Insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States
Caribbean Small States: Insurance and financial services was 14.7% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States, 1976–2025
Source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF). Measured in % of commercial service imports.
Analysis
Caribbean Small States recorded 14.7% for insurance and financial services in 2025.
That represents a change of up 6.7% on the previous year and up 33.5% over ten years.
Over the whole period, insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States peaked at 22.7% in 2022 and was at its lowest, 3.6%, in 1998.
Caribbean Small States ranks 2nd of 47 groups on this measure, in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 50 years of available data.
Insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States, year by year
| Year | % of commercial service imports | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7.3% | — |
| 1977 | 7.2% | -1.3% |
| 1978 | 7.4% | +2.3% |
| 1979 | 7.1% | -4.6% |
| 1980 | 7.3% | +3.5% |
| 1981 | 7.2% | -1.8% |
| 1982 | 7.6% | +6.0% |
| 1983 | 6.8% | -10.3% |
| 1984 | 5.9% | -14.1% |
| 1985 | 5.8% | -1.7% |
| 1986 | 7.0% | +21.3% |
| 1987 | 9.7% | +38.8% |
| 1988 | 8.6% | -11.1% |
| 1989 | 8.4% | -3.3% |
| 1990 | 8.4% | +0.8% |
| 1991 | 10.9% | +29.6% |
| 1992 | 10.6% | -3.1% |
| 1993 | 10.0% | -5.6% |
| 1994 | 9.9% | -1.4% |
| 1995 | 8.6% | -13.2% |
| 1996 | 5.7% | -33.2% |
| 1997 | 4.6% | -19.1% |
| 1998 | 3.6% | -21.2% |
| 1999 | 5.0% | +36.2% |
| 2000 | 4.7% | -5.4% |
| 2001 | 6.1% | +29.9% |
| 2002 | 5.4% | -12.0% |
| 2003 | 5.8% | +8.2% |
| 2004 | 4.9% | -16.3% |
| 2005 | 7.7% | +58.3% |
| 2006 | 4.6% | -40.7% |
| 2007 | 4.7% | +2.5% |
| 2008 | 5.6% | +19.4% |
| 2009 | 7.6% | +35.9% |
| 2010 | 14.3% | +89.1% |
| 2011 | 10.3% | -28.2% |
| 2012 | 10.5% | +1.9% |
| 2013 | 10.5% | +0.4% |
| 2014 | 10.2% | -3.4% |
| 2015 | 11.0% | +8.1% |
| 2016 | 10.6% | -3.7% |
| 2017 | 8.9% | -16.0% |
| 2018 | 11.4% | +27.8% |
| 2019 | 11.6% | +2.2% |
| 2020 | 16.4% | +41.3% |
| 2021 | 15.0% | -8.8% |
| 2022 | 22.7% | +51.7% |
| 2023 | 12.7% | -44.1% |
| 2024 | 13.8% | +8.3% |
| 2025 | 14.7% | +6.7% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | +89.1% | 7.6% | 14.3% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7.3% | 7.1% | 7.4% | 4 |
| 1980s | 7.4% | 5.8% | 9.7% | 10 |
| 1990s | 7.7% | 3.6% | 10.9% | 10 |
| 2000s | 5.7% | 4.6% | 7.7% | 10 |
| 2010s | 10.9% | 8.9% | 14.3% | 10 |
| 2020s | 15.9% | 12.7% | 22.7% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Caribbean Small States
- 1 Luxembourg 49.4% compare
- 2 Bahrain 35.0% compare
- 3 Cayman Islands 30.3% compare
- 4 Libya 27.7% compare
- 5 Macau, China 22.1% compare
More private sector data for Caribbean Small States
- Merchandise trade 70.0% (2025)
- Food imports 17.2% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 63.2% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 31.17 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 13.7% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 45.4% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 30.03 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 6,590 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.3156 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -3.4 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States?
- Insurance and financial services in Caribbean Small States was 14.7% in 2025, according to Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- What is the highest insurance and financial services recorded in Caribbean Small States?
- The highest recorded value was 22.7% in 2022.
- What is the lowest insurance and financial services recorded in Caribbean Small States?
- The lowest recorded value was 3.6% in 1998.
- How does Caribbean Small States rank for insurance and financial services?
- Caribbean Small States ranks 2nd out of 47 groups with data for 2025.
- Is insurance and financial services rising or falling in Caribbean Small States?
- Over the last ten years it is up 33.5%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Caribbean Small States data come from?
- The figures come from Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as part of Insurance and financial services (% of commercial service imports). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Financial services covers services related to financial intermediation, financial risk management, liquidity transformation or auxiliary financial activities. It also includes insurance and pension scheme services which are services related to providing life insurance and annuities, non-life insurance, reinsurance, pensions, standardised guarantees and auxiliary services to insurance, pension schemes, and standardised guarantee schemes. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are commercial services provided by non-residents to residents.