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🇧🇧 Barbados
High income. Capital Bridgetown. Upper-third GDP/cap (HIC · LONG) with 37 official series - peers and ranks below.
- 282.5K
- Population
- $7.6 billion
- GDP
- $26,897
- GDP / capita
- 76.3 years
- Life expectancy
Upper-third GDP/cap · LONG
Barbados ranks 163rd of 217 by total GDP and 96th for life expectancy - a high income economy in Latin America & Caribbean.
- #163
- World GDP rank (of 217)
- $26,897
- GDP per capita
- #96
- Life-expectancy rank
- #179
- Population rank
Barbados clears the upper third of the GDP/cap roster (#59 of 214) under HIC with a LONG life-expectancy stamp.
Barbados vs all countries by total GDP
Where this economy's World Bank total GDP sits among every country with a positive observation (inventory signal, not a virtue ranking)
$7,597,571,450 163rd of 214 higher than 51 of 214 countries
Countries banded by World Bank total GDP (current US$)
Each bar is a $0.001K-wide band; taller bars hold more countries. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source World Bank, GDP (current US$) · 2026-08-14
Barbados on the global income map
Barbados (BRB) sits in the upper GDP/cap third - plotted with largest peers on GDP per capita × life expectancy (LONG).
- Barbados: GDP per capita $26,897 (2024), life expectancy 76.3 years (2024), high income.
- India: GDP per capita $2,695 (2024), life expectancy 72.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- China: GDP per capita $13,303 (2024), life expectancy 78.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United States: GDP per capita $84,534 (2024), life expectancy 78.9 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Indonesia: GDP per capita $4,925 (2024), life expectancy 71.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Pakistan: GDP per capita $1,479 (2024), life expectancy 67.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Nigeria: GDP per capita $1,084 (2024), life expectancy 54.6 years (2024), low income.
- Brazil: GDP per capita $10,311 (2024), life expectancy 76.0 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Bangladesh: GDP per capita $2,593 (2024), life expectancy 74.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Russian Federation: GDP per capita $14,889 (2024), life expectancy 73.4 years (2024), high income.
- Ethiopia: GDP per capita $1,134 (2024), life expectancy 67.6 years (2024), low income.
- Mexico: GDP per capita $14,186 (2024), life expectancy 75.3 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Japan: GDP per capita $32,487 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Egypt, Arab Rep.: GDP per capita $3,338 (2024), life expectancy 71.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Philippines: GDP per capita $3,985 (2024), life expectancy 69.9 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Congo, Dem. Rep.: GDP per capita $693 (2024), life expectancy 62.1 years (2024), low income.
- Viet Nam: GDP per capita $4,717 (2024), life expectancy 74.7 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Iran, Islamic Rep.: GDP per capita $5,190 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Turkiye: GDP per capita $15,893 (2024), life expectancy 77.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Germany: GDP per capita $56,104 (2024), life expectancy 80.8 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Thailand: GDP per capita $7,387 (2024), life expectancy 76.6 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- United Kingdom: GDP per capita $53,246 (2024), life expectancy 81.4 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Tanzania: GDP per capita $1,193 (2024), life expectancy 67.2 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- France: GDP per capita $46,103 (2024), life expectancy 83.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- South Africa: GDP per capita $6,267 (2024), life expectancy 66.3 years (2024), upper-middle income.
- Italy: GDP per capita $40,385 (2024), life expectancy 84.0 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Kenya: GDP per capita $2,133 (2024), life expectancy 63.8 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Myanmar: GDP per capita $1,359 (2024), life expectancy 67.1 years (2024), lower-middle income.
- Colombia: GDP per capita $7,951 (2024), life expectancy 77.9 years (2024), upper-middle income, OECD member.
- Korea, Rep.: GDP per capita $36,239 (2024), life expectancy 83.6 years (2024), high income, OECD member.
- Sudan: GDP per capita $985 (2024), life expectancy 66.5 years (2024), low income.
