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Barbados

282,623

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+1562024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+7.8%from 262.06K
Life expectancy76.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.71births per woman · 2024
Urban population59.7%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Barbados is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1417.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+17.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate10.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+0.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-87net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Barbados look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 264.22K in 2050—6.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024282.47K
  2. 2050264.22K
  3. 2100194.7K
Median age in 205044.3years
Births in 20502.48Kduring the year
Deaths in 20503.62Kduring the year
Life expectancy80.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960230.89K
  2. 1970249.39K
  3. 1980251.52K
  4. 1990258.58K
  5. 2000262.06K
  6. 2010275.24K
  7. 2020281.7K
  8. 2025282.62K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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