New businesses registered in Barbados

1,517 companies were registered in Barbados in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2015.

Measure: New businesses registered Unit: New limited liability companies Data: 2015 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Barbados, 2024 1,517 New limited liability companies
Change from 2023 +4.7% 2023: 1,449 companies

New businesses registered in Barbados over time

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New limited liability companies. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

New businesses registered (new limited liability companies), 2015 to 2024
Period Barbados
2024 1,517 companies
2023 1,449 companies
2022 1,028 companies
2021 995 companies
2020 934 companies
2019 939 companies
2018 859 companies
2017 945 companies
2016 1,056 companies
2015 1,105 companies

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +4.7% from 1,449 companies in 2023.
  • Since 2015, when it was 1,105 companies, the figure has changed by +37.3%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IC.BUS.NREG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2015 to 2024 for Barbados
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database