The D. Tables start in 1960 and end in 2008. The colour-coding is black or, if the data are estimated, red.

The data for this period for most countries are much more easily accessible than for the years before 1960. I have made extensive use of the Internet version of World Bank, World Development Indicators (hereafter WDI); the Internet version of the United Nations Database (hereafter UND); the Internet version of the United Nations National Accounts (hereafter UNNA); the historic series prepared by CEPAL (2009); various issues of ECLAC, Statistical Abstract for Latin America and the Caribbean and ECLAC, Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean; IMF, International Financial Statistics (hereafter IFS); United Nations, Statistical Yearbook (hereafter UNSY); and United Nations, Yearbook of International Trade Statistics (hereafter UNYITS). For the French Départements d’Outre-Mer (DOMs), I used the Web site of the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (hereafter INSEE).

Anguilla is treated separately from St Kitts & Nevis from 1970 onwards, after the federation of St Kitts, Nevis & Anguilla came to an end, and Aruba is treated separately from the Dutch Antilles from 1986 onwards after it left the Dutch Antilles and became a unit within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Thirteen countries became independent after 1960 and in due course formed the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and the constitutional position of those that remained dependencies was changed in many cases. This therefore requires a change in the subregions. These are now: Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Cuba, CARICOM (including the Bahamas and Suriname, but excluding Haiti and Montserrat), British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks & Caicos Islands), the French Départements d’Outre-Mer (French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique), Dutch territories (Aruba and Dutch Antilles) and US ‘Outlying Territories’ (Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands).