Human Development & Quality of Life in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Human Development
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines enters the 2025 UNDP report with a 2023 HDI of 0.798 and rank 76, within the high human development group. The headline needs context: The income component uses GNI per capita of $17,247 in 2021 PPP dollars. Another part of the dashboard shows that the health component is anchored by life expectancy of 71.2 years.
What sits inside Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's HDI
For Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, health contributes through life expectancy of 71.2; education through 16.3 expected and 11.3 mean years of schooling; and income through GNI per capita of $17,247 in 2021 PPP dollars. Those are the published inputs behind the 2023 HDI. When the indicator is reused, do not infer an unstated comparison because the evidence is strongest when each metric keeps its own scope.
Gender and planetary-pressure adjustments
The available UNDP coverage for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is not sufficient to populate GDI, GII or PHDI on this page. The profile does not turn an absent source observation into a calculated replacement.
Quality-of-life coverage is conditional
No comparable OECD life-satisfaction observation is published on this page for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. No value is inferred when the underlying source does not publish one. For the profile as a whole, preserve the source's country coverage before using the result as a shorthand for lived experience.
What Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's numbers say together
For Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the page avoids a broad comparison because the UNDP coverage is incomplete.
For the current profile, the headline UNDP result for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is HDI 0.798, rank 76, for 2023. Broader quality-of-life indicators remain outside that index.
Frequently asked questions
What is Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's HDI?
For the 2023 observation year, UNDP reports HDI 0.798 and rank 76 for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Is an inequality-adjusted HDI available for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines?
The source coverage for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines does not include IHDI in this edition. A missing source value is shown as unavailable.
Why is there no life satisfaction score on this page?
This profile does not fill the quality-of-life section for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines simply to complete the layout. The profile does not turn an absent source observation into a calculated replacement.
Is HDI the same as quality of life?
No. HDI is built from health, schooling and income indicators. Quality-of-life evidence is presented alongside HDI only when a comparable observation is available.
Sources & methodology
Sources for the development indicators and definitions shown above.
View sources used for this page
Primary source for 2023 HDI and its components, plus IHDI, GDI, GII and PHDI where reported.
Report edition underlying the 2023 human-development indices and ranking.
Data note: Reference years are shown with each indicator; unavailable observations remain unfilled.