Barbados vs Lower middle income: Travel services (% of commercial service exports)
Travel services (% of commercial service exports) over time
- Barbados
- Lower middle income
How they compare
Barbados currently reports 72.0% against 17.8% in Lower middle income, a difference of 54.2%.
That makes Barbados's figure about 4.0 times Lower middle income's.
Across all 42 years both countries report, Barbados has been ahead every year.
Barbados ranks 38th and Lower middle income ranks 38th of 198 countries.
Barbados has averaged higher in every one of the 5 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Barbados | Lower middle income | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 78.9% | 34.5% | 44.5% | Barbados |
| 1980s | 78.5% | 33.8% | 44.7% | Barbados |
| 1990s | 76.8% | 32.3% | 44.4% | Barbados |
| 2000s | 76.2% | 26.4% | 49.8% | Barbados |
| 2010s | 72.8% | 28.2% | 44.6% | Barbados |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher travel services, Barbados or Lower middle income?
- Barbados, at 72.0% against 17.8% in Lower middle income as of 2017.
- What is the difference in travel services between Barbados and Lower middle income?
- 54.2%, with Barbados ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Barbados and Lower middle income?
- 42 years are reported by both, from 1976 to 2017.
- How do Barbados and Lower middle income rank globally for travel services?
- Barbados ranks 38th and Lower middle income ranks 38th of 198 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF), published as Travel services (% of commercial service exports). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Travel services cover goods and services for own use or to give away acquired from an economy by nonresidents during visits to that economy, or acquired from other economies by residents during visits to these other economies. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service exports which are commercial services provided by residents to non-residents.