World population/Bahamas
North America
Population of Bahamas
404,634
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#178
world rank
0.00%
of world population
+0.37%
yearly change
+1,491
people this year
4,268
births a year
3,642
deaths a year
How the figure for Bahamas is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Bahamas at 404,634 on 1 July 2026, and projects 406,125 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Bahamas at number 178 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.00 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 4,268 births and 3,642 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.