Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Capital: Nassau

Total Area: 5,382.26 sq mi,13,940.00 sq km,(slightly smaller than Connecticut)

Population: 297,852 (July 2001 est.),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

Estimated Population in 2050: 318,301

Languages: English, Creole (among Haitian immigrants)

Literacy: 98.2% total, 98.5% male, 98% female (1995 est.)

Religions: Baptist 32%, Anglican 20%, Roman Catholic 19%, Methodist 6%, Church of God 6%, other Protestant 12%, none or unknown 3%, other 2%

Life Expectancy: 67.27 male, 73.71 female (2001 est.)

Government Type: constitutional parliamentary democracy

Currency: 1 Bahamian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

GDP (per capita): $15,000 (2000 est.)

Industry: tourism, banking, cement, oil refining and transshipment, salt, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe

Agriculture: citrus, vegetables; poultry

Arable Land: 1%

Natural Resources: salt, aragonite, timber, arable land

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