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National Blueprint · No. 01 of 195

Barbados

An island of 282,623 people that governs a sea about 430 times its size, and that turned a debt crisis into financial design.

Perfect Nations values what Barbados owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Barbados at a glance

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What we do for Barbados

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Sea to The Sovereign.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels28 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Food is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Barbados toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 185,000+ km²Exclusive economic zone

    The Sea

    About 430 times the island. A Marine Spatial Plan now decides where it can earn.

  • 97 kmCoastline, reefs to the west

    The Reef Coast

    Coral reefs, largely in protected waters on the west coast, beside the island’s beaches.

  • 86%Of all water supplied

    The Aquifer

    Half of what is pumped is lost, so the cheapest new water is already in the pipes.

  • 49 MWSolar on the grid, Dec 2020

    The Sun

    The national target is 100% renewable power by 2030, from sun and wind the island already has.

  • BBD 592.7mDebt converted, Nov 2024

    The Sovereign

    Two first-of-their-kind sovereign conversions in two years. That record is a financeable asset in itself.

Every figure, with its sourceThe Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

One island that rewrote the debt contract.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Barbados owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

  • $774MExternal debt restructured in 2019, after BBD 11.9bn at home in 2018, with natural disaster clauses written into the new bondsCleary Gottlieb
  • $302MIMF Extended Fund and Resilience and Sustainability Facilities, 2022; every review completed by June 2025IMF, 2025
  • $257MIMF precautionary Stand-By Arrangement, June 2026, intended to remain undrawnIMF, 2026
  • 93.7%Public debt as a share of GDP, June 2026Central Bank of Barbados
  • $11.6BInvestment Barbados needs by 2035 across twelve priorities, in the national planBarbados 2035, 2024

Capital already committed

  • GovernmentCompletedGlobal Bond with Climate Resilient Debt Clauses$500M

    Issued June 2025 · Priced around 8 percent

    First benchmark-size international bond with climate and pandemic deferral

    Issued in June 2025, this was the first international bond of benchmark size to carry climate and pandemic payment-deferral provisions, buying two years of fiscal breathing room after a severe hurricane, flood or epidemic-scale event. Sebastian Espinosa of White Oak Advisory, which advised Barbados, said the pricing should end the debate over whether markets demand a premium for such clauses.

    White Oak AdvisoryInternational bondholders

    Source
  • GovernmentActiveNational battery storage tender240 MWh

    Launched June 2025 · Up to 60 MW

    Open to private bidders, up to 30 MW each

    Storage to connect solar projects waiting to join the grid.

    Ministry of Energy and Business

    Source
  • GovernmentCompletedDebt-for-Climate-Resilience Conversion$300M

    Closed December 2024 · Structured as a sustainability-linked loan

    IDB and EIB guarantees of $150m each · savings of about BBD 220m over 10 years

    The world’s first debt-for-climate operation focused on resilience rather than nature. It pairs $300 million of multilateral guarantees with $110 million of upfront funding from the IDB and the Green Climate Fund, including a $40 million GCF grant, and channels the savings into water reclamation, sewerage and water-loss reduction.

    Inter-American Development BankEuropean Investment BankGreen Climate Fund

    Source
  • GovernmentCompletedBlue Bonds for Ocean Conservation Debt Conversion$150M

    Announced 21 September 2022 · Frees roughly $50m over fifteen years

    The Nature Conservancy’s third global blue bonds conversion

    TNC provided a $50 million guarantee and the IDB $100 million, with Credit Suisse as global lead arranger and CIBC FirstCaribbean as domestic lead. In exchange Barbados committed to protect approximately 30 percent of its ocean territory, up from almost none. The marine spatial plan that converts that commitment into gazetted water is due in 2027.

    The Nature ConservancyInter-American Development BankCIBC FirstCaribbean

    Source
  • GovernmentAdvocacyThe Bridgetown Initiative$650B

    Convened July 2022 · Version 3.0, September 2024 · Ongoing

    New SDR issuance sought under Bridgetown 3.0

    The Bridgetown Initiative began as a high-level retreat convened in Bridgetown in July 2022, went to the UN General Assembly that September and to COP27 in November. Version 2.0 followed in April 2023 and fed the Paris Summit’s Paris Pact for People and Planet in June 2023 and COP28’s climate finance framework that December. Version 3.0 was released in September 2024 around three pillars: change the rules of the game, shock-proof economies, and dramatically increase financing. It puts the annual climate and nature requirement for emerging and developing economies at $1.8 trillion and the SDG requirement at $1.2 trillion, of which $850 billion must come from external sources. It asks for $500 billion a year in additional official lending, $300 billion a year of thirty to fifty year MDB financing, a $650 billion new SDR allocation, and a minimum $120 billion IDA21 replenishment, alongside levies on aviation, shipping, fossil fuel windfalls and extreme wealth.

