Barbados vs Curaçao

Barbados and Curaçao compared on 8 key figures from official sources. Each value is the latest one published for that country, so the year is shown with it.

• Barbados has about 1.8 times as many people as Curaçao: 282,623 against 156,263 in 2025.
• GDP per person in Barbados ($28,365 in 2025) is 24% higher than in Curaçao ($22,833 in 2024).
• The economy grew faster in Curaçao (5% in 2024) than in Barbados (2.7% in 2025), a difference of 2.3 percentage points.
• Consumer prices rose faster in Curaçao (2.6% in 2019) than in Barbados (0.8% in 2025), a difference of 1.8 percentage points.
• A baby born in Curaçao can expect to live 0.7 years longer than one born in Barbados: 77 years against 76.3 years in 2024.
• The population of Barbados is older: half of its people are over 38.9 years, against 38.2 years in Curaçao in 2023.
• A larger share of people used the internet in Barbados (70.4% in 2024) than in Curaçao (68.1% in 2017), a difference of 2.3 percentage points.
• Forest covers a larger share of the land in Barbados (14.6%) than in Curaçao (0.2%), a difference of 14.4 percentage points in 2024.