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Population in Barbados compared to Spain: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Barbados was 282,467 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Barbados' population is 282,698 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 172.6 times bigger than Barbados'.
  • Barbados is ranked the 175th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 0.59% of the world: 0.003% for Barbados vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Barbados has had an average growth rate of +0.16% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Barbados has increased from 269K people to 283K (5.21% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Barbados is projected to reach its peak in 2028 at 283K people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Barbados vs Spain: live population counter

Barbados Spain
Current population
282698
48786181
Population rank 175/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.003% 0.59%
One net population change
2.79 days
1.14 minutes
One birth every
2.78 hours
1.62 minutes
One death every
2.92 hours
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
5.21 days
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change -70 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +0 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +131 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +0.05% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 164/197 108/197

Barbados and Spain: population history and growth rate by year chart

Barbados
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Barbados Spain Barbados Spain
1960 230,893 30,455,000 - -
1961 233,148 30,739,250 0.98% 0.93%
1962 235,224 31,023,366 0.89% 0.92%
1963 237,557 31,296,651 0.99% 0.88%
1964 239,958 31,609,195 1.01% 1%
1965 242,417 31,954,292 1.02% 1.09%
1966 244,996 32,283,194 1.06% 1.03%
1967 247,091 32,682,947 0.86% 1.24%
1968 248,540 33,113,134 0.59% 1.32%
1969 249,444 33,441,054 0.36% 0.99%
1970 249,387 33,814,531 -0.02% 1.12%
1971 249,168 34,224,490 -0.09% 1.21%
1972 249,658 34,604,469 0.2% 1.11%
1973 250,322 34,988,947 0.27% 1.11%
1974 250,777 35,373,335 0.18% 1.1%
1975 251,175 35,757,900 0.16% 1.09%
1976 251,442 36,137,812 0.11% 1.06%
1977 251,626 36,511,638 0.07% 1.03%
1978 251,551 36,864,898 -0.03% 0.97%
1979 251,269 37,191,330 -0.11% 0.89%
1980 251,524 37,491,165 0.1% 0.81%
1981 252,270 37,758,631 0.3% 0.71%
1982 253,095 37,986,012 0.33% 0.6%
1983 253,992 38,171,525 0.35% 0.49%
1984 254,920 38,330,364 0.37% 0.42%
1985 255,820 38,469,512 0.35% 0.36%
1986 256,618 38,584,624 0.31% 0.3%
1987 257,279 38,684,815 0.26% 0.26%
1988 257,763 38,766,939 0.19% 0.21%
1989 258,109 38,827,764 0.13% 0.16%
1990 258,582 38,867,322 0.18% 0.1%
1991 259,373 38,966,376 0.31% 0.25%
1992 260,267 39,157,685 0.34% 0.49%
1993 261,027 39,361,262 0.29% 0.52%
1994 261,620 39,549,108 0.23% 0.48%
1995 262,039 39,724,050 0.16% 0.44%
1996 262,284 39,889,852 0.09% 0.42%
1997 262,392 40,057,389 0.04% 0.42%
1998 262,436 40,223,509 0.02% 0.41%
1999 262,517 40,386,875 0.03% 0.41%
2000 262,063 40,567,864 -0.17% 0.45%
2001 262,425 40,850,412 0.14% 0.7%
2002 264,148 41,431,558 0.66% 1.42%
2003 265,776 42,187,645 0.62% 1.82%
2004 267,298 42,921,895 0.57% 1.74%
2005 268,706 43,653,155 0.53% 1.7%
2006 270,002 44,397,319 0.48% 1.7%
2007 271,288 45,226,803 0.48% 1.87%
2008 272,714 45,954,106 0.53% 1.61%
2009 274,123 46,362,946 0.52% 0.89%
2010 275,243 46,576,897 0.41% 0.46%
2011 276,139 46,742,697 0.33% 0.36%
2012 276,938 46,773,055 0.29% 0.06%
2013 277,665 46,604,197 0.26% -0.36%
2014 278,348 46,460,733 0.25% -0.31%
2015 278,990 46,422,303 0.23% -0.08%
2016 279,598 46,458,139 0.22% 0.08%
2017 280,171 46,571,232 0.2% 0.24%
2018 280,711 46,782,011 0.19% 0.45%
2019 281,207 47,118,501 0.18% 0.72%
2020 281,698 47,359,424 0.17% 0.51%
2021 282,147 47,443,821 0.16% 0.18%
2022 282,318 47,786,102 0.06% 0.72%
2023 282,336 48,347,910 0.006% 1.18%
2024 282,467 48,807,137 0.05% 0.95%
2025 282,618 48,786,181 0.05% -0.04%
2026 282,718 48,746,279 0.04% -0.08%
2027 282,779 48,696,847 0.02% -0.1%
2028 282,792 48,642,132 0.005% -0.11%
2029 282,689 48,578,166 -0.04% -0.13%
2030 282,486 48,501,513 -0.07% -0.16%
2031 282,203 48,412,854 -0.1% -0.18%
2032 281,846 48,321,195 -0.13% -0.19%
2033 281,402 48,230,054 -0.16% -0.19%
2034 280,904 48,136,421 -0.18% -0.19%
2035 280,344 48,036,650 -0.2% -0.21%
2036 279,697 47,929,957 -0.23% -0.22%
2037 278,962 47,819,257 -0.26% -0.23%
2038 278,147 47,706,580 -0.29% -0.24%
2039 277,276 47,588,878 -0.31% -0.25%
2040 276,345 47,463,597 -0.34% -0.26%
2041 275,351 47,332,618 -0.36% -0.28%
2042 274,293 47,194,588 -0.38% -0.29%
2043 273,145 47,052,293 -0.42% -0.3%
2044 271,954 46,902,636 -0.44% -0.32%
2045 270,773 46,738,565 -0.43% -0.35%
2046 269,533 46,564,383 -0.46% -0.37%
2047 268,224 46,381,681 -0.49% -0.39%
2048 266,887 46,190,642 -0.5% -0.41%
2049 265,548 45,985,428 -0.5% -0.44%
2050 264,216 45,769,362 -0.5% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Barbados increased by 10,284 people (a 3.83% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Barbados gained 3,708 (a 1.33% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Barbados was ranked 174th most populous country in 2005 and is 175th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Barbados' population will shrink by 6.54% to 264,216 people with a rank change from 175th to 177th. The population of Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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