Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of main human, agricultural, food, health and COVID-19 variables in the Caribbean region.
| Variables | Whole Caribbean countries (n = 21) | Greater Antilles countries (n = 4) | Lesser Antilles countries (n = 17) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total human population* | 40,491,736 | 36,538,214 | 3,953,522 |
| Mean of median age (years)* | 35.29 | 29.65 | 36.62 |
| cv | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.11 |
| Mean of Human Development Index* | 0.72 | 0.72 | 0.73 |
| cv | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.22 |
| Mean of Rural population (%)* | 39.86 | 32.73 | 41.75 |
| cv | 0.66 | 0.42 | 0.69 |
| Mean of Agricultural land (%)* | 26.14 | 54.10 | 19.15 |
| cv | 0.71 | 0.21 | 0.64 |
| Mean of diabetes prevalence in adults (%)* | 10.44 | 9.05 | 10.79 |
| cv | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.22 |
| Mean of obesity prevalence in adults (%)* | 23.69 | 24.63 | 23.35 |
| cv | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.17 |
| Mean of mortality by metabolic disorders (‰)* | 19.60 | 19.15 | 19.86 |
| cv | 0.19 | 0.27 | 0.16 |
| COVID-19 confirmed cases per million** | 3103 | 2660 | 3207 |
| cv | 1.56 | 1.52 | 1.59 |
| COVID-19 death rate per million** | 41 | 48 | 40 |
| cv | 1.24 | 1.54 | 1.20 |
| Mean of maximum of Stringency Index (%) *** | 89.66 | 94.45 | 87.27 |
| cv | 0.79 | 0.59 | 0.78 |
Notes: cv = coefficient of variation (standard deviation/mean); Greater Antilles: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico; Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands.
Sources: *: World bank - World Development Indicators (data for the year 2018 accessed 04/23/2020 on worldbank website); **: John Hopkins University (USA); ***: University of Oxford (UK); the latest Covid-19 data (Johns Hopkins and Oxford Universities) were downloaded on September 16, 2021.