If you lived in Barbados instead of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, you would:

Health

be 26.7% less likely to be living with HIV/AIDS

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 1.5% of people are living with AIDS/HIV as of 2018. In Barbados, that number is 1.1% of people as of 2019.

live 1.9 years longer

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the average life expectancy is 77 years (75 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2022. In Barbados, that number is 79 years (76 years for men, 81 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

be 46.3% less likely to be unemployed

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 18.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2008. In Barbados, that number is 10.1% as of 2017.

Life

be 72.4% less likely to die during childbirth

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 98.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2017. In Barbados, 27.0 women do as of 2017.

be 25.4% less likely to die during infancy

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 12.9 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.

have 11.7% fewer children

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, there are approximately 12.3 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Barbados, there are 10.8 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 3.7 times more likely to have internet access

In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, approximately 22.0% of the population has internet access as of 2020. In Barbados, about 82.0% do as of 2019.

Expenditures

spend 24.6% less on education

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spends 5.7% of its total GDP on education as of 2018. Barbados spends 4.3% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

spend 31.2% more on healthcare

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines spends 4.8% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2019. In Barbados, that number is 6.3% of GDP as of 2019.

Geography

see 15.5% more coastline

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has a total of 84 km of coastline. In Barbados, that number is 97 km.


The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

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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