Cayman Islands
Everything Palanor holds about Cayman Islands, in one place: 13 public signals, what its economy runs on, how often America’s largest companies name it, the news that names it, and Country Posture. Every figure is computed from stored readings and carries its source and date.
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The latest read
- GDP in current U.S. dollars: $7.77 billion (2024); record high since 2006; 1y +6.3%.
- Net exports, share of GDP: 13.8% of GDP (2020); 1y −10.31 pts.
Country Posture
What Cayman Islands’s economy is doing
Momentum
2024Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.590 below 0.60; AUC 0.590 below the single-input baseline (0.624); 2010–2022: AUC 0.595 below 0.60; AUC 0.595 below the single-input baseline (0.641).
Inputs
| Real GDP growth | 3.8 |
| Growth against its three-year average | -1.7 |
| Change in unemployment | — |
| Change in the employment rate | — |
| Export volume growth | 19.0 |
| OECD leading indicator | — |
Resilience
2025Withheld: 3 of 5 core inputs reported for 2025.
Inputs
| Interest as a share of revenue | — |
| Budget balance | — |
| Reserves, months of imports (2024) | 0.3 |
| Current account (2024) | -8.8 |
| Governance (WGI mean) | 0.98 |
| External debt | — |
Pressure
2025Inputs only. Did not pass the pre-registered back-test: 1996–2009: AUC 0.657 below the single-input baseline (0.672).
Inputs
| Inflation | — |
| Change in inflation | — |
| Currency move against the dollar | 0.0% |
| Conflict deaths per million | 0.0 |
| Political stability | 1.49 |
| Private credit, three-year change | — |
| Bond spread over U.S. Treasuries | — |
Posture describes what an economy is doing; it is not a rating and never ranks countries. Each input is read against the country’s own history and against every other economy that year. An axis shows a score only after passing a back-test fixed before any result was computed. Method and back-test.
Company graph
Companies headquartered in Cayman Islands
Palanor’s company graph holds 1,119 entities headquartered here, 10 with a listed ticker (GLEIF headquarters address, else legal address).
- PDD Holdings Inc.PDD · Grand Cayman
- ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc.ZTO · George Town
- Xunlei LtdXNET · George Town
- iQIYI, Inc.IQ · UGLAND HOUSE
- HERBALIFE LTD.HLF · George Town, Grand Cayman
- Mynd.ai, Inc.MYND · George Town
- TAL Education GroupTAL · Camana Bay, Grand Cayman
- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.JKS · Georgetown
- GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc.GFS · George Town, Grand Cayman
- Tuniu CorpTOUR · Grand Cayman
Signals
Every series about Cayman Islands
Grouped by theme, the most-read first. All 13 in the Library.
Growth and output1
- Cayman Islands · GDP · USD bn (current)record high since 2006; 1y +6.3%$7.77bn2024
Trade and capital flows4
- Cayman Islands's Share of Foreign-Held U.S. Equities · %13th percentile since Sep 2011; highest since Mar 2026; 1y +0.067 pts10.7% of foreign holdings2026-08-01
- U.S. Equities Held in Cayman Islands · USD bnrecord high since Sep 2011; 1y +23.7%2,697.6 $ billions2026-08-01
- Cayman Islands's Share of Foreign-Held U.S. Treasuries97th percentile since Jan 2012; 1y +0.524 pts4.96% of foreign holdings2026-08-01
- U.S. Treasury Securities Held in Cayman Islands99th percentile since Jan 2012; 1y +12.8%463 $ billions2026-08-01
Migration1 of 3
- U.S.-Born People Living in the Cayman Islands (UN)record high since 19903,507 people2024
Peers
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