Caribbean economic outlook 2026

The Caribbean ends 2025 having weathered an active hurricane season, persistent cost-of-living pressures and global macroeconomic uncertainty to deliver solid economic growth across most major markets. Our year-end review assesses the region’s performance, the prospects for 2026 and where investment opportunities are emerging.

The Caribbean closes 2024 with resilience: Hurricane Beryl struck in July, tourism set records, Guyana’s oil output hit 620k bpd, and Jamaica’s fiscal discipline delivered a seventh straight surplus.

Caribbean tourism surpassed 2019 pre-pandemic records in 2023 as Guyana’s oil production reached 400,000 bpd. As 2024 begins, the region’s property markets balance strong tourism-driven demand against high interest rate headwinds.

A comprehensive review of 2022’s defining events for Caribbean property and investment: the Russia-Ukraine inflation shock, Hurricane Fiona, tourism’s dramatic recovery and Guyana’s oil boom, with a 2023 outlook.

A comprehensive review of the Caribbean property and investment landscape in 2021 — tourism recovery, Barbados republic, Guyana oil revenues — and an outlook for 2022 as Omicron clouds the horizon.