Where you could be born / Latin America and the Caribbean / Caribbean
Born in Guadeloupe
About 1 in 31,455 people born in 2023 started life in Guadeloupe. A boy can expect to live 78 years and a girl 86, up from 51 and 55 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 29 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 110 in every 1,000 births to 9.2.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 5.6 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.1, below the 2.1 it takes to keep a population steady.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Les Abymes, with 53,514 people.
People on the move
About 3.3% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Martinique, French Guiana, Sint Maarten (Dutch part).
Safety nets
82% of older people receive a pension. Help for someone who loses a job reaches 58%.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Guadeloupe, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences