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Legatum Prosperity Index 2016
Guyana
Ranked 80th of 149 on the 2016 Legatum Prosperity Index™
OVERVIEW
Despite having relatively strong social capital, Guyana is held back by an
economy too vulnerable to volatile commodity prices and a weak business
environment.
Since 2007, Guyana has not managed to improve much in its Economic Quality and Business
Environment sub-indices, which remains among the country’s weakest performances.
Education and Health are also below both regional and world averages: in these two subindices the biggest concerns are the quasi-absence of tertiary education and the region’s
highest mortality rate, respectively. However, with policy reform in these areas, building on
the strong social capital and notable improvements in the Governance sub-index, could see
prosperity rise strongly in Guyana.
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Sub-Index Rankings
In the Prosperity Sub-Index rankings, Guyana
performs best on Social Capital
and Governance and scores lowest on
the Business Environment sub-index.
Visit our Rankings table to see how Guyana
compares to other countries.
PROSPERITY GAP
The ‘Prosperity Gap’ takes a country's GDP and uses it as the yardstick to measure a nation's
expected Prosperity Index ranking.
Guyana is an upper-middle income country that is delivering prosperity as expected given its
wealth. Yet, it does not perform equally across the Index: for example, it has a significant
deficit in its Business Environment sub-index, but a substantial surplus in Social Capital.
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