    Source
  • GovernmentCompletedComprehensive Debt Restructuring Programme$774M

    External exchange launched 5 November 2019 · Settled from 11 December 2019

    External exchange, after a BBD 11.9bn domestic restructuring in 2018

    The external exchange cut aggregate outstanding principal and past-due and accrued interest by more than 26 percent and issued a 2029 bond. Its natural disaster clause allows Barbados to capitalise interest and defer principal for two years after a qualifying earthquake, tropical cyclone or rainfall event — the drafting the rest of the market has since borrowed.

    Cleary GottliebExternal bondholders

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedHealth Services Resilience Program$175M

    Board approval announced 30 October 2026 · 20-year guarantee

    IDB guarantee for a debt refinancing; the savings fund the programme

    An IDB guarantee that lets Barbados refinance debt on better terms and commit the savings, about $160 million, to its health system. The programme targets chronic non-communicable disease and mental health through upgraded facilities, primary and community care, digital health and telehealth, with a regional pharmaceutical hub. It is the first operation under the Caribbean Multi-Guarantor Debt-for-Resilience Joint Initiative, launched by the IDB, CAF and the Caribbean Development Bank at COP30 in November 2025.

    Inter-American Development BankGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • MultilateralActivePrecautionary Stand-By Arrangement$257M

    Approved 22 June 2026 · 36 months · Intended to remain undrawn

    SDR 189m, 200 percent of quota

    The IMF Executive Board approved a 36-month precautionary Stand-By Arrangement on 22 June 2026, alongside the 2026 Article IV consultation, with SDR 47 million ($64 million) available immediately. Deputy Managing Director Nigel Clarke framed it as insurance in a shock-prone external environment and as support for reforms under the next phase of the BERT 2026 plan.

    International Monetary FundMinistry of Finance

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveEnergy Security Programmatic Policy-Based Loan$150M

    Approved and announced 21 June 2026

    IDB programmatic policy-based loan

    Underwrites reform of the electricity sector toward a more competitive, resilient and sustainable market with coordinated regulation and private participation. It targets system stability, reduced energy imports and integration of new generation and storage technologies, reaching more than 135,000 electricity customers directly.

    Inter-American Development BankGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveWater Security and Sector Performance Program$54.7M

    Approved 20 May 2026 · Program-for-Results · Five years

    $50m IBRD financing plus a $4.7m Livable Planet Fund grant

    Financing is released only when independently verified results are achieved, including reduced water losses, improved customer service and completed regulatory reforms. The Barbados Water Authority loses about half of all water produced before it reaches consumers; the programme also supports 2,000 new household sewage connections and a national groundwater monitoring system.

    World BankBarbados Water Authority

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveIDB Invest in Barbados$80M

    2025 · Private sector arm of the IDB

    About $80M in 2025; $80M to $100M a year planned

    Lending to Barbados companies across infrastructure, housing, water and finance, as reported in June 2026.

    IDB Invest

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveMains Replacement and Non-Revenue Water Reduction Program$200M

    Approved 3 December 2025 · First loan signed 16 April 2026

    IDB conditional credit line · first loan of $80m, 25 years, 5.5 years’ grace

    A line of credit to renew the island’s water network. The first $80 million loan replaces 100 km of deteriorated, high-risk mains and cuts water lost before it reaches customers through leak detection, bulk metering and monitoring, with a further $4 million IDB CLIMA grant. It is expected to reach more than 153,000 people directly and the whole island indirectly.

    Inter-American Development BankBarbados Water Authority

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveMSME Credit Guarantee Facility$50M

    25-year maturity · 5.5-year grace · SOFR-linked

    Guarantees up to 80 percent of a loan, capped at $1m per loan

    An IDB facility providing loan guarantees through eligible financial intermediaries so that micro, small and medium enterprises can invest in property, plant, equipment, infrastructure and new technology. It targets about 188 firms and prioritises women-owned businesses, exporters and firms investing in renewable energy and resilience.

