ACOG - Barbados  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela

Area:
total area: 430 sq km
land area: 430 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 97 km


People

Population: 256,395 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 24% (female 30,175; male 31,507)
15-64 years: 66% (female 86,103; male 82,727)
65 years and over: 10% (female 15,849; male 10,034)

Population growth rate: 0.24% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 15.45 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 8.27 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -4.82 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 19.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.16 years
male: 71.47 years
female: 77.06 years

Total fertility rate: 1.78 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: African 80%, European 4%, other 16%

Religions: Protestant 67% (Anglican 40%, Pentecostal 8%, Methodist 7%, other 12%), Roman Catholic 4%, none 17%, unknown 3%, other 9% (1980)

Languages: English

Literacy: age 15 and over has ever attended school (1970)
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Barbados

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Bridgetown

Independence: 30 November 1966 (from UK)

Constitution: 30 November 1966


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $2.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 3%

National product per capita: $9,200

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2%

Unemployment rate: 20.5%

Electricity:
capacity: 152,100 kW
production: 510 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,841 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).