🇧🇧 Barbados National Debt Clock
Live tracker for Barbados government debt. The national debt currently stands at approximately $8.2 billion, growing at $6 every second based on IMF fiscal deficit projections. Debt-to-GDP: 130%. Per-citizen share: $29,377.
About Barbados's National Debt
Barbados's debt-to-GDP ratio of 130% is in the critical range, significantly above IMF concern thresholds. Debt service costs consume a large share of government revenue, constraining spending on public services and investment.
At the current borrowing rate of $6 per second, Barbados adds approximately $0.0 billion to its national debt every day — around $0 billion per year. Each of Barbados's 0 million citizens carries an individual share of approximately $29,377 of the national debt.
Figures are computed by Global Debt Clock using linear extrapolation from IMF Government Finance Statistics and World Bank International Debt Statistics baseline data anchored to April 2025. Actual debt changes through discrete bond issuances — these counters illustrate the approximate scale and pace of sovereign borrowing.
Data & Citation
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook · World Bank International Debt Statistics · baseline anchored .
Methodology: debt = 8,000,000,000 + 6 × seconds_since(2025-04-01)
Machine-readable data: /api/debt?c=bb (live JSON) · /data/debt.json (full dataset)
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