Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 282,623 (2025)
- Area
- 431 km²
- Currency
- Barbadian dollar (BBD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +1-246
- Internet domain
- .bb
- ISO codes
- BB, BRB, 052
- Time zone
- UTC-4:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- BB##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Barbados covers about 431 square kilometres. By area it ranks 207th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Antigua and Barbuda and a little larger than Heard Island and McDonald Islands. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 13° north, 60° west, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 282,623 people live in Barbados (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 183rd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 656 people to each square kilometre. About 60 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 76 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from Barbados is called Barbadian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Barbadian dollar (code BBD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 8.02 billion (2025), which is about US$ 28,365 for each person (2025).
Time
Barbados uses one time zone, UTC-4:00 (America/Barbados). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Bridgetown | 98,511 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Cuba. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.