Caribbean · sovereign state
Barbados
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Barbadian dollar
- People
- 282,623 (2025)
- Neighbours
- none by land
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Barbados
- 12th highest population density 657 per km² · #12 of 209 · 2025
- 16th lowest total area 430 km² · #16 of 205 · 2023
- 20th highest adult obesity 39.6% · #20 of 195 · 2024
Surprising facts about Barbados
The comparisons that stand out most against its neighbours, its region and the world median.
Picked for surprise among Barbados’s neighbours, its region and the world median.
Barbados among 213 countries & territories
Each dot shows where Barbados sits between the lowest and the highest value in the world; “See it” opens the full visual against the world median. Higher is not automatically better.
World twins
The countries most like Barbados across 12 indicators (GDP/person, Life exp., Median age, Fertility, Urban, Internet, Schooling, CO₂/person, Density, Temperature, Happiness, Obesity). Each indicator is standardised and compared by average distance; a resemblance, not a score.
Nearest countries
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vs Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 172 km
vs Saint Lucia 180 km
vs Grenada 258 km
vs Dominica 310 km
vs Trinidad and Tobago 342 km
Barbados has no land borders: these are the 5 nearest countries by distance between capitals. Equal-area map centred on Barbados.