government has to borrow for to upgrade the country’s infrastructure comes at higher and higher costs which have to be passed down to its citizenry.
Our belts are so tightened that our bellies are now pressing against our backs and all our organs are being squeezed out of existence.
We, who do not have resources other than sun, sea and sand had better realize that we need to find a path to resilience, invest in our island ourselves, take a hold of what is left of our patrimony and put it to work for us.
This is pure nonsense. A few high powered persons making a lot of cash while the vast majority of the population can hardly survive from week to week or month to month, anybody can quote figures, but it doesn’t always give the true picture on the ground. Pure crap
Heheheee 😂😂😂 Now that’s so funny 🤣🤣
Mi rib 😄😄 ah hurt mi 😅😅 I need some air. Help me please…
Mercy! Me still ah laugh. Mi chest ah hu’t me! 😂 These “money-lined” politicians mus’ be talking ’bout dem selves?
Absolutely hilari-arse 🤣🤣🤣
That reminds me. I must check mi wallet again to see if what these liads are telling us is true…
with CLOTHING.
Fu real…
Numbers can be so distorted.In Antigua,those numbers do not reflect the true pictures.Less than 1% of the population are in control of 99.9 % of all financials in the Nation.I am speaking about Antigua and Barbuda.I am from there and knows that landscape.
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