Where does Trinidad and Tobago stand on Trust?
This page reads one capability from the published data and is recomputed with every release. It separates what Trinidad and Tobago does, which makes the score, from what the country has, which sits beside the score, and places the country among the 10 countries at the nearest income. The text describes the data and recommends no policy.
What does the score rest on?
Confidence is in the thin band, so the score rests on little evidence.
The Trust score is the equal-weight mean of the positions of three indicators on a 0 to 100 scale that every country sets together. Confidence measures the evidence behind the score and sits beside it as a second number.
The Trust score tracks GDP per capita at r = 0.35 across 123 countries.
Observed indicators
- Position on the scale23.9Peer median72.310 peers with a value
Time to enforce a contract
1,340 days
World Bank (ENF.CONT.DURS.DY), 2019
- Position on the scale55.3Peer median93.710 peers with a value
Bribery incidence
22.6 % of firms
World Bank (IC.FRM.BRIB.ZS), 2025
- Position on the scale73.2Peer median82.110 peers with a value
Government compliance with the courts
2.8 scale 0-4 (never to always)
V-Dem (v2jucomp_osp), 2025
- Position on the scaleno valuePeer median20.97 peers with a value
Generalised interpersonal trust
no value
- Position on the scaleno valuePeer median25.67 peers with a value
Cooperation beyond the in-group
no value
No comparable source yet, so lowering confidence: trust in public institutions and court case clearance rate.
No condition is published beside Trust in this release, so the page shows only the indicators that make the score.
Where does Trinidad and Tobago sit among its peers?
The peers are the 10 countries at the nearest income. Income is GDP per capita at purchasing power parity, in constant international dollars, for the latest year the World Bank publishes, and distance is measured on a log scale, where half and double are equally far. No country is picked by hand, and the set changes when the data does.
In this release peer income runs from US$ 27,603 to US$ 37,301, and Trinidad and Tobago has US$ 31,722 (2025).
- Solid ring: usable or good evidence
- Broken ring: thin evidence, opening further as confidence falls
- The shaded band is the middle half of the set and the line inside it is the median.
- Mauritius: 83.8
- Costa Rica: 81.1
- Serbia: 67.1
- Bulgaria: 61.2
- Chile: 60.4
- Uruguay: 58.7
- Malaysia: 58.2
- Belarus: 52.4
- Trinidad and Tobago: 50.8
- Argentina: 50.6
- Turkey: 46.2
What separates Trinidad and Tobago from its peers?
Trinidad and Tobago scores 50.8 on Trust, below the median of the 10 scored peers, which is 59.6.
Indicators placed below the peer median on the scale: time to enforce a contract, bribery incidence, and government compliance with the courts.
Each sentence compares one position with one median. Why a difference exists, and what to do about it, lie outside this data.
What this reading does not show
- A national score is a coarse proxy. A capability forms in firms, cities, networks and groups below the level of the country, and a national average only describes the conditions they work in.
- Peers share income and nothing else. Size, production structure, region and political regime are outside the rule, and a set of 10 countries can change with any revision to GDP.
- An r reads the whole set at once and says nothing about one country alone. A correlation does not show a cause either.
- The known artefacts that bear on Trust, described on the limits page: artefact A3, artefact A6, artefact A12.
- And the ones every score in the benchmark carries: artefact A8, artefact A10.