    Inter-American Development BankLocal financial intermediaries

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedDisaster Risk Management Development Policy Loan$30M

    Announced 10 April 2025 · Includes a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option

    World Bank development policy loan with a Cat DDO

    A fast-access line of credit that Barbados can draw once an emergency is declared, so the response to a hurricane or a health emergency does not wait on new borrowing. To access it, Barbados carries out reforms in disaster risk financing, scalable social protection, fisheries legislation, coastal and marine management and stormwater management. It protects the seven standards when a disaster or a health emergency strikes.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveProductive Business Solutions$40M

    Approved March 2025 · Credit facility and term loan

    Barbados operation is the main beneficiary

    Finance for an IT company’s investment and working capital across the Caribbean.

    IDB Invest

    Source
  • MultilateralSignedReclaiming Our Atlantic Destiny (ROAD) Program$75M

    Announced 21 February 2025 · Signed at the 48th CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting

    CAF financing agreement

    A financing agreement with CAF, the development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, for cultural heritage and tourism. It supports the ROAD Program, an amphitheatre at the National Botanical Gardens and the modernisation of the airport. It bears on livelihood, the seventh standard, through tourism.

    CAFGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • MultilateralCompletedProgram to Strengthen Social Services in Barbados II$100M

    Approved 29 January 2025 · Closed

    IDB loan, social investment and social security

    Designed to make social policies more effective and efficient and to keep the social security system financially sustainable over the long term.

    Inter-American Development BankGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveHurricane Beryl Emergency Recovery Operation$54M

    Approved 21 November 2024 · First in the region with a Rapid Response Option

    World Bank emergency operation

    Approved after Hurricane Beryl damaged 240 fishing vessels, 73 percent of hotels, apartments and guest houses, 40 homes and the Bridgetown Port and Fisheries Marina, reaching about 24,640 people. A linked vessel replacement programme allocates up to BBD 18 million; its first ten loans, totalling BBD 2.8 million, were approved on 10 August 2026.

    World BankEnterprise Growth Fund Limited

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveClimate Resilient South Coast Water Reclamation Project$70M

    Approved 24 October 2024 · Completion estimated March 2030

    GCF share of a $110m project · $30m loan, $40m grant

    Financed through the debt-for-climate conversion structure with the IDB as accredited entity. It rebuilds the South Coast treatment plant as a water reclamation facility supplying reclaimed water for agriculture and aquifer restoration. Roughly 282,000 people are expected to benefit — effectively the whole country.

    Green Climate FundInter-American Development Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralCompletedGreen and Resilient Recovery Development Policy Loan$100M

    Approved 11 January 2023 · Two reform pillars

    World Bank development policy operation

    The first pillar covered water reuse law, climate-smart agriculture policy, the Barbados Environmental Sustainability Fund and marine pollution reduction. The second covered disaster management standards, renewable energy expansion and adaptation.

    World BankGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • MultilateralCompletedExtended Fund Facility and Resilience and Sustainability Facility$302M

    Approved 7 December 2022 · Final reviews concluded 20 June 2025

    $113m EFF plus $189m RSF

    Barbados was among the first countries in the world to draw on the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The fifth and final reviews of both arrangements were concluded by the Executive Board on 20 June 2025, with all quantitative performance criteria and indicative targets met and both fifth-review RSF reform measures completed, covering public investment appraisal, fiscal risk analysis and the PPP framework.

    International Monetary FundCentral Bank of BarbadosMinistry of Finance

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveWater Sector Resilience Nexus for Sustainability$27.6M

    Approved 1 March 2018 · First GCF climate resilience project in the Caribbean

    GCF grant within a $45.2m programme

    Solar photovoltaic and backup gas power at pumping stations, expanded rainwater harvesting and storage, reduced non-revenue water losses, and an adaptation fund seeded by the resulting operating savings — a design that pays for its own next phase.

    Green Climate FundCaribbean Community Climate Change Centre

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveCCRIF SPC Parametric Risk Pool$483M

    Established 2007 · Restructured as a segregated portfolio company 2014

    Facility-wide payouts across 82 events through October 2025

    Barbados is a founding-era member of the world’s first multi-country parametric catastrophe risk pool, now spanning 39 members across 19 Caribbean and four Central American governments plus utilities. CCRIF also serves as the event reporting agent for the disaster clauses embedded in Barbadian sovereign bonds — the pool and the bond contract are wired to each other.

