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	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1966 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bridgetown	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Barbados	United States
Population:	287,371	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	668.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 78 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 39.5 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	10.60 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	9.13 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Barbados	United States
Political stability:	72	63
Civil rights:	72	81
Health:	80	71
Climate:	81	66
Cost of Living:	27	38
Popularity:	31	67

Economy

	Barbados	United States
Currency:	Barbadian Dollar (1 BBD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.4 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.10 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	121.50 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	35.60 %	36.60 %
Average income:	14,350 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	65 (moderate)	67 (moderate)

	BRB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,418 M US$	15.37 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	4,125 M US$	14.35 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	2,391 M US$	8.32 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	2,225 M US$	7.74 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	BRB: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,700 km	5.92 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Harbours:	165	0.574	3,627	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	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	1.01 bn kWh	3.51 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	1.25 m t	4,349.78 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 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:	128,043	446	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	329,326	1146	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	1,524	5	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	234,957	818	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	128,000	445	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Barbados	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	5.97	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.49	2.59
Diabetes:	13.4 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.34 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	100.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	8.5 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Barbados and United States

	Barbados	United States
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	24.3 °C	7.1 °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 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
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 %