The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: NA%

      highest 10%: NA%

      Public debt:

      NA (2009)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      5.5% (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 151

      Central bank discount rate:

      7% (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 45 10% (31 December 2008)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      9.25% (31 December 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 91 10.03% (31 December 2008 est.)

      Stock of narrow money:

      $1.793 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 123 $1.748 billion (31 December 2008)

      Stock of broad money:

      $4.563 billion (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 124 $4.618 billion (31 December 2008)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $4.554 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 111 $4.124 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA (31 December 2009) country comparison to the world: 81 $4.964 billion (31 December 2008)

      $5.599 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      sugarcane, vegetables, cotton

      Industries:

      tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export

      Industrial production growth rate:

      −3.2% (2000 est.) country comparison to the world: 163

      Electricity - production:

      1.003 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 145

      Electricity - consumption:

      939.9 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 146

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Oil - production:

      765 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 107

      Oil - consumption:

      9,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 151

      Oil - exports:

      1,750 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 117

      Oil - imports:

      10,390 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 138

      Oil - proved reserves:

      1.79 million bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 96

      Natural gas - production:

      29.17 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 87

      Natural gas - consumption:

      29.17 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 110

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 49

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 74

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      113.3 million cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 101

      Current account balance:

      -$254 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 94

      Exports:

      $385 million (2006) country comparison to the world: 172

      Exports - commodities:

      manufactures, sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components

      Exports - partners:

      Trinidad and Tobago 17.48%, Jamaica 15.63%, US 8.93%, Saint Lucia 8.13%, UK 5.36%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5.04%, Antigua and Barbuda 4.12% (2009)

      Imports:

      $1.586 billion (2006) country comparison to the world: 159

      Imports - commodities:

      consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components

      Imports - partners:

      Trinidad and Tobago 28.52%, US 27.96%, Colombia 7.13%, China 4.76%,

       UK 4.39% (2009)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $620 million (2007) country comparison to the world: 117

      Debt - external:

      $668 million (2003) country comparison to the world: 155

      Exchange rates:

      Barbadian dollars (BBD) per US dollar - NA (2007), 2 (2006), 2 (2005), 2 (2004), 2 (2003)

      Communications ::Barbados

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      135,700 (2009) country comparison to the world: 136

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      337,100 (2009) country comparison to the world: 168

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: island-wide automatic telephone system

      domestic: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density approaching 125 per 100 persons

      international: country code - 1–246; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 1 (Intelsat -Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia (2009)

      Broadcast media:

      government-owned Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) operates the lone terrestrial television station; CBC also operates a multi-channel cable TV subscription service; roughly a dozen radio stations, consisting of a CBC-operated network alongside privately-owned radio stations, in operation (2007)

      Internet country code:

      .bb

      Internet hosts:

      1,508 (2010) country comparison to the world: 159

      Internet users:

      188,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 143

      Transportation ::Barbados

      Airports:

      1 (2010) country comparison to the world: 233

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 1

      over 3,047 m: 1 (2010)

      Roadways:

      total: 1,600 km country comparison to the world: 176 paved: 1,600 km (2004)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 95 country comparison to the world: 52 by type: bulk carrier 19, cargo 55, chemical tanker 9, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker