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Bahamas population

Bahamas population now

405,002

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 398,358–412,113.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 399,440

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 404,625; 95% range, 31 Dec: 398,358–412,113
Median age: 36.7
Aged 65+: 12.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

2023 | 2024 peak 2050

male female projection · one cell = 50 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

BHS · 1950–2100 · in brief

Bahamas in numbers

399,440 people lived in The Bahamas in mid-2023: less than 0.01% of the world's people, and the 178th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 4.8 times its 1950 population of 83,486.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2050 at 424 thousand, then falling to 385 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 92,639 to 982 thousand.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2035; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it. Deaths also outnumbered births in 2021. The population still grows until 2050, because more people arrive than leave.

The median age was 20.4 in 1950 and 35.6 in 2023; the projection has 47.5 in 2100. 11.5% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 29.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2029 at 286 thousand.

Its place in the world by population: 178th in 2023, 182nd in 2050, 179th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Montenegro in 2079, Macao in 2089 and Malta in 2090. It is overtaken by Iceland in 2028, Mayotte in 2032 and Vanuatu in 2036.

Population, mid-2023: 399,440
Rank by population, 2023: 178 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.48% · +1,902 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 40
Land area, 2023: 10,010 km²
Births, 2023: 4,335
Deaths, 2023: 3,480
Net migration, 2023: +1,001
Children per woman, 2023: 1.37
Median age, 2023: 35.6 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 74.5 years
In a city, 2025: 62 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 83,486
Projected, mid-2050: 424,265
Projected, mid-2100: 384,955

