Barbados

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Barbados. Barbados is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 59.7°W to 59.4°W and 13.0°N to 13.4°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Barbados is filled. No other country reaches this view. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Barbados. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 13.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 59.7°W–59.4°W, 13.0°N–13.4°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Barbados. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    1 source from Barbadosin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

    • Barbados Today

    sources not yet assessed

  2. Official alerts

    no source connectedAletheia's alerts screen has no entry for this country, so no official warning source is connected here. That is a limit on our coverage, not a statement that this country issues no warnings.

  3. National legislature

    Parliament of Barbados ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Bridgetown

    29°C / 85°FPartly cloudywind 13 km/h / 8 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Bridgetown, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:47 AM · sunset 5:55 PM12h 08m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    BRBuncited
    Driving side
    leftuncited
    Mains voltage
    115 Vuncited
    Capital
    Bridgetownuncited
    Official languages
    Bajan Creole, Englishuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    gov.bb ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Barbados: the UN's 2025 estimate is 282,623 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 156 more a year. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    282,623 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    282,467 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 156 more a year (156 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    282,6232025
    GDP
    8,016,550,0002025
    GDP per capita
    28,3652025
    Life expectancy at birth
    76.3 years2024
    Exports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.
    Imports
    Not publishedThe source publishes no figure for this country. That is missing data, not a zero.

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    Brilliant Barbados
    the state's official mottovia Wikidata (CC0)

    Also recorded in Bulgarian, Vietnamese and Welsh.

    Founded
    1966
    National anthem
    National Anthem of Barbados

    Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    1 World Heritage Site

    1. Garrison Historic Area · inscribed 2011

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 211listed as: police
    • 311listed as: fire department
    • 511listed as: emergency medical services
    • 911

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    BBD

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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