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Barbados

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Barbados is a country. The capital city is Bridgetown, located in the Caribbean region of Americas. It has a land area of 430 km², a population of 282,336 people and uses the currency Barbados dollar. The Prime Minister is Mia Mottley.

Key facts

currency: Barbados dollar
capital city: Bridgetown
region: Caribbean
continent: Americas
land area: 430 km²
population: 282,336 people
political leader: Mia Mottley (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 133.20 % of GDP
expense: 30.65 % of GDP
GDP: 6,720,733,200.00 current US$
inflation: 9.79 annual %
self-employed workers: 20.46 % of total employment
tax revenue: 24.91 % of GDP
unemployment: 7.88 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 20.00 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 1,000 people
democracy score: 0.00
democracy type: Unknown
individuals using the Internet: 80.00 % of population
net migration: -80 people
press freedom: 0.00
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 26.67 %
birth rate: 10.78 per 1,000 people
death rate: 9.11 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 1,400.44 current US$
health expenditure: 8.09 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.21 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 5.66 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 78
suicide mortality rate: 0.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 100.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.80 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
fertility rate: 1.63 births per woman
forest area: 63 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 0.00 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 0.99 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 34.90
methane emissions: 0.16 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.04 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 146,972 people
male population: 135,364 people
renewable energy consumption: 5.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 248.53 km²
rural population: 193,612 people
urban land area: 187.59 km²
urban population: 88,724 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.85 % of total population

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Location on a map: 13°16′N, -59°53′W

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Barbados is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Caribbean and 194 countries in our database.

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