BARBADOS:  Some basic figures
A. Socio-Economic indicators:	1990		2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Population	268,000		268,204	268,881	269,556	270,043
GDP (US$ billions)	2.8		2.6	2.8	3.1	3.3
GDP per capita (US$)	8,304		9,708	10,401	11,465	12,220
Total external debt (US $ million)			721.21	702.523	660.02
Total debt service (as % of GDP)	8.2		3.2	3.1	3.1
Total debt service (as % of exports of goods & services)	14.6		5.6	5.5	4.7
Rate of unemployment (%): 1996-2005			9.8	9.8	9.8
Rate of inflation (%)			6	6	6
Life expectancy at birth (years)	75.1		75	75.3	76.6
% Adult Literary rate (age 15+)	99.4		99.7
% people living below $1 a day (1990-2004)
Prevalence of HIV (% of population aged 15-49)			2.5		1.5
Public expenditure on education (% of GDP)	7.8		7.6	7.3	6.9
Public expenditure on health (% of GDP)	4.7		4.8	4.5
Private expenditure on health (% of GDP)			2.1
Military expenditure (% of GDP)	0.8				0.8
Total Net Official Development Assistance (US$ million)	2.63		19.74	28.81	-2.15	-0.55
Foreign Direct Investment (US$ million)			58.25		61.95
Workers' remittances & compensation of employees (US $ million)			114.0	109.0	140.0	140.0
B. Other Key Indicators/Indices & Rank
Human Development Index (rank among countries)*	20		30	31	31
Overall Economic Freedom Index (rank among countries)			23	28	24	20	27
Fiscal Freedom (scale 0 to 100)**			60.4	59.8	60.6	67.4	67.4
Investment Freedom (scale 0 to 100)**			50	50	50	50	50
Freedom from corruption (scale 0 to 100)**			70	70	70	73	69
Corruption Perception Index (rank among countries)***				21	24	24	23
Footnotes:
* Among 173 in 1990, and 177 countries for the years 2003-2005
** 100 represents the maximum freedom
*** Ranking among 179 countries with 1 being the least corrupt and 179 the most corrupt
Sources:
http://stats.oecd.org/
http://www.heritage.org/
http://www.transparency.org/
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
http://www.worldbank.org