Barbados Statistical Service

Our Vision

To be the leading provider of adequate, timely and reliable statistics in the Caribbean Region.

Our Core Values

  • Professionalism
  • Integrity
  • Quality Service
  • Accountability
  • Team Spirit

Our Mission

To provide reliable and timely key economic and social statistics which decision makers and other users need.



Caribbean Statistics Day will be observed on Monday, 15th October 2018.

The theme being used for this year’s observance is the overarching theme of the CARICOM Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) “Building Resilience of the Caribbean Community”.

Recent News

MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL, CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) AMBASSADOR IRWIN LAROCQUE

ON THE OCCASION OF THE TENTH OBSERVANCE OF CARIBBEAN STATISTICS DAY 15 OCTOBER 2018

Just as in 2016 and 2017, this year’s observance of Caribbean Statistics Day takes place against the background of another significant achievement for Statistics in the Community. CARICOM Heads of Government at their Thirty-Ninth Regular Meeting (Jamaica, July 2018) endorsed the Strategic Framework for the Regional Strategy for the Development of Statistics (RSDS) in CARICOM. The endorsement of the RSDS initiative is in addition to their support for the Action Plan for Statistics at their Thirty-Seventh Regular Meeting in 2016 and for the preparation of the CARICOM RSDS at their Thirty-Eighth Regular Meeting in 2017.

The CARICOM RSDS is essentially a regional strategic plan aimed at strengthening and improving the availability of statistics for evidence-based decision-making. With an overarching theme, “Building the Resilience of the Caribbean Community”, the CARICOM RSDS contains strategies to modernise and transform the CARICOM Statistical System (CSS) in alignment with regional and national priorities. The Tenth Observance of Caribbean Statistics Day features that identical theme.

The CARICOM RSDS is central to the advancement of the regional integration process through making available harmonised, intra-regional statistics to guide and monitor its progress.

As Secretary-General of CARICOM, I support the strides that are being undertaken in this regard, led by the Standing Committee of Caribbean Statisticians (SCCS) since they can result in a more resilient and prosperous Community for all our people.

Developing countries the world over, including those of CARICOM, continue to face increasing demands for statistics that must be timely and reliable. In addition to the requirements of statistics to inform domestic policies, Member States are faced with new demands for data for the monitoring of international development objectives, particularly for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

For Small Island and Low-Lying Coastal Developing States (SIDS), such as those of CARICOM, that face challenges including vulnerability to natural disasters, to external economic and financial shocks and to deteriorating terms of trade due to changes in commodity prices, the need for statistics to evaluate empirically the effects of these problems is even more critical.

Strong regional statistical co-operation can be beneficial in ensuring that the national statistical systems produce the data required for evidenced-based decision-making and for monitoring of the regional and international development goals. Statisticians of the Region have succeeded in building a foundation upon which sustainable statistical capacity can be achieved.

This is through the implementation of strategic priorities that are grounded in effective governance arrangements based on international statistical standards of quality and the use of innovative and integrated statistical systems and approaches.

Communication and Advocacy, the mainstreaming of the SDGs and Gender, and the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the compiling and disseminating of systems of Statistics are all integral parts of the CARICOM RSDS.

Statisticians of CARICOM must be applauded for their continued efforts in engaging in such strategic initiatives to fill the data needs of the Region all in an effort to improve the lives of the people of our Community.

BSS Phone Numbers Have Changed

Please be informed that the phone numbers for the Barbados Statistical Service have changed. 

The new phone number is as follows:

PBX: 535-2600

Our fax number and email address remains the same.