These profiles present key figures on concessional finance to individual small island developing states, as well as providing a snapshot of the weight of concessional finance to the overall external financing and a summary of key vulnerabilities and structural challenges. All figures refer to the 2012-15 period, unless otherwise specified.
Making Development Co-operation Work for Small Island Developing States
Chapter 4. Small island developing states: Profiles
Figure 4.1. Antigua and Barbuda
Figure 4.2. Belize
Figure 4.3. Cabo Verde
Figure 4.4. Comoros
Figure 4.5. Cook Islands
Figure 4.6. Cuba
Figure 4.7. Dominica
Figure 4.8. Dominican Republic
Figure 4.9. Fiji
Figure 4.10. Grenada
Figure 4.11. Guinea-Bissau
Figure 4.12. Guyana
Figure 4.13. Haiti
Figure 4.14. Jamaica
Figure 4.15. Kiribati
Figure 4.16. Maldives
Figure 4.17. Marshall Islands
Figure 4.18. Mauritius
Figure 4.19. Micronesia
Figure 4.20. Montserrat
Figure 4.21. Nauru
Figure 4.22. Niue
Figure 4.23. Palau
Figure 4.24. Papua New Guinea
Figure 4.25. Saint Lucia
Figure 4.26. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Figure 4.27. Samoa
Figure 4.28. Sao Tome and Principe
Figure 4.29. Seychelles
Figure 4.30. Solomon Islands
Figure 4.31. Suriname
Figure 4.32. Timor-Leste
Figure 4.33. Tonga
Figure 4.34. Tuvalu
Figure 4.35. Vanuatu
Methodological notes
The snapshots of small island developing states (SIDS) in this report present key statistics on SIDS’ financing for development landscape as well as on key elements of socio‑economic and environmental vulnerability (as represented in the spidergram).
The spidegrams are based on the following data:
Gross national income per capita, atlas method, World Bank;
Ease of Doing Business Index, World Bank;
Connectivity, as measured by the ‘Liner shipping connectivity index’, UNCTAD;
Human development, as measured by the ‘Human Development Index’, UNDP;
Diversification of exports, measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (Product HHI), UNCTAD;
Indebtedness, or debt over GNI. IMF data and IMF estimations for Timor‑Leste, Tonga and Palau.
Environmental vulnerability refers to the Environment Vulnerability Index (EVI), developed by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and their partners.
Data and indexes were normalised to obtain values between 0 and 1, where 1 reflects the best position/situation. For indebtedness and environmental vulnerability best performers are countries with the lowest debt over GNI and the lowest EVI score. Data are from 2015 (or last year available, but not older than 2012).
The following data was not available for the following countries:
GNI per capita and Ease of Doing Business Index for Cuba;
Connectivity data for Timor-Leste;
Ease of Doing Business Index, Connectivity and Environmental resilience for Tuvalu;
Human development for the Marshall Islands;
Ease of doing business index for Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Micronesia.