World population/Barbados
North America
Population of Barbados
282,728
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#187
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+0.02%
yearly change
+61
people this year
3,107
births a year
2,936
deaths a year
How the figure for Barbados is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Barbados at 282,728 on 1 July 2026, and projects 282,789 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Barbados at number 187 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 3,107 births and 2,936 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.