{
 "title": "Belize and the United States, per person",
 "page": "https://belizepulse.com/belize-basics/per-person",
 "checked_on": "2026-09-23",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0: free to reuse with credit to belizepulse.com.",
 "notes": "Per person, per year unless the measure says otherwise. us_to_belize_ratio is the US figure divided by Belize's. Read the page for what each row does and doesn't say.",
 "sources": [
  "World Bank, World Development Indicators: GDP per capita, current US$ (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD) and PPP (NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD); GNI per capita, Atlas method (NY.GNP.PCAP.CD) and PPP (NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD); household final consumption expenditure, current US$ (NE.CON.PRVT.CD) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL); life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN); individuals using the internet (IT.NET.USER.ZS); electric power consumption per capita (EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC; US only, no Belize data); CO₂ emissions excluding LULUCF per capita (EN.GHG.CO2.PC.CE.AR5, from EDGAR); annual freshwater withdrawals (ER.H2O.FWTL.K3, from FAO AQUASTAT) divided by 2022 population",
  "World Health Organization, Global Health Expenditure Database, via the World Bank (SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD, SH.XPD.CHEX.PP.CD, SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS), cross-checked against the WHO Global Health Observatory API",
  "Our World in Data, Per capita electricity demand (Ember), CO₂ emissions per capita (Global Carbon Budget 2025) and Water withdrawals per capita (FAO AQUASTAT; US check)",
  "World Bank, What a Waste 2.0, country-level data: total municipal solid waste generated and population",
  "US Environmental Protection Agency, National overview: facts and figures on materials, wastes and recycling (2018: 4.9 lb per person per day)",
  "Central Bank of Belize, Annual Report 2025 (stay-over arrivals and the US share)"
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "measure": "Electricity used (kWh)",
   "belize": 2038,
   "united_states": 12752,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 6.3,
   "year": "2024"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Water withdrawn (m³)",
   "belize": 251,
   "united_states": 1330,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 5.3,
   "year": "Totals: Belize 2000, US 2015 (see note)"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Water withdrawn (litres a day)",
   "belize": 687,
   "united_states": 3644,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": null,
   "year": "Totals: Belize 2000, US 2015 (see note)"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Municipal waste (kg a day)",
   "belize": 0.77,
   "united_states": 2.22,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 2.9,
   "year": "Belize c. 2015; US 2018"
  },
  {
   "measure": "CO₂ from fuel and industry (tonnes)",
   "belize": 1.9,
   "united_states": 14.2,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 7.4,
   "year": "2024"
  },
  {
   "measure": "GDP per person (US$)",
   "belize": 7865,
   "united_states": 90027,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 11.4,
   "year": "2025"
  },
  {
   "measure": "GDP per person (PPP, international $)",
   "belize": 14966,
   "united_states": 90027,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 6.0,
   "year": "2025"
  },
  {
   "measure": "GNI per person (Atlas, US$)",
   "belize": 7530,
   "united_states": 88810,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 11.8,
   "year": "2025"
  },
  {
   "measure": "GNI per person (PPP, international $)",
   "belize": 14230,
   "united_states": 89490,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 6.3,
   "year": "2025"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Household consumption (US$)",
   "belize": 4938,
   "united_states": 58517,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 11.9,
   "year": "2024"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Health spending (US$)",
   "belize": 309,
   "united_states": 13473,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 43.5,
   "year": "2023"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Health spending (PPP, international $)",
   "belize": 573,
   "united_states": 13473,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": 23.5,
   "year": "2023"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Life expectancy at birth (years)",
   "belize": 73.7,
   "united_states": 78.9,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": null,
   "year": "2024"
  },
  {
   "measure": "Share of people using the internet (%)",
   "belize": 80,
   "united_states": 95,
   "us_to_belize_ratio": null,
   "year": "2024"
  }
 ]
}