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Income

Country

Social Progress

High

Trinidad and Tobago (C)

*

Panama (CA)

Upper middle

Costa Rica (CA)

High

Upper middle

Dominican Republic (C)

Lower middle

Jamaica (C)

Upper middle

Belize (CA)

*

El Salvador (CA)

Lower middle

Guatemala (CA)

Lower middle

Lower middle

Cuba** (C)

Lower middle

Nicaragua (CA)

Lower middle

Honduras (CA)

Lower middle

Low

Haiti (C)

*

C, Caribbean; CA, Central America. * No overall rank because of incomplete data. ** Rank for Cuba based on 2013 data. All others are from 2014.

Social Progress Imperative releases more city-level scores like those recently published for 10 cities in Colombia (socialprogressimperative.org/data/spi/ countries/COL). The chapters that follow explore some of the stories behind the scores and look at some of the reasons for countries’ strengths and weaknesses. You’ll see how wealth and social progress are not always related and how a good score does not necessarily mean that improved social progress applies to everyone.

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S OCIAL P ROGRESS IN C ENTRAL A MERICA AND THE C ARIBBEAN