Trinidad and Tobago
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a country in Caribbean, covered by the Atlas as part of Latin America & the Caribbean. It is home to about 1.4 m people. Its Human Development Index of 0.807 ranks it 72 of 193 countries (2023). Its political system is classified as liberal democracy.
- Political regime
- Liberal democracy
- All countries · 2025
V-Dem (Regimes of the World), via Our World in Data
Regional profile
Latin America & the Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago 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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