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Bahamas

The Bahamas ( bə-HAH-məz), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space. The Bahama islands were inhabited by the Arawak and Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed on the island of San Salvador. Later, the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to Hispaniola and enslaved them there, after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, nearly all native Bahamians... [More]
  • Last : 63,075.13
  • High : 68,074.28
  • Low : 63,001.48
  • Max Fluctuation : 1,154.75
  • Max Fluctuation % : 2.34%
  • Open : 67,585.14
  • Time : 14:14:38
  • Yesterday : 67,339.34
  • Change % : 6.76%
  • Change : 4,264.21
  • Last : 2,153.48 (BSD)
  • High : 2,162.78
  • Low : 2,148.18
  • Max Fluctuation : 3.62
  • Max Fluctuation % : 0.16%
  • Open : 2,160.44
  • Time : 14:15:01
  • Yesterday : 2,160.44
  • Change % : 0.32%
  • Change : 6.96
  • Last : 82 (BSD)
  • High : 82.24
  • Low : 81.83
  • Max Fluctuation : 0.12
  • Max Fluctuation % : 0.11%
  • Open : 82.21
  • Time : 14:14:34
  • Yesterday : 82.23
  • Change % : 0.28%
  • Change : 0.23
  • Last : 0.9175 (BSD)
  • High : 0.9181
  • Low : 0.9175
  • Max Fluctuation : -
  • Max Fluctuation % : -
  • Open : -
  • Time : 18 Mar
  • Yesterday : 0.9175
  • Change % : 0%
  • Change : 0

Bahamas Currency Markets

Indicator Value Previous Low High Change Change % Time Chart
BSD/GBP Ask 0.7901 - 0.7901 0.7901 0.00 0.00% 2024/03/18 Time 11:38
GBP/BSD Ask 1.2821 - 1.2821 1.2821 0.00 0.00% 2024/03/18 Time 11:38
USD/BSD Ask 1.0069 - 1.0069 1.0069 0.00 0.00% 2024/03/18 Time 11:05
EUR/BSD Ask 1.0964 - 1.0964 1.1012 0.00 0.00% 2024/03/15 Time 16:29
BSD/USD Ask 0.9997 - 0.9997 1 0.00 0.00% 2022/05/31 Time 15:59

Economic Indicators + Forecasts

  • Actual

  • Forecast

Indicator Last Time Previous Metric
Balance of Trade
-850 -857 -857 -251
Bank Lending Rate
10.69 8.59 10.89 13.27
Building Permits
465 207 417 528
Consumer Price Index CPI
122 70.39 122 122
Coronavirus Cases
38084 0 38003 38084
Coronavirus Deaths
822 0 821 822
Coronavirus Vaccination Rate
89.36 0.03 89.29 89.36
Coronavirus Vaccination Total
366359 110 366083 366359
Corporate Tax Rate
0 0 0 0
Corruption Index
64 63 64 73
Corruption Rank
30 21 30 30
Credit Rating
37 23 Jul
Currency
1 0.99 1 1
Current Account
-484 -920 -343 373
Current Account to GDP
-14.2 -23.6 -22.6 5.6
Deposit Interest Rate
0.54 0.45 0.52 7.56
Ease of Doing Business
119 19 Dec 118
Exports
162 64.1 179 304
External Debt to GDP
42.1 3.3 40.7 42.1
Foreign Exchange Reserves
2730 18.93 2346 3331
GDP
12.9 0.17 11.53 13.06
GDP Annual Growth Rate
12.25 -37.36 5.55 36.09
GDP per capita
30284 17781 26614 33136
GDP per capita PPP
34664 26132 30463 37929
Government Budget
-5.9 -12.5 -12.5 0.33
Government Debt to GDP
88.6 23.2 93 101
IP Addresses
80351 17 Mar 76420 IP
Imports
1012 373 1036 1036
Inflation Rate
1.96 -1.42 2.03 14.24
Inflation Rate Mom
-0.2 -1 0.1 2.8
Interest Rate
4 4 4 5.25
Internet Speed
7933 17 Mar 7936 KBps
Money Supply M0
372 21 Jun 380 BSD Million
Money Supply M1
3728 21 Jun 3615 BSD Million
Money Supply M2
7773 21 Jun 7634 BSD Million
Money Supply M3
9162 2136 9168 9354
Personal Income Tax Rate
0 0 0 0
Population
0.4 0.11 0.4 0.4
Private Sector Credit
5384 1580 5383 6686
Tourist Arrivals
959 0 1009 1009
Unemployment Rate
10.1 6.9 11.7 15.7
Indicator Actual Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Metric
Consumer Price Index CPI 122 123 124 126 125 122
Currency 1 1 1 1 1 1
Current Account to GDP -14.2 -8 5.6
GDP 12.9 13.9 13.06
GDP Annual Growth Rate 12.25 5.3 6 4.2 7 36.09
GDP per capita 30284 31193 33136
GDP per capita PPP 34664 30809 37929
Government Budget -5.9 -3 0.33
Government Debt to GDP 88.6 84 101
Inflation Rate 1.96 2.3 2.6 3.3 2 14.24
Interest Rate 4 4 4 4 4 5.25
Population 0.4 0.41 0.4
Unemployment Rate 10.1 9.5 15.7
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