Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Barbados instead of Aruba, you would:

Economy

pay a 43.2% lower top tax rate

Aruba has a top tax rate of 59.0% as of 2016. In Barbados, the top tax rate is 33.5% as of 2016.

make 66.4% less money

Aruba has a GDP per capita of $38,442 as of 2017, while in Barbados, the GDP per capita is $12,900 as of 2020.

be 31.2% more likely to be unemployed

In Aruba, 7.7% of adults are unemployed as of 2016. In Barbados, that number is 10.1% as of 2017.

Life

be 20.6% less likely to die during infancy

In Aruba, approximately 12.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Barbados, on the other hand, 9.6 children do as of 2020.

Basic Needs

be 15.5% less likely to have internet access

In Aruba, approximately 97.0% of the population has internet access as of 2019. In Barbados, about 82.0% do as of 2019.

Expenditures

spend 21.8% less on education

Aruba spends 5.5% of its total GDP on education as of 2016. Barbados spends 4.3% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 41.6% more coastline

Aruba has a total of 68 km of coastline. In Barbados, that number is 97 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook, Ministry of Finance, Barbados, Ministerio di Finansas, Comunicacion, Utilidad y Energia.

Barbados: At a glance

Barbados is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 430 sq km. The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. African slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from the UK in 1966. In the 1990s, tourism and manufacturing surpassed the sugar industry in economic importance.
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