As a result, Barbados has the reputation of being a safe, salubrious country, and it scores highly in indexes of freedom and transparency. Barbados outshines most of the competition in the majority of global indexes which offer comparisons among countries.
We are Number One in Latin America and the Caribbean in The Global Innovation Index, published by the UN World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and others; first in the Caribbean in The Global Tourism Competitiveness Report, published by the World Economic Forum; and second only to Panama in the Caribbean and Central America in The Global Competitiveness Report, published by the same body.