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Belize

  • Governor General:Drame Froyla Tzalam
  • Prime Minister:Johnny Briceño
  • Capital city:Belmopan
  • Languages:English 62.9% (official), Spanish 56.6%, Creole 44.6%, Maya 10.5%, German 3.2%, Garifuna 2.9%, other 1.8%, unknown 0.3%, none 0.2% (cannot speak) note: shares sum to more than 100% because some respondents gave more than one answer on the census (2010 est.)
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  • Population, persons:420,046 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:22,810
  • GDP per capita, US$:7,460 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:3.1 (2023)
  • GINI index:53.3 (1999)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:135

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    • World Happiness Index
      March 2025
      Source: Sustainable Development Solutions Network
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 08 April, 2025
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      The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective well-being and digs more deeply into how the social, urban and natural environments combine to affect our happiness.