Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in Trinidad and Tobago: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we look at the statistics of human lives to understand the material reality of existence. For Trinidad and Tobago, average yearly economic output per person, adjusted for purchasing power using 2017 international dollars, tells a story across three centuries where every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there. In the 2020s, income per person stands at 14,500 intl-$ — ranking #102 of 157 countries. This metric shapes the daily boundaries of nourishment, labor, and security, converting the abstract flow of macroeconomics into the concrete textures of a human lifespan.

The historical arc of this economy reveals a steady, compounding climb across generations. In the 1800s estimate it was 1,000 intl-$, creeping upward through the 1810s estimate 1,070, the 1820s estimate 1,140, the 1830s estimate 1,210, the 1840s estimate 1,280, the 1850s estimate 1,350, the 1860s estimate 1,420, the 1870s estimate 1,490, the 1880s estimate 1,560, and the 1890s estimate 1,630. By 1900 it was 1,700 intl-$, followed by the 1900s estimate 1,700, the 1910s estimate 2,160, the 1920s estimate 2,620, the 1930s estimate 3,080, and the 1940s estimate 3,540. The decades rolled forward through the 1950s 4,000, 1960s 5,667, 1970s 7,333, 1980s 9,000, 1990s 10,000, 2000s 11,000, and 2010s 12,750, arriving at the current 2020s 14,500. Projections peer further into the future through the 2030s projection 16,675, 2040s projection 19,176, 2050s projection 22,053, 2060s projection 25,361, 2070s projection 29,165, 2080s projection 33,539, 2090s projection 38,570, and 2100s projection 44,356.

If you were born here across these different eras, your economic world was defined by these exact thresholds of productivity and resource availability. From the baseline estimates of the early nineteenth century to the expansive projections of the twenty-second, each era offered a distinct material baseline that bounded the possibilities of everyday survival and advancement.

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