Bahamas 
Facts
Population: 305,655
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 27% (male 41,268/female 41,186)
15-64 years: 66.5% (male 99,961/female 103,230)
65 years and over: 6.5% (male 8,176/female 11,834) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.602% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 17.3 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 9.13 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -2.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.002 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.968 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.691 male(s)/female
total population: 0.956 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 24.17 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 29.58 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 18.65 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 65.66 years
male: 62.37 years
female: 69.02 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.15 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 3% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 5,600 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 200 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Bahamian(s)
adjective: Bahamian.
Ethnic groups: black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%.
Religions: Baptist 35.4%, Anglican 15.1%, Roman Catholic 13.5%, Pentecostal 8.1%, Church of God 4.8%, Methodist 4.2%, other Christian 15.2%, none or unspecified 2.9%, other 0.8% (2000 census).
Languages: English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 95.6%
male: 94.7%
female: 96.5% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $6.556 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $21,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3%
industry: 7%
services: 90% (2001 est.).
Labor force: 176,300 (2004).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 5%, industry 5%, tourism 50%, other services 40% (2005 est.).
Population below poverty line: 9.3% (2004).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: 27% (2000).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.2% (2004).
Unemployment rate: 10.2% (2005 est.).
Budget: revenues: $1.03 billion
expenditures: $1.03 billion; including capital expenditures of $130 million (FY04/05).
Agriculture - products: citrus, vegetables; poultry.
Industries: tourism, banking, cement, oil transshipment, salt, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Electricity - production: 1.795 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 1.669 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $451 million (2005 est.).
Exports - commodities: mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables.
Exports - partners: Spain 31.8%, US 30%, Poland 9%, Germany 5.4% (2005).
Imports: $2.16 billion (2005 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, mineral fuels; food and live animals.
Imports - partners: US 21.2%, South Korea 19%, Brazil 17.8%, Spain 7.3%, Germany 5% (2005).
Debt - external: $342.6 million (2004 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $5 million (2004).
Currency (code): Bahamian dollar (BSD).
Exchange rates: Bahamian dollars per US dollar - 1 (2006), 1 (2005), 1 (2004), 1 (2003), 1 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
(Independent), Marsh Harbour
http://www.abaconian.com/
(Newspaper), Nassau
http://www.jonesbahamas.com/
(Daily), Nassau
http://www.thenassauguardian.com/
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