Barbados

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
286,388 1
Urban
31.10% 1
Rural
68.90% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
12.1% 2
Homicides
10.91 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
31 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
28 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
1.80 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.30% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
76 years 6
Internet Users
77% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$15,310 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
10,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
3.50
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
28
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
3
First Communions per Year
58
Confirmations per Year
62
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
207
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
202
Church Marriages per Year
13
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
8
Priests
13
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
10
Catholics per Priest
769
Parishes
7