Political Stability - Governance score in Barbados

Barbados: Political Stability - Governance score was 87.63 0-100 in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
87.63 0-100
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
10th
of 207 countries
All-time high
88.75 0-100
in 2014
All-time low
79.02 0-100
in 2003
Years of data
26
1996–2024

Political Stability - Governance score in Barbados, 1996–2024

0204060801996201020241996: 81 0-1001998: 81 0-1002000: 81 0-1002002: 81 0-1002003: 79 0-1002004: 82.2 0-1002005: 84.3 0-1002006: 81.9 0-1002007: 84.5 0-1002008: 85.7 0-1002009: 87.8 0-1002010: 86.1 0-1002011: 85.9 0-1002012: 87 0-1002013: 86.7 0-1002014: 88.8 0-1002015: 85.2 0-1002016: 80.2 0-1002017: 80.2 0-1002018: 79.6 0-1002019: 82.6 0-1002020: 84.1 0-1002021: 84.4 0-1002022: 86.5 0-1002023: 87.7 0-1002024: 87.6 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

Barbados recorded 87.63 0-100 for political stability - governance score in 2024.

That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and down 1.3% over ten years.

Over the whole period, political stability - governance score in Barbados peaked at 88.75 0-100 in 2014 and was at its lowest, 79.02 0-100, in 2003.

Barbados ranks 10th of 207 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.

Political Stability - Governance score in Barbados, year by year

Annual values for Political Stability - Governance score (0-100) in Barbados, 1996 to 2024.
Year 0-100 Change
1996 81.02 0-100
1998 81.03 0-100 +0.0%
2000 81 0-100 -0.0%
2002 81.02 0-100 +0.0%
2003 79.02 0-100 -2.5%
2004 82.23 0-100 +4.1%
2005 84.27 0-100 +2.5%
2006 81.9 0-100 -2.8%
2007 84.47 0-100 +3.1%
2008 85.73 0-100 +1.5%
2009 87.76 0-100 +2.4%
2010 86.08 0-100 -1.9%
2011 85.95 0-100 -0.2%
2012 86.99 0-100 +1.2%
2013 86.67 0-100 -0.4%
2014 88.75 0-100 +2.4%
2015 85.18 0-100 -4.0%
2016 80.24 0-100 -5.8%
2017 80.24 0-100 +0.0%
2018 79.56 0-100 -0.8%
2019 82.56 0-100 +3.8%
2020 84.14 0-100 +1.9%
2021 84.42 0-100 +0.3%
2022 86.51 0-100 +2.5%
2023 87.7 0-100 +1.4%
2024 87.63 0-100 -0.1%

Barbados compared with similar countries

  • Barbados's 87.63 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 79.03 0-100, 1.1× the median. (75 countries reporting)
  • Barbados's 87.63 0-100 is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 72.04 0-100, 1.2× the median. (37 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 81.03 0-100 81.02 0-100 81.03 0-100 2
2000s 83.04 0-100 79.02 0-100 87.76 0-100 9
2010s 84.22 0-100 79.56 0-100 88.75 0-100 10
2020s 86.08 0-100 84.14 0-100 87.7 0-100 5

Countries ranked near Barbados

  1. 7 Aruba 88.62 0-100 compare
  2. 8 Uruguay 87.72 0-100 compare
  3. 9 Marshall Islands 87.71 0-100 compare
  4. 11 Tonga 87.33 0-100 compare
  5. 12 American Samoa 87.3 0-100 compare
  6. 13 Greenland 87.08 0-100 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is political stability - governance score in Barbados?
Political stability - governance score in Barbados was 87.63 0-100 in 2024, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
What is the highest political stability - governance score recorded in Barbados?
The highest recorded value was 88.75 0-100 in 2014.
What is the lowest political stability - governance score recorded in Barbados?
The lowest recorded value was 79.02 0-100 in 2003.
How does Barbados rank for political stability - governance score?
Barbados ranks 10th out of 207 countries with data for 2024.
Is political stability - governance score rising or falling in Barbados?
Over the last ten years it is down 1.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Barbados data come from?
The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Political Stability - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Political Stability - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
207 places, 5,252 data points, 1996–2024
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Political Stability (PV) captures perceptions of the extent to which political power and governance are secure from destabilization, and of the likelihood that authority will be challenged or altered through violent, coercive, or unconstitutional means. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).