Barbados
62 figures for Barbados, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Barbados compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $28,365 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $25,894 (2025)
- Economic growth +2.7% (2025)
- Unemployment 6.5% (2025)
- Inflation +1.4% (2024)
- Income per person $17,327 (2023)
- Household wealth 91.4 (2016)
- Poorer households 0.9% (2016)
- Wealth inequality 0.05 (2016)
People
- Population 282,347 (2023)
- Population growth +0.06% (2025)
- Births per woman 1.71 (2024)
- Typical age 38.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 59.7% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.811 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 1.035 (2023)
- People per household 2.9 (2016)
- People over 65 13.2% (2016)
- Children under 15 19.3% (2016)
- Women’s age at first marriage 23.8 (2016)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 22.7 (2016)
Health
- Life expectancy 76.2 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 9.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 35 (2023)
- Health spending per person $1,286 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 88% (2024)
- Overweight adults 67.2% (2022)
- Stunted children 7.6% (2016)
- Overweight children 12.5% (2016)
- Homes with piped water 98.9% (2016)
- Homes with a flush toilet 90.9% (2016)
Education
- Years of schooling 9.9 (2023)
- Expected years in school 16.6 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 102.5% (2023)
- Education spending 4.1% (2022)
- Teens in school 87.6% (2016)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 4.83 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 1.37 million (2024)
- Forest cover 14.7% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 11.2 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 5.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.4 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 1,478 (2007)
- Access to electricity 100.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 9.0% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 0.0% (2016)
Technology
- Internet users 70.4% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 114.6 (2022)
- Home broadband 37.5 (2022)
- Homes with internet 55.7% (2016)
- Homes with a mobile phone 91.2% (2016)
Food and farming
- Hunger 4.4% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,797 (2023)
- Farmland 23.3% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 1.2% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.80 (2025)
- Human rights 0.92 (2025)
- Control of corruption +1.23 (2025)
- Women in parliament 26.7% (2025)
- Clean government 72.3 (2022)