🇧🇸 Bahamas Demographics - Population, Culture & Society

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🇧🇸 Bahamas BS / BHS #155

Nomad Score 49.0

Cities 8

Region Caribbean Community, Remote Work Friendly Countries, Digital Nomad Islands, Nomad Visa Countries, Islands, North America, Americas, Caribbean

Currency BSD

📊 KEY DEMOGRAPHICS

Population 412.6K

Density 25.2/km²

HDI 0.820 (Very High)

GDP per capita $35,257

Life Expectancy (2023) 74.6 yrs

Fertility Rate (2023) 1.37

Urban Population (2024) 81.3%

Labor Force (2025) 82.9%

Gender Wage Gap (2019) -2.1%

Sources: REST Countries v4, World Bank, OWID

🗣 LANGUAGES & CULTURE

Languages

Language	Native Name
English	English

Religions

Religion	Percentage
Christianity	93.0%
No religion	4.5%
Folk religion	1.9%
Other	0.6%

Ethnicities

Ethnicity	Percentage
African	90.6%
White	4.7%
Mixed	2.1%
Others	1.9%
Unspecified	0.7%

Demonym (male) Bahamian

Demonym (female) Bahamian

National Anthem March On, Bahamaland

📈 POPULATION STRUCTURE

Age Group	Distribution	Share
0-14 Youth		17.9%
15-64 Working		70.3%
65+ Elderly		11.8%

Dependency Ratio 42.2%

Profile Mature

Urban Pop. (2024) 81.3%

Birth Rate (2023) 10.9 /1000

Death Rate (2023) 8.7 /1000

Fertility Rate (2023) 1.37

Infant Mortality (2023) 11.4 /1000

Tourism (2020) 1.8M

Source: World Bank

🏥 HEALTHCARE

Life Expectancy (2023) 74.6 yrs

HALE (2021) 61.5 yrs

Health Spending (2023) 6.3% of GDP

Infant Mortality (2023) 11.4/1000

UHC Index (2021) 77/100

Hospital Beds (2023) 2.2/1000

Physicians (2017) 1.90/1000

Nurses (2023) 4.22/1000

Health Spending/cap (2023) $2,262

Out-of-Pocket (2023) 27.5%

Source: World Bank, WHO

🎓 EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY

Education Spending (2023) 2.7% of GDP

Internet Users (2023) 94.8%

Mobile Subscriptions (2023) 100.1/100

Broadband (2023) 23.8/100

Secure Servers (2024) 6,355/1M

Source: World Bank, OWID

🌐 BROADBAND CONNECTIVITY

Broadband per 100 (2023) 23.8

Source: ITU / World Bank via OWID. Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people.

🌍 GEOGRAPHY & PRACTICAL

Area 13,943 km²

Capital Nassau 📍

Continent North America

Region Americas

Subregion Caribbean

Landlocked No

Driving Side Left

Timezones UTC-05:00

Calling Codes +1

TLD .bs

Maps Google Maps | OpenStreetMap

🏅 NATIONAL SYMBOLS

Flag The flag of the Bahamas is composed of three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine, yellow and aquamarine, with a black equilateral triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle has its base on the hoist end and spans about one-third the width of the field.