St. Helena

St. Helena: A Data-Sparse Territory

The fact bundle for St. Helena contains no economic, governance, or military data: there are no figures for GDP, population, government debt, military expenditure, personnel, or V-Dem governance scores. What follows is limited to four energy series from Our World in Data, all of which describe a very small island economy.

Primary energy consumption was 0.0002 exajoules in 2023, and electricity generation was 0.01 terawatt-hours, also dated 2023 — both figures are reasonably current relative to the rest of this bundle. Oil production and gas production are both listed at zero, dated 2016.

Data gaps

There is no World Bank, IMF, SIPRI, or Correlates of War coverage for St. Helena in this dataset, so no statement can be made here about its economy, governance, or military capability. Even within the energy data, the oil and gas production figures are a decade old. The two 2023 figures — primary energy and electricity generation — are the only reasonably current data points available, and both describe an economy too small to register meaningfully against global energy datasets built for larger states. This briefing is kept short deliberately: padding it with unsupported claims would violate the honesty standard this product is built on.

Sources: Our World in Data (Energy).