Barbados holds a 67–33 advantage over St. Lucia on the Relative Advantage Index, a clear margin.
The margin is driven by active personnel (100% of the combined total, 1.0k) and economic size (GDP) (75% of the combined total, $7.5bn). St. Lucia leads on logistics & power projection.
2 factors — military spending, nuclear warheads — could not be scored because the figure is unpublished for at least one side. Those factors are excluded and the remaining weights renormalised, never substituted.
| Factor | Barbados | Share | St. Lucia | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Economic size (GDP) World Bank WDI | $7.5bn | 75%25% | $2.5bn | 40% |
Active personnel COW NMC | 1.0k | 100%0% | 0 | 30% |
Logistics & power projection OurAirports | 1 | 25%75% | 3 | 30% |
Shares are each side's portion of the combined total for that factor. Weights are renormalised across the factors both sides publish — see the methodology. Data read 2026-08-04.
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