| Social and Moral Index The Best Countries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Score | ||
| 1 | Bahamas | 68.2 | |
| 2 | St Vincent & Grenadines | 68.0 | |
| 3 | Jamaica | 66.7 | |
| 4 | Puerto Rico | 66.7 | |
| 5 | Barbados | 66.3 | |
| 6 | Antigua & Barbuda | 64.8 | |
| 7 | Dominica | 63.2 | |
| 8 | Trinidad & Tobago | 63.0 | |
| 9 | St Lucia | 62.7 | |
| 10 | Cuba | 60.6 | |
| World Average | 57.5 | ||
| Caribbean Average | 62.9 | ||
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A popular tourist and recreation destination, much of the public face of the Caribbean is scenic and centered on tourism, despite setbacks caused by occassional destructive weather events. Social problems arise from much of the Caribbean being part of established narcotics trade routes between South America and the USA.
There are 29 locations that fall within this category. By adding up all the known populations that fall within these locations, and summing their physical land areas, we can calculate population densities. Some islands and territories can end up being counted twice depending on how they are classified and divided up politically, but, mostly such errors involve only small populations. So, some data on this collection of countries in total:
The Social and Moral Development Index is a formulaic aggregation of many factors. It concentrates on moral issues and human rights, violence, equality, tolerance, freedom and effectiveness in climate change mitigation and environmentalism. A country scores higher for achieving well in those areas, and for sustaining that achievement in the long term. Those countries towards the top of this index can truly said to be setting good examples and leading humankind onwards into a bright, humane, and free future. See: "What is the Best Country in the World? An Index of Morality, Conscience and Good Life" by Vexen Crabtree (2017).
| Country | Social & Moral Development Index1Higher is better | Life Expectancy (2015) Higher is better2 | Gross National Income Per-Capita (2011) Higher is better2 | UN HDI (2016) Lower is better3 | Population | Land Areakm2 | People Per km2Higher is worse | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahamas | 68.2 | 75.56 | $21 565 | 58 | 351 275 | 10 010 | 35 | ||
| 2 | St Vincent & Grenadines | 68.0 | 73.04 | $10 372 | 99 | 109 367 | 390 | 280 | ||
| 3 | Jamaica | 66.7 | 75.82 | $8 350 | 94 | 2 761 331 | 10 830 | 255 | ||
| 4 | Puerto Rico | 66.7 | 8 870 | |||||||
| 5 | Barbados | 66.3 | 75.77 | $14 952 | 54 | 274 530 | 430 | 638 | ||
| 6 | Antigua & Barbuda | 64.8 | 76.24 | $20 907 | 62 | 90 510 | 440 | 206 | ||
| 7 | Dominica | 63.2 | 77.85 | $10 096 | 96 | 67 665 | 750 | 90 | ||
| 8 | Trinidad & Tobago | 63.0 | 70.52 | $28 049 | 65 | 1 350 999 | 5 130 | 263 | ||
| 9 | St Lucia | 62.7 | 75.20 | $9 791 | 92 | 177 794 | 610 | 291 | ||
| 10 | Cuba | 60.6 | 79.57 | $7 455 | 68 | 11 249 266 | 106 440 | 106 | ||
| 11 | Dominican Rep. | 60.5 | 73.65 | $12 756 | 99 | 10 183 339 | 48 320 | 211 | ||
| 12 | St Kitts & Nevis | 60.0 | 73.98 | $22 436 | 74 | 53 697 | 260 | 207 | ||
| 13 | Grenada | 59.5 | 73.56 | $11 502 | 79 | 105 303 | 340 | 310 | ||
| 14 | Haiti | 50.3 | 63.12 | $1 657 | 163 | 10 255 644 | 27 560 | 372 | ||
| World Average | 57.5 | 71.27 | $17 240 | 94.3 | 25.74m | 536 254 | 48 | |||
| Caribbean Average | 62.9 | 74.14 | $13 838 | 84.8 | 2.849m | 16 270 | 175 | |||
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Not showing due to lack of data: Anguilla, Aruba, Bonaire, The British Virgin Islands, The Cayman Islands, Curaco, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba, Sint Eustatius, St Barthelemy, St Martin, The Turks & Caicos Islands and The US Virgin Islands. This page only shows places where the database has enough data to be able to come to reasonable conclusions about each place. The main focus is on nation states, but, some distinct external territories may be listed if the database has enough information about them. Averages are calculated from as many valid data points as possible, meaning, that some territories and locations that are not listed above may still be used to calculate some of the average values. Some calculations only use Independent State data - hover the cursor over values to see hints.