BHS · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Bahamas, 1950–2100

Bahamas: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	83,053		3,068	975	4.52	58.9
1951	estimate	83,920		3,090	958	4.53	59.2
1952	estimate	85,251		3,166	946	4.61	59.6
1953	estimate	87,076		3,261	941	4.69	60.0
1954	estimate	89,398		3,370	941	4.76	60.3
1955	estimate	92,250		3,495	946	4.83	60.6
1956	estimate	95,594		3,629	953	4.88	61.0
1957	estimate	99,416		3,777	964	4.92	61.4
1958	estimate	103,659		3,935	976	4.96	61.7
1959	estimate	108,338		4,144	993	5.03	62.1
1960	estimate	113,496		4,362	1,011	5.09	62.5
1961	estimate	119,138		4,610	1,033	5.16	62.8
1962	estimate	125,256		4,802	1,054	5.13	63.2
1963	estimate	131,729		4,977	1,076	5.06	63.5
1964	estimate	138,445		5,134	1,096	4.97	63.9
1965	estimate	144,611		5,307	1,115	4.88	64.3
1966	estimate	151,292		5,478	1,139	4.79	64.6
1967	estimate	158,456		5,657	1,155	4.69	65.0
1968	estimate	166,078		5,800	1,177	4.56	65.4
1969	estimate	174,099		5,886	1,198	4.38	65.8
1970	estimate	181,863		5,940	1,215	4.21	66.2
1971	estimate	188,100		5,915	1,225	4.06	66.5
1972	estimate	193,614		5,821	1,238	3.89	66.8
1973	estimate	198,496		5,709	1,242	3.73	67.2
1974	estimate	203,086		5,591	1,239	3.57	67.6
1975	estimate	207,598		5,478	1,229	3.42	68.1
1976	estimate	212,173		5,401	1,235	3.30	68.5
1977	estimate	216,830		5,324	1,254	3.17	68.8
1978	estimate	221,484		5,272	1,286	3.05	68.9
1979	estimate	226,037		5,219	1,320	2.94	69.0
1980	estimate	230,422		5,196	1,352	2.84	69.1
1981	estimate	234,631		5,223	1,372	2.77	69.4
1982	estimate	238,598		5,254	1,390	2.71	69.7
1983	estimate	242,630		5,297	1,409	2.65	70.0
1984	estimate	246,767		5,334	1,441	2.59	70.2
1985	estimate	250,960		5,401	1,484	2.55	70.3
1986	estimate	255,348		5,534	1,536	2.53	70.3
1987	estimate	259,725		5,674	1,585	2.52	70.4
1988	estimate	264,144		5,827	1,628	2.52	70.5
1989	estimate	268,752		5,987	1,663	2.52	70.7
1990	estimate	273,605		6,128	1,697	2.52	70.9
1991	estimate	278,284		6,225	1,727	2.51	71.2
1992	estimate	283,178		6,845	1,781	2.71	71.3
1993	estimate	288,676		6,703	1,825	2.61	71.4
1994	estimate	294,003		6,438	1,880	2.47	71.4
1995	estimate	299,015		6,375	1,941	2.42	71.4
1996	estimate	303,907		6,260	1,996	2.35	71.5
1997	estimate	308,629		6,146	2,039	2.29	71.6
1998	estimate	313,178		6,016	2,067	2.23	71.8
1999	estimate	317,558		5,772	2,085	2.13	72.2
2000	estimate	321,670		5,587	2,100	2.06	72.5
2001	estimate	326,000		5,503	2,126	2.02	72.8
2002	estimate	329,672		5,405	2,155	1.98	73.0
2003	estimate	333,556		5,378	2,196	1.97	73.2
2004	estimate	337,679		5,425	2,261	1.98	73.2
2005	estimate	341,885		5,532	2,311	2.01	73.4
2006	estimate	345,903		5,584	2,378	2.02	73.5
2007	estimate	350,847		5,698	2,455	2.04	73.5
2008	estimate	355,822		5,670	2,536	2.00	73.5
2009	estimate	360,419		5,775	2,613	2.01	73.5
2010	estimate	365,201		5,352	2,691	1.84	73.5
2011	estimate	369,754		5,306	2,747	1.79	73.6
2012	estimate	373,704		5,285	2,800	1.76	73.7
2013	estimate	377,235		5,268	2,837	1.74	73.9
2014	estimate	380,671		5,162	2,904	1.69	74.0
2015	estimate	383,925		4,858	3,018	1.57	73.8
2016	estimate	386,768		4,650	3,081	1.50	74.0
2017	estimate	389,343		4,460	3,171	1.42	74.0
2018	estimate	391,627		4,423	3,250	1.40	74.1
2019	estimate	393,808		4,418	3,679	1.40	71.4
2020	estimate	395,541		4,400	3,770	1.39	73.0
2021	estimate	396,184		4,369	4,463	1.38	70.8
2022	estimate	396,562		4,350	3,402	1.38	74.5
2023	estimate	398,515		4,335	3,480	1.37	74.5
2024	estimate	400,366		4,341	3,519	1.37	74.7
2025	projection	402,200	400,122–404,314	4,300	3,579	1.36	74.9
2026	projection	403,865	399,610–408,046	4,268	3,639	1.36	75.0
2027	projection	405,392	398,358–412,113	4,248	3,695	1.35	75.2
2028	projection	406,847	396,588–416,424	4,225	3,756	1.35	75.3
2029	projection	408,272	394,729–421,272	4,207	3,810	1.35	75.5
2030	projection	409,622	392,655–425,868	4,197	3,867	1.35	75.6
2031	projection	410,911	390,111–430,486	4,180	3,924	1.35	75.8
2032	projection	412,165	388,146–435,630	4,164	3,980	1.36	75.9
2033	projection	413,278	386,181–440,361	4,150	4,036	1.36	76.1
2034	projection	414,405	382,876–446,386	4,134	4,090	1.36	76.2
