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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Barbados was 282,467 in 2024 vs 50,015,092 people in Uganda in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Barbados' population is 282,698 people compared to 52,490,669 in Uganda.

Population statistics:

  • Uganda's population is 185.7 times bigger than Barbados'.
  • Barbados is ranked the 175th most populous country in the world, while Uganda is the 30th.
  • The countries together account for 0.64% of the world: 0.003% for Barbados vs 0.63% for Uganda.
  • For the last 10 years, Barbados has had an average growth rate of +0.16% per year vs +3.21% in Uganda.
  • Since 2005, the population of Barbados has increased from 269K people to 283K (5.21% growth), while Uganda has grown from 28M to 52.5M (87.7% growth).
  • Barbados is projected to reach its peak in 2028 at 283K people compared to the peak of 121M people in 2100 for Uganda.

Barbados vs Uganda: live population counter

Barbados Uganda
Current population
282698
52490669
Population rank 175/197 30/197
Percent of world population 0.003% 0.63%
One net population change
2.79 days
23.2 seconds
One birth every
2.78 hours
18.4 seconds
One death every
2.92 hours
2.23 minutes
One migration net change every
5.21 days
4.46 minutes
Annual migration change -70 -117,924
Daily growth/decline +0 +3,722
Annual growth/decline +131 +1,358,491
Annual growth/decline rate +0.05% +2.79%
Population growth rate rank 164/197 23/197

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

Barbados
Population

Growth rate
Uganda
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Barbados Uganda Barbados Uganda
1960 230,893 7,640,973 - -
1961 233,148 7,862,217 0.98% 2.9%
1962 235,224 8,092,231 0.89% 2.93%
1963 237,557 8,333,663 0.99% 2.98%
1964 239,958 8,586,363 1.01% 3.03%
1965 242,417 8,849,203 1.02% 3.06%
1966 244,996 9,122,864 1.06% 3.09%
1967 247,091 9,408,924 0.86% 3.14%
1968 248,540 9,708,632 0.59% 3.19%
1969 249,444 10,014,858 0.36% 3.15%
1970 249,387 10,321,603 -0.02% 3.06%
1971 249,168 10,618,206 -0.09% 2.87%
1972 249,658 10,885,796 0.2% 2.52%
1973 250,322 11,144,236 0.27% 2.37%
1974 250,777 11,424,846 0.18% 2.52%
1975 251,175 11,725,240 0.16% 2.63%
1976 251,442 12,037,294 0.11% 2.66%
1977 251,626 12,359,669 0.07% 2.68%
1978 251,551 12,692,113 -0.03% 2.69%
1979 251,269 13,002,163 -0.11% 2.44%
1980 251,524 13,275,741 0.1% 2.1%
1981 252,270 13,556,452 0.3% 2.11%
1982 253,095 13,873,631 0.33% 2.34%
1983 253,992 14,221,881 0.35% 2.51%
1984 254,920 14,607,677 0.37% 2.71%
1985 255,820 15,023,681 0.35% 2.85%
1986 256,618 15,467,579 0.31% 2.95%
1987 257,279 15,954,170 0.26% 3.15%
1988 257,763 16,470,483 0.19% 3.24%
1989 258,109 17,010,698 0.13% 3.28%
1990 258,582 17,569,897 0.18% 3.29%
1991 259,373 18,155,901 0.31% 3.34%
1992 260,267 18,785,032 0.34% 3.47%
1993 261,027 19,445,161 0.29% 3.51%
1994 261,620 20,108,801 0.23% 3.41%
1995 262,039 20,665,667 0.16% 2.77%
1996 262,284 21,231,550 0.09% 2.74%
1997 262,392 21,856,046 0.04% 2.94%
1998 262,436 22,515,806 0.02% 3.02%
1999 262,517 23,257,281 0.03% 3.29%
2000 262,063 24,000,150 -0.17% 3.19%
2001 262,425 24,745,676 0.14% 3.11%
2002 264,148 25,532,870 0.66% 3.18%
2003 265,776 26,352,124 0.62% 3.21%
2004 267,298 27,154,515 0.57% 3.04%
2005 268,706 27,963,289 0.53% 2.98%
2006 270,002 28,794,003 0.48% 2.97%
2007 271,288 29,653,430 0.48% 2.98%
2008 272,714 30,539,553 0.53% 2.99%
2009 274,123 31,451,151 0.52% 2.98%
2010 275,243 32,390,802 0.41% 2.99%
2011 276,139 33,354,543 0.33% 2.98%
2012 276,938 34,337,438 0.29% 2.95%
2013 277,665 35,337,042 0.26% 2.91%
2014 278,348 36,395,539 0.25% 3%
2015 278,990 37,531,446 0.23% 3.12%
2016 279,598 38,799,152 0.22% 3.38%
2017 280,171 40,177,388 0.2% 3.55%
2018 280,711 41,565,831 0.19% 3.46%
2019 281,207 42,999,637 0.18% 3.45%
2020 281,698 44,457,152 0.17% 3.39%
2021 282,147 45,910,930 0.16% 3.27%
2022 282,318 47,312,719 0.06% 3.05%
2023 282,336 48,656,601 0.006% 2.84%
2024 282,467 50,015,092 0.05% 2.79%
2025 282,618 51,384,895 0.05% 2.74%
2026 282,718 52,761,471 0.04% 2.68%
2027 282,779 54,144,274 0.02% 2.62%
2028 282,792 55,532,564 0.005% 2.56%
2029 282,689 56,922,797 -0.04% 2.5%
2030 282,486 58,312,944 -0.07% 2.44%
2031 282,203 59,703,537 -0.1% 2.38%
2032 281,846 61,089,060 -0.13% 2.32%
2033 281,402 62,464,116 -0.16% 2.25%
2034 280,904 63,833,872 -0.18% 2.19%
2035 280,344 65,205,570 -0.2% 2.15%
2036 279,697 66,573,737 -0.23% 2.1%
2037 278,962 67,942,634 -0.26% 2.06%
2038 278,147 69,312,210 -0.29% 2.02%
2039 277,276 70,669,875 -0.31% 1.96%
2040 276,345 72,020,414 -0.34% 1.91%
2041 275,351 73,372,658 -0.36% 1.88%
2042 274,293 74,730,004 -0.38% 1.85%
2043 273,145 76,090,991 -0.42% 1.82%
2044 271,954 77,449,517 -0.44% 1.79%
2045 270,773 78,797,995 -0.43% 1.74%
2046 269,533 80,139,174 -0.46% 1.7%
2047 268,224 81,478,503 -0.49% 1.67%
2048 266,887 82,812,102 -0.5% 1.64%
2049 265,548 84,130,056 -0.5% 1.59%
2050 264,216 85,431,202 -0.5% 1.55%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Barbados increased by 10,284 people (a 3.83% growth), while Uganda gained 9,568,157 people (a 34.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Barbados gained 3,708 (a 1.33% growth), while Uganda's population increased by 14,959,223 (a 39.9% growth).

Barbados was ranked 174th most populous country in 2005 and is 175th in 2025. Uganda was ranked 40th in 2005 and ranked 30th 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 Uganda will increase by 62.8% to 85,431,202 people and rank change from 30th to 20th.

Biggest cities by population

Barbados
City Population
Bridgetown 110K
Holetown 1.6K
Uganda
City Population
Kampala 1.68M
Mbale 586K
Arua 385K
Kira Town 317K
Jinja 279K
Gulu 177K
Kasese 101K
Entebbe 70K
Tororo 41.9K

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