Bahamas

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    399,285 1
    Urban
    83.00% 1
    Rural
    17.00% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    15.3% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    24 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    37 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    1.86 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    1.20% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    76 years 5
    Internet Users
    77% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$20,980 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    52,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    13.44
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    54
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    19
    First Communions per Year
    129
    Confirmations per Year
    89
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    1,501
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    1,456
    Church Marriages per Year
    16
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    7
    Priests
    19
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    10
    Catholics per Priest
    2,754
    Parishes
    30
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.