2035	projection	415,462	379,509–451,625	4,115	4,144	1.37	76.4
2036	projection	416,493	375,880–457,408	4,097	4,198	1.37	76.5
2037	projection	417,376	372,492–463,296	4,080	4,253	1.38	76.7
2038	projection	418,301	368,314–469,263	4,059	4,308	1.38	76.8
2039	projection	419,199	364,750–475,042	4,039	4,361	1.38	77.0
2040	projection	419,965	360,747–481,000	4,016	4,412	1.39	77.1
2041	projection	420,727	357,580–486,864	3,998	4,467	1.39	77.3
2042	projection	421,418	353,225–492,584	3,969	4,519	1.39	77.5
2043	projection	422,062	348,858–499,449	3,947	4,573	1.39	77.6
2044	projection	422,603	344,392–507,254	3,924	4,630	1.40	77.7
2045	projection	423,040	340,405–513,819	3,898	4,681	1.40	77.9
2046	projection	423,485	336,526–520,961	3,880	4,734	1.40	78.0
2047	projection	423,861	332,554–528,215	3,854	4,789	1.40	78.2
2048	projection	424,032	328,013–535,529	3,827	4,841	1.41	78.3
2049	projection	424,203	325,045–540,808	3,798	4,890	1.41	78.5
2050	projection	424,277	320,555–547,715	3,771	4,941	1.41	78.7
2051	projection	424,253	316,108–553,755	3,748	4,991	1.41	78.8
2052	projection	424,169	312,623–560,700	3,728	5,037	1.41	78.9
2053	projection	424,022	306,911–568,041	3,714	5,083	1.42	79.1
2054	projection	423,870	303,500–576,829	3,701	5,123	1.42	79.2
2055	projection	423,576	296,451–581,531	3,682	5,160	1.42	79.4
2056	projection	423,305	292,844–589,207	3,674	5,194	1.42	79.5
2057	projection	422,940	287,662–596,952	3,671	5,226	1.43	79.7
2058	projection	422,630	284,138–604,335	3,669	5,257	1.43	79.8
2059	projection	422,249	281,581–611,524	3,665	5,283	1.43	80.0
2060	projection	421,719	276,733–618,258	3,657	5,306	1.43	80.1
2061	projection	421,197	270,664–624,398	3,653	5,325	1.44	80.3
2062	projection	420,696	266,064–630,459	3,649	5,340	1.44	80.4
2063	projection	420,127	260,492–638,408	3,649	5,354	1.44	80.6
2064	projection	419,524	254,751–647,820	3,646	5,365	1.44	80.7
2065	projection	418,895	250,349–650,419	3,640	5,372	1.45	80.8
2066	projection	418,217	243,992–657,083	3,635	5,377	1.45	81.0
2067	projection	417,529	239,567–670,940	3,627	5,383	1.45	81.1
2068	projection	416,813	234,737–683,114	3,617	5,388	1.45	81.3
2069	projection	416,026	231,217–691,412	3,609	5,395	1.45	81.4
2070	projection	415,289	225,723–698,707	3,601	5,401	1.46	81.5
2071	projection	414,563	220,171–704,003	3,590	5,407	1.46	81.7
2072	projection	413,739	212,661–711,446	3,581	5,415	1.46	81.8
2073	projection	412,816	208,370–716,991	3,577	5,426	1.47	82.0
2074	projection	411,852	204,508–723,908	3,565	5,432	1.47	82.1
2075	projection	411,040	197,849–730,471	3,557	5,439	1.47	82.2
2076	projection	410,144	193,122–737,917	3,546	5,447	1.47	82.3
2077	projection	409,226	187,506–749,490	3,536	5,458	1.48	82.5
2078	projection	408,308	181,729–753,053	3,520	5,461	1.48	82.6
2079	projection	407,387	177,382–760,017	3,511	5,463	1.48	82.7
2080	projection	406,457	171,744–776,763	3,498	5,464	1.48	82.9
2081	projection	405,474	165,254–780,435	3,488	5,464	1.48	83.0
2082	projection	404,535	162,418–792,174	3,479	5,460	1.48	83.1
2083	projection	403,493	159,566–804,734	3,471	5,456	1.48	83.2
2084	projection	402,424	155,244–811,307	3,466	5,453	1.49	83.4
2085	projection	401,288	149,785–819,330	3,452	5,445	1.49	83.5
2086	projection	400,207	144,741–827,710	3,441	5,431	1.49	83.6
2087	projection	399,040	139,602–837,786	3,436	5,417	1.49	83.8
2088	projection	397,896	135,661–845,449	3,429	5,403	1.49	83.9
2089	projection	396,723	132,561–848,007	3,420	5,385	1.49	84.0
2090	projection	395,605	129,775–858,010	3,410	5,366	1.49	84.1
2091	projection	394,508	125,948–873,052	3,403	5,344	1.50	84.3
2092	projection	393,415	122,964–889,164	3,397	5,319	1.50	84.4
2093	projection	392,373	118,707–906,577	3,394	5,297	1.50	84.5
2094	projection	391,347	113,189–915,134	3,391	5,272	1.50	84.6
2095	projection	390,324	108,262–928,192	3,386	5,249	1.50	84.8
2096	projection	389,254	106,299–940,791	3,386	5,227	1.50	84.9
2097	projection	388,295	103,177–946,736	3,380	5,203	1.51	85.0
2098	projection	387,359	99,198–957,637	3,375	5,173	1.51	85.1
2099	projection	386,395	96,212–966,855	3,373	5,152	1.51	85.2
2100	projection	385,444	92,639–981,891	3,363	5,128	1.51	85.3