Overview
Barbados has a population of 282.5K, making it the 179th-most populous country out of 217 tracked in Latin America & Caribbean.
Its economy totals $7.6 billion - ranked 163rd globally by total GDP. GDP per capita stands at $26,897, placing it in the High income category.
Life expectancy at birth is 76.3 years (ranked 96th globally), reflecting overall health outcomes as measured by the World Bank.
The capital is Bridgetown.
👥 Demographics
💰 Economy
🏥 Health
📚 Education
🌍 Environment
🏗️ Infrastructure
⚖️ Social
🌐 Livability Score
One composite verdict from 4 of 5 World Bank series (life expectancy, under-5 mortality, electricity access, clean-water access, homicide rate), each benchmarked against every country tracking that series. A missing series never silently drags the score down: its weight redistributes across the series Barbados does report.
All indicators for Barbados
37 latest observations from World Bank WDI, WHO GHO, and ILO ILOSTAT (vintage through 2026-08-14). Values match the topic cards above; this table is the machine-readable export view analysts expect on a country profile.
🫀 Disease Burden
Among external causes, Barbados stamps a suicide rate of 64.0 per 100,000 (fleet midpoint 23.3) - higher relative to peers than its NCD strip. Summary metrics use 2021 data; cause-specific cards show their own observation year.
Non-communicable Diseases
Injuries & External Causes
Sources: WHO Global Health Observatory. NCD mortality rate: 2021. Rates are age-standardized per 100,000 population. Premature NCD risk covers cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease.
Compare Barbados with near GDP/cap peers
Side-by-side pages for the closest ABS GDP/cap neighbours - not a full-roster dropdown.
Read with Barbados
Nearest GDP/cap peers and LE poles for Barbados (HIC · LONG), replacing the old fixed guide and region clone strip.
HIC LONG
Slovak Republic · HIC
Slovak Republic GDP/cap $25,993 is lower by $905 than Barbados; LE stamp PEAK vs LONG.
Poland · HIC
Poland GDP/cap $25,104 is lower by $1,794 than Barbados; LE stamp PEAK vs LONG.
Greece · HIC
Greece GDP/cap $24,626 is lower by $2,271 than Barbados; LE stamp PEAK vs LONG.
New Caledonia · HIC
New Caledonia GDP/cap $29,213 is higher by $2,316 than Barbados; LE stamp PEAK vs LONG.
Latin America & Caribbean WDI roster
Barbados stamps HIC · LONG inside Latin America & Caribbean - open the region roster after the ABS peers.
GDP/cap leaderboard (#59)
Barbados ranks #59 of 214 on NY.GDP.PCAP.CD under the HIC Atlas band.
What the data says about Barbados
Barbados sits in the high-income bracket but outside the OECD's harmonized reporting network, so its statistics come straight from the World Bank, WHO, and ILO source series rather than a jointly reconciled OECD dataset - still official, but with less cross-checking between agencies than an OECD member gets. Because output and income figures are converted at market exchange rates into current dollars, they can swing with currency movements independent of any real change in living standards, and for a small economy like this one that swing shows up more visibly in the headline numbers than it would for a larger country. The fuller picture comes from comparing Barbados against income-tier peers of a similar size.
Barbados clears the upper third of the GDP/cap roster (#59 of 214) under HIC with a LONG life-expectancy stamp.
In Latin America & Caribbean, Barbados's 282.5K residents produce $7.6 billion of GDP (163rd worldwide) at $26,897 per person. Life expectancy 76.3 years (96th) stamps LONG. The 37-series panel below is the working surface - not a restated national brochure.
Nearest ABS GDP/cap peer: Slovak Republic at $25,993 (Δ $905). Open that profile or the GDP/cap leaderboard before treating any single year as destiny.
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Source: World Bank Open Data, Source: WHO Global Health Observatory, Source: ILO ILOSTAT. World Bank and ILO data licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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