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  • 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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    • Human Development Report, 2023-24 Statistical Update
      March 2024
      Source: United Nations Development Programme
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 10 April, 2024
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      Data Cited at: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, Human Development Data Center The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of achievements in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the the three dimensions.