Chapter 4. Small island developing states: Profiles

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.

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.