12th highest population density656 per km² · #12 of 209 · 2025
16th lowest total area431 km² · #16 of 205 · 2024
14th highest hospital beds6.4 per 1,000 · #14 of 158 · 2023
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COUNTRYDUEL AMERICAS
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.
Barbados
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