Barbados vs Maldives: Fish discards

Barbados

97.24

in 2018

Maldives

53.07

in 2018

Barbados rank

131st

Maldives rank

134th

Fish discards over time

Barbados
Maldives

How they compare

Barbados currently reports 97.24 against 53.07 in Maldives, a difference of 44.17.

That makes Barbados's figure about 1.8 times Maldives's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 6 shared years of data; in 2013 it was Maldives ahead.

Barbados ranks 131st and Maldives ranks 134th of 161 countries.

Individual pages

Fish discards in Barbados
Fish discards in Maldives
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Fish discards
Source: Sea Around Us (2020) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 161 places, 9,371 data points, 1950–2018
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Discards are animals thrown back (alive or dead) into the sea after being caught during fishing activities. This represents bycatch (fish caught unintentionally) that is not brought ashore for use.