Barbados vs Canada: Economic Indicators Comparison

Canada with a GDP of $1.7T ranked the 10th largest economy in the world, while Barbados ranked 157th with $5.1B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Canada and Barbados ranked 133rd vs 159th and 21st vs 50th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Barbados	Canada
GDP	$5.1B	$1.7T
GDP growth, 1 year	-0.5%	1.8%
GDP growth, 5-years average	0.7%	1.9%
Population	286k	37.9M
GDP per capita	$18k	$46k
GDP per capita growth	-0.64%	0.47%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	1.93	1.24
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.97	0.96
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$19k	$50k
GNI, Atlas method	$4.4B	$1.7T
GNI per capita	$15k	$45k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$4.7B	$1.8T
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$16k	$48k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Barbados	Canada
Income Tax Rate	40%	33%
Corporate Tax Rate	5.5%	15%
Inflation, consumer prices	3.6%	0.9%
Inflation, GDP deflator	3.6%	1.9%
Unemployment	9.6%	5.9%
Economic Freedom Index	61.4	78.2
Personal Freedom Index	8.22	9.26
Human Freedom Index	7.21	8.69
Property Rights Index	56.6	87.7
Judical Effectiveness Index	36.1	72.7
Business Freedom Index	69.4	81.7
Fiscal Health Index	63.1	83.3
Labor Freedom Index	60	72
Investment Freedom Index	70	80
Financial Freedom Index	60	80
Trade Freedom Index	56.6	87
Monetary Freedom Index	77.9	76
Government Spending Index	69.2	50.9
Tax Burden Index	73.6	76.5
Government Integrity Index	44	90.3
Corruption Perceptions Index	68	81
Life expectancy at birth, years	79	82.2
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	0.8	12.5
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	5.6	5.8
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	10.5	1.8
International tourism, number of arrivals	680k	21.1M

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Barbados	Canada
Central government debt, % of GDP	124.5%	90.6%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	N/A
External debt stocks	N/A	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-6.8%	6.5%
Gross savings, % of GDP	-0.5%	19.7%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	11.3%	23.1%
Total reserves including gold	$431.8M	$83.9B
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$195.1M	$46.5B

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Barbados	Canada
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	42%	32.1%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	40.9%	34.1%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$248.2M	-$45.3B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	26.7%	18.1%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$13.8M	N/A
Personal remittances received	$108.3M	$1.4B
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	14%	24.8%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	1.3%	1.7%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$12.1M	$11.8B
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$33.4M	$4.8B
Expense, % of GDP	35.2%	17.3%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	32%	40.5%