Barbados vs Jamaica: Clientelism Index

Barbados

0.28

in 2025

Jamaica

0.297

in 2025

Barbados rank

131st

Jamaica rank

129th

Clientelism Index over time

Barbados
Jamaica

How they compare

Jamaica currently reports 0.297 against 0.28 in Barbados, a difference of 0.017.

That makes Jamaica's figure about 1.1 times Barbados's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 126 shared years of data; in 1900 it was Barbados ahead.

Barbados ranks 131st and Jamaica ranks 129th of 176 countries.

Individual pages

Clientelism Index in Barbados
Clientelism Index in Jamaica
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Clientelism Index
Source: V-Dem (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 176 places, 24,366 data points, 1789–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Composite index measuring the extent to which politics hinge on clientelistic exchanges of targeted goods, jobs, or cash for electoral support; higher values denote more pervasive clientelism.