5th highest CO₂ per person22.9 t · #5 of 203 · 2024
7th highest homicide rate40.4 per 100k · #7 of 160 · 2022
18th highest nobel laureates per 10 million people7.3 · #18 of 160 · 2025
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Surprising facts about Trinidad and Tobago
The comparisons that stand out most against its neighbours, its region and the world median.
Picked for surprise among Trinidad and Tobago’s neighbours, its region and the world median.
Trinidad and Tobago among 213 countries & territories
Each dot shows where Trinidad and Tobago sits between the lowest and the highest value in the world; “See it” opens the full visual against the
world median. Higher is not automatically better.
World twins
The countries most like Trinidad and Tobago across 12 indicators (GDP/person, Life exp., Median age, Fertility, Urban, Internet, Schooling, CO₂/person, Density, Temperature, Happiness, Obesity). Each indicator is standardised and compared by average distance; a resemblance, not a score.
Trinidad and Tobago has no land borders: these are the 5 nearest countries by distance between capitals.
Equal-area map centred on Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago
vs Grenada 158 km
vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 280 km
vs Barbados 342 km
vs Saint Lucia 377 km
vs Dominica 517 km