Dominican Republic
- Capital
- Santo Domingo
- Population
- 11 m
- Area
- 48,671 km²
- Region
- Caribbean
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Dominican peso ($)
- Demonym
- Dominican
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Share of the population that used the internet in the last three months.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the Taino island of Quisqueya and Columbus's first colony to Santo Domingo, the first European city of the Americas, through Haitian unification, hard-won independence on 27 February 1844, the long shadow of Trujillo, and a modern tourism-and-services economy.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.