    CCRIF SPC39 member governments and utilities

    Source
  • BilateralCompletedSam Lord’s Castle redevelopmentBBD 240M

    Loan laid in Parliament November 2015 · Opened 2023 as Wyndham Grand

    Export-Import Bank of China loan to the Government, on-lent to Barbados Tourism Investment Inc.

    Financed about 85 percent of the redevelopment of the Sam Lord’s Castle estate in St Philip, which opened in October 2023 as a 422-room resort.

    Export-Import Bank of ChinaGovernment of Barbados

    Source
  • PrivateAnnualForeign direct investment$303M

    2024 · All inflows from abroad

    Annual inflow, US dollars

    All direct investment by foreign companies into Barbados in 2024.

    UNCTAD

    Source
  • PrivateActiveRenewstable Barbados$41M

    Approved 25 October 2023 · IFC as accredited entity

    GCF share of a $169m project

    Solar generation, battery storage, and hydrogen storage with electrolysis and fuel cells combined to deliver a 24-hour dispatchable, climate-resilient baseload solution — supporting the national renewable transition and a 44 percent greenhouse gas reduction against business as usual by 2030.

    Green Climate FundInternational Finance Corporation

    Source
  • ImpactActiveCARICOM Resilience Fund$60M

    Sygnus Capital · Regional, Barbados eligible

    Equity fund target, scalable to $100M; IFC equity approved 2026

    Invests in clean energy, the blue economy and climate-smart farming across CARICOM. No Barbados deal confirmed yet.

    Sygnus CapitalCARICOM Development FundIFC

    Source
  • ImpactActiveThe Blue Green Bank$15.5M

    Approved 13 July 2023 · Established in Barbadian law by a dedicated Act

    GCF equity within a $30.5m capitalisation

    Designed to keep green finance for adaptation and mitigation permanently available to local borrowers across energy access, water security and resilient infrastructure, with 291,000 people targeted for increased climate resilience. It is the instrument aimed squarely at the household rather than the sovereign.

    Green Climate FundPegasus Capital AdvisorsGovernment of Barbados

    Source

Already working in Barbados.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Barbados, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

Suggest an enterprise
  • Food

    Island Growers Barbados

    Hydroponic greenhouses rated for Category 5 hurricanes.

    Hortidaily, 2021
  • Water

    Spring Garden desalination

    Turns seawater into drinking water for about 30% of the island.

    Ionics Freshwater
  • Shelter

    Blue Green Bank

    Finances green, affordable homes and hurricane-resilient roofs.

    Business Barbados, 2023
  • Energy

    Rum and Sargassum

    Fuel for vehicles made from seaweed and rum distillery waste.

    CCREEE, 2024
  • Education

    Digital classrooms

    First Caribbean nation on Google Workspace for Education Plus.

    Barbados Today, 2024
  • Health

    VPD-SMART

    Digital disease surveillance built on the open DHIS2 platform.

    PAHO, 2026
  • Livelihood

    Bitt

    Barbadian fintech that built DCash, digital money for the Eastern Caribbean.

    The Daily Herald, 2021

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Barbados, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting every Barbadian above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, in 2025 prices.

How Perfect Capita works
Barbados: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for Barbados.WATER99%SHELTER99.7%ENERGY100FOOD69%EDUCATION97HEALTH82LIVELIHOOD82.5%
69%
Food · furthest from reachNot food insecure; 31% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2022

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Barbados

$6,204Perfect Capita, per person
282,623people
$1.75bnThe price of Perfect Barbados, a year

A Perfect Nations estimate in 2025 US dollars, to be confirmed with Barbados.

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Perfect Nations estimate in 2025 US dollars, to be confirmed with Barbados. Perfect Capita adds the national poverty lines (Survey of Living Conditions 2016, carried to 2025 prices) to public spending per person on education and health, so nothing is counted twice. The Gap applies FAO’s 2022 food insecurity figure to a population of 282,623. The strict measures

The strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Barbados

All Solutions

  • Solution No. 44

    The Blue Food Swap

    The next debt conversion is bound to local farms, fisheries and sea farming.

    • 01The challengeAbout 88,000 Barbadians, three in ten, are moderately or severely food insecure.
    • 02What Perfect Nations advisesBarbados should make its next debt conversion a blue food swap, refinancing costly debt with guaranteed debt and binding the savings to local farms, fisheries and sea farming, so the island grows more of what it eats. With super intelligence, food prices, harvests and fish stocks can be read week by week, so support reaches the households that cannot count on enough good food before prices rise.

