International Rankings of Barbados 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Barbados, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Barbados, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	8	45.00	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	127	128000	2020
Internet users - percent of population	22	86.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	175	240800	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	17	43.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	132	121314	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	48	113.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	178	316633	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	162	1.483 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget - revenues	159	1.271 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	67	4.00 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	108	296.396 million US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	139	4.490 billion US Dollars	2010
Exchange rates	127	2.00	N/A
Exports	195	357.000 million US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	167	4.990 billion US Dollars	2017
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	109	31.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	97	13.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	23	84.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	99	47.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	104	17.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	54	0.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	136	1.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	163	9.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	10	88.70 % of GDP	2017
Imports	173	2.120 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	154	0.60 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	80	4.10 %	2019
Labor force	179	139100 US Dollars	2021
Public debt	5	146.93 % of GDP	2016
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	185	3.868 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	175	0.19 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	105	13800 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	96	2	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	134	1.673 billion US Dollars	2021
Taxes and other revenues	34	27.48 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	64	10.41 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	64	25.60 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	18	34.80 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	32	30.60 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from consumed natural gas	118	41000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	161	1.662 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	163	1.703 million	2019
Electricity - consumption	159	1.000 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	159	311000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	179	20.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	20	95.90 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	32	4.10 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	68	83.723 million Btu/person	2019
Natural gas - consumption	116	20.954 million cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - imports	85	6.031 million cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - production	91	14.923 million cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - proven reserves	91	113.000 million cubic meters	2021
Petroleum - crude oil and lease condensate exports	69	700 bbl/day	2018
Petroleum - crude oil estimated reserves	85	2.000 million bbl/day	2021
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	156	10800 bbl/day	2019
Petroleum - total petroleum production	98	1000 bbl/day	2021
Refined petroleum products - imports	148	10630 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	151	1 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	142	2 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	149	10 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	112	33	2018
Land use - arable land	36	26	2018
Land use - forest	124	19	2018
Land use - permanent crops	63	2	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	134	5	2018
Total renewable water resources	172	80.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	130	5.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	95	10.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	111	20.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	142	0.46	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	155	31	2023
Geography
Area - land	201	430 sq km	N/A
Area - total	204	430 sq km	N/A
Coastline	157	97 km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	167	336 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	141	50 sq km	2012
Land use - agricultural land	112	33	2018
Land use - arable land	36	26	2018
Land use - forest	124	19	2018
Land use - permanent crops	63	2	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	134	5	2018
Population Density	17	705.65 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	42	1 % of GDP	2022
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	37	4 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - spirits	6	5 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	21	10 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - wine	46	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	126	10.70 births/1,000 population	2023
Contraceptive prevalence rate	52	59.20 %	2012
Current health expenditure	47	7 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	78	57 %	2023
Death rate	48	8.00 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	46	23.40 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	112	4.30 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	125	49.00 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	144	25.60 %	N/A
Drinking water source - total	84	2 % of population	2020
Education expenditures	21	7 % of GDP	2021
Gross reproduction rate	85	0.85 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	118	8.20 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	116	11.30 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	118	9.80 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	41	82 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	48	76 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	42	79 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	5	100 %	2014
Literacy - male	5	100 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	5	100 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	91	39.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	43	42 years	N/A
Median age - male	40	40 years	N/A
Median age - total	36	41 years	2023
Net migration rate	61	0.30 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	56	23.10 %	2016
Physicians density	63	2.49 physicians/1,000 population	2017
Population	180	303431	2023
Population growth rate	133	0.24 %	2023
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	16	1.00 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	26	0.97 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	41	0.72 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	13	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	26	0.93 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	116	1.70 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	142	0.46	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	155	31	2023
Transportation
Airports	123	2	2024
Heliports	65	1	2024
Merchant marine - total	57	272	2023
Roadways - paved	88	1700 km	2015
Roadways - total	109	1700 km	N/A

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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