Dealing with construction … Score 0-15 Building control in Barbados
Barbados: Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index was 43.33 in 2019. ▬ Flat
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Barbados, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
The most recent figure for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Barbados is 43.33, measured in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Barbados ranks 160th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Barbados, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 43.33 | — |
| 2015 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
Barbados compared with similar countries
- Barbados's 43.33 is below the median for high income countries, which is 80, 54% of the median. (62 countries reporting)
- Barbados's 43.33 is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 60, 72% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Barbados
More private sector data for Barbados
- Merchandise trade 33.1% (2025)
- Food imports 22.7% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 52.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 2.23 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 43.5% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 39.9% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 428.00 million current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 1,514 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0534 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -7.16 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Barbados?
- Dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Barbados was 43.33 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Barbados?
- The highest recorded value was 43.33 in 2014.
- What is the lowest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Barbados?
- The lowest recorded value was 43.33 in 2014.
- How does Barbados rank for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index?
- Barbados ranks 160th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index rising or falling in Barbados?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Barbados data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index (0-15) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the building quality control index benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.