    ~88,000Barbadians moderately or severely food insecure

    FromPreeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the SolutionDiscuss this Solution

  • Deal Note No. 10

    Barbados turns cheaper debt into health care

    • 01The challengeBarbados carries costly debt while chronic disease and mental health strain its health system.
    • 02What Perfect Nations advisesCaribbean nations with costly debt should refinance it behind a development bank guarantee and bind the savings to health care, Saint Lucia first. With super intelligence, every dollar saved can be followed into named clinics and services as it is spent, and the same swap screened across the region, until care reaches every citizen.

    $175mIDB guarantee for Barbados, 20-year term

    FromPreeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the Deal Note

  • Deal Note No. 08

    Barbados renews its water mains on one credit line

    A US$200 million IDB credit line lets Barbados replace its water mains in phases.

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    The first US$80 million loan replaces 100 km of high-risk pipe. It protects a standard Barbados already meets; its Gap lies in food.

    FromNia CarringtonNation Steward of Barbados · SI ResearcherRead the Deal Note

  • Deal Note No. 02

    The Caribbean’s first pooled sustainability bond needs a pipeline

    • 01The challengeCaribbean projects are too small, one by one, for institutional investors, and Barbados needs US$11.6 billion by 2035.
    • 02What Perfect Nations advisesCaribbean states should prepare their projects to one standard, each costed and tied to water connections and megawatts, so that together they can fill the Caribbean Sustainability Bond. With super intelligence, small states can prepare and cost projects faster, and show investors what each dollar delivers in water and power.

    $250mthe most the Caribbean Sustainability Bond seeks to raise

    FromPreeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the Deal Note
The Trident in Bloom, nation portrait of Barbados
The Trident in BloomNation Portrait · No. 1 of 195 · Art of Nations
Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsBarbados

Dear Barbados,

You are a small island, and the world has long filed you under beach.

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That reading was always too small. … Picture Perfect Barbados: every tap runs clean, every child walks to a school where a teacher is waiting, and no Barbadian falls below a decent life, because the nation has decided that none will.

“The island that rewrote the rules for the world can now write the most important clause of all: the promise a nation makes to every one of its citizens.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect NationsRead the full letter

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Barbados ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Barbados, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of Barbados, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments

  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Perfect Capita, Coverage and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing

  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in Barbadian prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab

  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Barbadians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect Barbados into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Barbados, published with your name.

    Submit your writing

  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect Barbados.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Barbados already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

    Nominate yourselfSuggest a guest

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Barbados.

    Become a Co-designer

The Barbados ReDesign Studio is open

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, land area 2024. Population of record: 282,623.
  2. Barbados Statistical Service, 2021 Population and Housing Census Report (June 2023).
  3. CRFM, Barbados Marine Spatial Planning Profile: exclusive economic zone of more than 185,000 km².
  4. UNEP/GRID-Geneva, Barbados country profile: coastline of about 97 km; reefs in protected areas on the west coast.
  5. World Bank, press release, 20 May 2026: 86% of supply from groundwater; about half of water produced lost; USD 54.7 million programme.
  6. Parliament of Barbados, Ministerial Statement on the Special Feed-in Tariff: 49 MW of solar on the grid, December 2020.
  7. Central Bank of Barbados, Debt-for-Development Swaps, 20 February 2025: BBD 592.7 million loan at 3.5%; IDB and EIB guarantees; 2030 water targets.
  8. Inter-American Development Bank: BA-U0003 (USD 175 million guarantee, Board approval announced 30 October 2026); BA-L1062 (USD 100 million, approved 29 January 2025); BA-O0011 (USD 200 million CCLIP, approved 3 December 2025) and BA-L1069 (USD 80 million first loan).
  9. Coverage of the seven basic living standards: FAO (food, 2022); WHO/UNICEF JMP (water, 2024); 2021 Census (shelter); IRENA and World Bank (energy, 2023); UNESCO (lower-secondary completion, 2024); WHO service coverage index via UHC2030 (health, 2023); IDB and Barbados Statistical Service, Survey of Living Conditions 2016 (livelihood).
  10. Perfect Capita: Perfect Nations estimate of 31 October 2026, from the Survey of Living Conditions 2016 poverty lines carried to 2025 prices by the World Bank consumer price index, and World Bank public spending per person on education (2024) and health (2023). The price of Perfect Barbados is Perfect Capita times the population of record.
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