Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia is a country in Caribbean, covered by the Atlas as part of Latin America & the Caribbean. It is home to about 183 k people. Its Human Development Index of 0.748 ranks it 103 of 193 countries (2023).
- Population in extreme poverty
- 6.4 %
- Ranked 106 of 171 · 2015
World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform
Regional profile
Latin America & the Caribbean
Saint Lucia is part of Latin America & the Caribbean. Our editors write about the region as a whole — its story, topics and sources below cover all its countries.
View the whole region →The most urbanised region of the global south and among the most unequal. Latin America swings between electoral cycles with unusual speed, carries some of the world's highest homicide rates, and holds resources — lithium, copper, soy, the Amazon — that the energy transition has made strategic.
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