Barbados's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) was 101,300 in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 35.21% from 74,923 in 2013 (3.06% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 101,300 | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 100,952 | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 74,923 | 2013 |
| Highest | 107,098 | 2017 |
| Lowest | 72,163 | 2012 |
| Average since 2014 | 95,841 | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 80,424 | 2010 |
What the numbers say
In 2023, Barbados' container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) rose 4.4% on 2022 (from 97,000 to 101,300).
Across the 12 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2022), the average change was +1.9% and a typical year strayed about 8.5% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 21.7% in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 9.1% in 2020. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 12% 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.
How it compares
In 2023, Barbados had the 9th highest value of the 12 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Barbados | 101,300 | 2023 |
| World | 913.28 million | 2024 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 63.97 million | 2024 |
| High income | 379.15 million | 2024 |
Closest to Barbados in the 2023 ranking
What this measures
Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes, and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.
Limitations: Measures of port container traffic, much of it commodities of medium to high value added, give some indication of economic growth in a country. But when traffic is merely transshipment, much of the economic benefit goes to the terminal operator and ancillary services for ships and containers rather than to the country more broadly. In transshipment centers empty containers may account for as much as 40 percent of traffic. Data cover coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 14 values
| Year | Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 101,300 |
| 2022 | 97,000 |
| 2021 | 93,899 |
| 2020 | 89,460 |
| 2019 | 98,435 |
| 2018 | 100,952 |
| 2017 | 107,098 |
| 2016 | 105,321 |
| 2015 | 86,508 |
| 2014 | 78,432 |
| 2013 |
Container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 28,000 (2024)
- Argentina — 1.47 million (2024)
- Aruba — 64,800 (2024)
- Bahamas, The — 1.54 million (2024)
- Belize — 21,279 (2023)
- Brazil — 13.89 million (2024)
- British Virgin Islands — 45,956 (2019)
- Cayman Islands — 46,658 (2024)
- Chile — 4.47 million (2024)
More infrastructure data for Barbados
- Fixed telephone subscriptions — 121,314 (2022)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 42.97 (2022)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 323,482 (2022)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 114.58 (2022)
- ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) — US$3.44 million (2017)
- ICT service exports (% of service exports, BoP) — 0.23% (2017)
- Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 25.88% (2024)
- Individuals using the Internet (% of population) — 70.36% (2024)
- Scientific and technical journal articles — 56.79 (2023)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Barbados's container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units)?
- 101,300 in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2010?
- It is up 25.96% from 80,424 in 2010 (1.79% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 107,098 in 2017 and the lowest 72,163 in 2012.
- How does Barbados rank?
- 9th highest of 12 economies with data for 2023.
- Is the latest change in container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) unusual for Barbados?
- In 2023, Barbados' container port traffic (TEU: 20 foot equivalent units) rose 4.4% on 2022 (from 97,000 to 101,300). Across the 12 yearly changes before that (2011 to 2022), the average change was +1.9% and a typical year strayed about 8.5% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 IS.SHP.GOOD.TU, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), uri: http://unctad.org/en/Pages/statistics.aspx 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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