Barbados's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) was -2.75% in 2017, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 9.79 percentage points from 7.04% in 2007.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | -2.75% | 2017 |
| Five years earlier | -3.3% | 2012 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.04% | 2007 |
| Highest | 12.5% | 1994 |
| Lowest | -5.66% | 2011 |
| Average since 2008 | -2.07% | 2008–2017 |
| First recorded | 11.79% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2017, Barbados' adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 2.29 percentage points on 2016 (from -5.04% to -2.75%).
Across the 26 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2016), the average change was −0.65 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.19 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.23 percentage points in 2007 and the biggest yearly fall was 7.42 percentage points in 1995. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2008 to 2017 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 26% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
What this measures
Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of Gross National Income (GNI) which is the total income earned by all residents within an economic territory during an accounting period. It is equal to gross domestic product plus earned income receivable from abroad minus earned income payable abroad.
Limitations: The exercise treats public education expenditures as an addition to savings. However, because of the wide variability in the effectiveness of public education expenditures, these figures cannot be construed as the value of investments in human capital. A current expenditure of $1 on education does not necessarily yield $1 of human capital. The calculation should also consider private education expenditure, but data are not available for a large number of countries. While extensive, the accounting of natural resource depletion and pollution costs still has some gaps.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 28 values
| Year | Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) |
|---|---|
| 2017 | -2.75 |
| 2016 | -5.04 |
| 2015 | -1.81 |
| 2014 | -1.41 |
| 2013 | -1.2 |
| 2012 | -3.3 |
| 2011 | -5.66 |
| 2010 | 0.1986 |
| 2009 | -0.8282 |
| 2008 | 1.13 |
| 2007 |
Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) in nearby economies
- Argentina — 11.61% (2021)
- Bahamas, The — 4.82% (2021)
- Belize — 11.99% (2021)
- Bolivia — -2.04% (2021)
- Brazil — -0.25% (2021)
- Chile — -3.74% (2021)
- Colombia — 1.6% (2021)
- Costa Rica — 16.92% (2021)
- Dominican Republic
More economic policy & debt data for Barbados
- GDP (current US$) — US$8.02 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 16.03 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$6.5 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU) — 15.34 billion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$28,365 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 56,730 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$23,014 (2025)
- GDP per capita (constant LCU) — 54,263 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$7.69 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 15.38 billion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 54,417 (2025)
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Questions people ask
- What is Barbados's adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)?
- -2.75% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is down 14.54 percentage points from 11.79% in 1990. The highest value was 12.5% in 1994 and the lowest -5.66% in 2011.
- Is the latest change in adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) unusual for Barbados?
- In 2017, Barbados' adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI) rose 2.29 percentage points on 2016 (from -5.04% to -2.75%). Across the 26 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2016), the average change was −0.65 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.19 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.9 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NY.ADJ.SVNG.GN.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Staff estimates, World Bank (WB); The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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