Puerto Rico
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
- Region
- Americas · Caribbean
- Capital
- San Juan
- Population
- 3,184,835 (2025)
- Government
- unincorporated organized territory of the US with local self-government; republican form of territorial government with separate executive, legislative, and judicial branches; note - reference Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act, 2 March 1917, as amended by Public Law 600, 3 July 1950
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Official languages
- English, Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, English
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 8,870 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- No
- Affiliations
- CARICOM (observer)
Political stability
73 / 100
Economic stability
56 / 100
Population stability
38 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- packaged medicines, medical cultures/vaccines, hormones, orthopedic and medical appliances, sulfur compounds (2019)
- Key imports
- nitrogen compounds, sulfur compounds, refined petroleum, medical cultures/vaccines, cars (2019)
- Natural resources
- some copper and nickel
- Primary route
- U.S. Gulf and East Coast services, with Caribbean transshipment hubs (Kingston, Caucedo, Freeport)
- Secondary route
- Panama Canal connections to Asia-Pacific markets
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.