Show the numbers: Bahamas, mid-2026, by single year of age

Bahamas: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	2,160	2,108
1	2,184	2,134
2	2,200	2,151
3	2,210	2,158
4	2,220	2,169
5	2,228	2,178
6	2,237	2,185
7	2,246	2,194
8	2,263	2,210
9	2,322	2,268
10	2,424	2,366
11	2,554	2,493
12	2,656	2,595
13	2,686	2,628
14	2,696	2,641
15	2,719	2,670
16	2,846	2,801
17	2,941	2,903
18	2,948	2,922
19	2,959	2,945
20	2,943	2,944
21	2,916	2,936
22	2,875	2,914
23	2,852	2,907
24	2,854	2,924
25	2,869	2,958
26	2,908	3,016
27	2,990	3,115
28	3,067	3,207
29	3,120	3,273
30	3,173	3,339
31	3,214	3,396
32	3,290	3,492
33	3,383	3,607
34	3,269	3,512
35	3,099	3,360
36	3,042	3,320
37	2,969	3,262
38	2,891	3,198
39	2,816	3,134
40	2,744	3,070
41	2,685	3,018
42	2,646	2,983
43	2,610	2,948
44	2,572	2,910
45	2,537	2,875
46	2,515	2,849
47	2,508	2,839
48	2,508	2,835
49	2,512	2,834
50	2,518	2,836
51	2,524	2,840
52	2,540	2,854
53	2,554	2,867
54	2,561	2,875
55	2,550	2,869
56	2,526	2,851
57	2,500	2,832
58	2,456	2,799
59	2,393	2,745
60	2,322	2,682
61	2,241	2,604
62	2,137	2,498
63	2,009	2,374
64	1,876	2,246
65	1,750	2,110
66	1,624	1,970
67	1,502	1,836
68	1,392	1,715
69	1,296	1,607
70	1,202	1,507
71	1,110	1,415
72	1,024	1,334
73	948	1,263
74	881	1,200
75	825	1,153
76	781	1,118
77	746	1,088
78	714	1,055
79	682	1,018
80	652	980
81	620	937
82	554	832
83	484	720
84	435	656
85	380	587
86	323	518
87	268	450
88	217	388
89	173	331
90	136	280
91	106	235
92	82	196
93	63	162
94	48	133
95	35	108
96	26	85
97	18	67
98	13	52
99	9	39
100+	16	96

BHS · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Bahamas, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

BHS · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Bahamas

On the UN's projection, the Bahamas will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2029: 285,892 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 280,302.

100 aged 15–64

26 children

16 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 32 years: 2007–2038.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

BHS · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Bahamas, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 the Bahamas gains 794 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 236 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 3,405 (1968); its biggest loss, 1,219 (1950).

In 2024, 67,285 people living in the Bahamas had been born in another country, 17 of every 100 people there, against 10 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

BHS · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Bahamas

Of every 100 babies born in the Bahamas in 2023, 8 had a mother under 20, 73 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 13 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
13 · 71 · 16

2023
8 · 73 · 19

2050 · projected
6 · 69 · 25

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 4,335
Average age when women have a baby: 28.8 years; 28.6 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 25; 91 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in the Bahamas by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	9	19	8	2	0	0
15–19	393	727	555	345	212	49
20–24	809	1,415	1,281	876	646	349
25–29	750	1,478	1,554	1,219	1,016	972
30–34	613	1,110	1,335	1,082	943	1,185
35–39	368	544	678	617	708	645
40–44	112	158	154	178	232	150
45–49	14	26	21	16	14	13
50–54	0	1	1	0	0	0
All babies	3,068	5,478	5,587	4,335	3,771	3,363

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

BHS · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Bahamas

A baby born in the Bahamas in 2021 could expect 70.4 years of life, 61.5 of them in full health (95% range 60.8–62.4). That leaves 8.9 years in less than full health, fewer than the world's 9.5, which mostly means lives are shorter here, with fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

63.2 in full health, 10.3 not: 73.5 years

Men

59.8 in full health, 7.5 not: 67.3 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 63.2 healthy years of 73.5. Men: 59.8 of 67.3.

BHS · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Bahamas

At the end of 2025, the Bahamas was hosting 10 people who had crossed a border into it, fewer than 1 in every 10,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad10
Bahamas nationals abroad2,358

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 50 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from the Bahamas living in another country, wherever they are. An outlined square means fewer people than one square stands for.

In 2025, 303 people from the Bahamas asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from the Bahamas whose claims were decided that year, 68 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

BHS · of every 100 people

How people live in Bahamas

Of every 100 people in the Bahamas in 2025, 62 lived in a city, 21 in a town or suburb and 17 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 7.5 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

BHS · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Bahamas went in school

Of every 100 adults in the Bahamas in 2020, 2 never went to school and 88 finished upper secondary or went further.

2 never went to school 1 some primary 4 finished primary 5 finished lower secondary 54 finished upper secondary 34 studied after school

Among women, 0.4 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 3 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 0.5 against 3.3.

Its people aged 15 to 64, and the ones among them who finished upper secondary, are projected to be most numerous in the same year, 2030.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

BHS · cities · 2025

Cities in Bahamas

The Bahamas had 1 city in 2025, home to 249,518 people.

Nassau249,518

How to read this: the one city here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for the Bahamas are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.