🇧🇧Barbados

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Population

282.6K

0.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.71

births/woman

Life Expectancy

76.3y

GDP / capita

$28.4K

Pop. Growth

0.06%

Net Migration

-87

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Barbados by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇬🇾Guyana6.7K(32.4%)

+7%

🇻🇨St. Vincent and the Grenadines3.2K(15.3%)

+7%

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male135.5KTotal 282.6K147.1KFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

7.4

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇱🇨St. Lucia2.2K(10.7%)

+7%

🇺🇸United States1.1K(5.1%)

+7%

🇯🇲Jamaica1K(4.9%)

+7%

🇨🇦Canada701(3.4%)

+7%

🇮🇳India471(2.3%)

+7%

🇬🇩Grenada395(1.9%)

+6%

🇩🇲Dominica342(1.6%)

+7%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Barbados diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Barbados who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇦Canada13K(66.6%)

−17%

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago1.7K(8.7%)

+66%

🇯🇲Jamaica550(2.8%)

+1%

🇦🇺Australia408(2.1%)

−5%

🇱🇨St. Lucia390(2.0%)

−11%

🇻🇮Virgin Islands (U.S.)367(1.9%)

−0%

🇻🇨St. Vincent and the Grenadines361(1.8%)

+4%

🇨🇱Chile341(1.7%)

+332%

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda327(1.7%)

+15%

🇨🇼Curacao311(1.6%)

+76%

🇬🇾Guyana273(1.4%)

+92%

🇧🇸Bahamas, The268(1.4%)

+22%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024