Global news and insight for corporate financial professionals
Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Antigua and Barbuda economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of the country best banks and safest banks are also available.
ANNUAL SURVEY — THE PIONEERS By Adam Rombel In the first of a two-part series, Global Finance identifies the top online corporate and consumer banks by country and regionally by product or service category. Global Finance is ...
USD 0.33 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 9.3% | 0% | -12.1% | -7.2% | -2.1% | 3.5% | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | ||
| 4.7% | 4% | 4.8% | 3.6% | 5.3% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.002% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 1% | -0.5% | 2.4% | 1.2% | 1.6% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 100.3% | 87.6% | 90.6% | 89.5% | 90% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -2.6% | -0.1% | -1.5% | -4.2% | -4.2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-7.0% (2018 estimate)
41.6% (2016)
0.0004% (2018)
0.02% (2018)
Petroleum products, bedding, handicrafts, electronic components, transport equipment, food and live animals
Food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil
Poland 62.2%, Cameroon 9.5%, US 5.1%, UK 4.5% (2017)
US 48%, Spain 4.2% (2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 81 million | USD 113 million | USD 116 million |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 12.0 million | USD 13.3 million | USD 8.6 million |
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
(for a monthly update on M&A; click here )
N/A
(for a monthly update on M&A; click here )
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
113 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 130 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 117 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 50 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 124 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 165 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 79 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 145 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 112 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 36 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 132 out of 190 countries
Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Protestant 68.3% (Anglican 17.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.4%, Pentecostal 12.2%, Moravian 8.3%, Methodist 5.6%, Wesleyan Holiness 4.5%, Church of God 4.1%, Baptist 3.6%), Roman Catholic 8.2%, other 12.2%, unspecified 5.5%, none 5.9% (2011 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
| 0.06 million | 0.08 million | 0.09 million | 0.09 million | 0.09 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
| 39.7% | 34.6% | 32.1% | 24.6% |
Total population: 99%
Male: 98.4%
Female: 99.4%
Definition: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling (2012 est.)
Free
Political Rights: 2
Civil Liberties: 2 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 25.2%
Mobile: 192.8%
(2017)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)