Country comparison Barbados : United States

General information

	Barbados	United States
Region:	Caribbean	North America
Area:	430 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Parliamentary democracy (under constitutional monarchy)	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1966 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Bridgetown	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Barbados	United States
Population:	287,025	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	667.5	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 78 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 36.9 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	10.62 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	9.07 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Barbados	United States
Political stability:	68	74
Civil rights:	71	83
Health:	80	74
Climate:	77	64
Cost of Living:	28	16
Popularity:	30	72

Economy

	Barbados	United States
Currency:	Barbadian Dollar (1 BBD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	12.8 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	4.10 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	134.87 %	110.95 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	35.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	17,380 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	64 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	BRB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	5,209 M US$	18.15 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	4,989 M US$	17.38 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	2,391 M US$	8.33 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	2,225 M US$	7.75 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	BRB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,700 km	5.92 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 km
Harbours:	132	0.460	3,673	0.011
Airports:	1	0.003	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BRB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	990.00 m kWh	3.45 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	1.01 bn kWh	3.52 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.28 m t	4,446.01 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 t

Telecommunication

	Barbados	United States
International dialing:	+1809	+1
Internet domain:	.bb	.us

	BRB total	BRB per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	138,312	482	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	311,734	1086	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	1,524	5	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	234,674	818	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Barbados	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.80	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.49	2.59
Diabetes:	13.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.34 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	8.7 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Barbados and United States

	Barbados	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.3 °C	7.3 °C
Rain days:	12.0	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	8.1	7.2

Native languages

	Barbados	United States
Bajan:	95.1 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	4.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Barbados	United States
Christianity:	75.5 %	78.5 %
nondenominational:	20.6 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Rastafari:	1.0 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	2.9 %	15.3 %