Rhode Island (USA) is 6.2 times larger than Barbados.
Area: 430 km2 World Factbook
Population: 289,680 (July 2014) World Factbook
Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres in length and up to 23 kilometres in width, covering an area of 432 square kilometres. Wikipedia
Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, but the second most densely populated of the 50 US states behind New Jersey. Wikipedia