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| Country | Social & Moral Development Index1Higher is better | Gender Inequality (2015)4Lower is better | Nominal Commitment to HR (2009)5Higher is better | Press Freedom (2013)6Lower is better | LGBT Equality7Higher is better | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bahamas | 68.2 | 0.36 | 11 | 10 | ||
| 2 | St Vincent & Grenadines | 68.0 | 15 | -100 | |||
| 3 | Jamaica | 66.7 | 0.42 | 14 | 988 | -100 | |
| 4 | Puerto Rico | 66.7 | 10 | ||||
| 5 | Barbados | 66.3 | 0.29 | 11 | -100 | ||
| 6 | Antigua & Barbuda | 64.8 | 13 | -150 | |||
| 7 | Dominica | 63.2 | 12 | -90 | |||
| 8 | Trinidad & Tobago | 63.0 | 0.32 | 12 | 2312 | -120 | |
| 9 | St Lucia | 62.7 | 0.35 | 6 | -120 | ||
| 10 | Cuba | 60.6 | 0.30 | 11 | 7164 | 30 | |
| 11 | Dominican Rep. | 60.5 | 0.47 | 14 | 2834 | 20 | |
| 12 | St Kitts & Nevis | 60.0 | 9 | -100 | |||
| 13 | Grenada | 59.5 | 7 | -100 | |||
| 14 | Haiti | 50.3 | 0.59 | 12 | 2409 | 10 | |
| World Average | 57.5 | 0.36 | 15.1 | 3249 | -7 | ||
| Caribbean Average | 62.9 | 0.39 | 11.3 | 3141 | -55 | ||
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| Disbelief in God (2004)8 | Religiosity (2009)9 | Jews (2010)10 | Christians (2010)10 | Muslims (2010)10 | Hindus (2010)10 | Buddhists (2010)10 | Folk Religion (2010)10 | Unaffiliated (2010)10 | ||
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| Anguilla | 0.1% | 90.6% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 2.9% | 4.0% | |||
| Antigua & Barbuda | 0.1% | 93.0% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 3.6% | 1.7% | |||
| Aruba | 0.4% | 91.9% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 6.0% | |||
| Bahamas | 0.1% | 96.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 3.1% | |||
| Barbados | 0.1% | 95.2% | 1.0% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 1.9% | |||
| Bonaire | ||||||||||
| British Virgin Islands | 0.1% | 84.5% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 0.1% | 8.4% | 3.9% | |||
| Cayman Islands | 0.8% | 83.5% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.1% | 4.5% | 9.4% | |||
| Cuba | 40% | 0.1% | 59.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 17.4% | 23.0% | ||
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| Dominica | 0.1% | 94.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 3.0% | 0.5% | |||
| Dominican Rep. | 7% | 87% | 0.1% | 88.0% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.9% | 10.9% | |
| Grenada | 0.1% | 96.6% | 0.3% | 0.7% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 1.0% | |||
| Guadeloupe | 0.1% | 95.9% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 2.5% | |||
| Haiti | 0% | 0.1% | 86.9% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 2.2% | 10.6% | ||
| Jamaica | 3% | 0.1% | 77.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.5% | 17.2% | ||
| Martinique | 0.1% | 96.5% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 2.3% | |||
| Montserrat | 0.1% | 93.5% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 4.8% | |||
| Puerto Rico | 0.1% | 96.7% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.8% | 1.9% | |||
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| St Kitts & Nevis | 0.1% | 94.6% | 0.3% | 1.5% | 0.1% | 1.3% | 1.6% | |||
| St Lucia | 0.1% | 91.1% | 0.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 0.5% | 6.0% | |||
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| St Vincent & Grenadines | 0.1% | 88.7% | 1.5% | 3.4% | 0.1% | 2.0% | 2.5% | |||
| Trinidad & Tobago | 9% | 0.1% | 65.9% | 5.9% | 22.7% | 0.3% | 1.9% | 1.9% | ||
| Turks & Caicos Islands | 0.1% | 92.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 2.7% | 4.6% | |||
| US Virgin Islands | 0.3% | 94.8% | 0.1% | 0.4% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 3.7% | |||
| World Averages | 9.9% | 75.1% | 0.5% | 60.6% | 22.4% | 2.0% | 3.5% | 2.7% | 7.9% | |
| Caribbean Averages | 11.8% | 87.0% | 0.2% | 89.0% | 0.6% | 1.5% | 0.1% | 2.6% | 5.4% | |
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