Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Haitian Creole (secondary) · Modern Greek (secondary) · Modern Greek (biblical terms) (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Bahamas

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Afro-Bahamian	251000	Bahamas English Creole	Christianity
Bahamian	96000	English	Christianity
Haitian	32000	Haitian Creole	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	8500	English	Christianity
Jamaican	6400	English	Christianity
British	5000	English	Christianity
Greek	1100	Greek	Christianity

Languages

4 languages recorded here.

Bahamas English Creole

English

Greek

Haitian Creole

All catalogue fields

145 fields recorded

rog3: BF
iso3: BHS
iso2: BS
ctry: Bahamas
poplpeoples: 400000
cntpeoples: 7
jpscalectry: 5
rol3officiallanguage: eng
officiallang: English
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
percentchristianity: 94.533691566604
percentevangelical: 40.130222011695
c_10_40window: N
rog2: NAR
continent: North America
regioncode: 12
regionname: America, North and Caribbean
harvest_rog3: BF
harvest_iso3: BHS
harvest_iso2: BS
harvest_owcountrycode: BAHA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: BS
harvest_countrynumber: 15
harvest_ctry: Bahamas
harvest_ctryshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamechinese: 巴哈马
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 巴哈马
harvest_countrynamedutch: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamefrench: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamegerman: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Bahama
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Bahama
harvest_countrynameitalian: Bahamas
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamekorean: 바하마
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 바하마
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Bahamas
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamerussian: Багамы
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Багамы
harvest_countrynamespanish: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Bahamas
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Bahamas
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: des
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: auf den
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: på
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: em
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en las
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
harvest_rog2: NAR
harvest_regioncode2414: 9
harvest_regioncode: 12
harvest_unsr: 029
harvest_worldabc: C
harvest_capital: Nassau
harvest_population: 403000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/bahamas.html
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-caribbean-islands.pdf
harvest_jpscale: 5
harvest_c_10_40window: N
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
harvest_owpctevang: 35.9
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 16.118958
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 2.5
harvest_owcountrypage: bahamas-the
harvest_literacyrate: 97
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 83
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 1
harvest_rlg4primary: 3
harvest_pctanimist: 1.05
harvest_pctbahai: 0.45
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0.05
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 0
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.3
harvest_pctnonreligious: 3.5
harvest_pctother: 0
harvest_pctchristian: 94.65000000000001
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 61.38
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 9.140000000000001
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 13.68
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 14.38
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0.16
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 1.87
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 2.14
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: -8.100001156952125
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A007
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.792
harvest_hdirank: 58
harvest_internetusers: 80
harvest_flashmapzoom: 1141
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -237
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -441
harvest_googlemapzoom: 7
harvest_googlemaplat: 24.25
harvest_googlemaplng: -78
harvest_ctrylatitude: 25.03428
harvest_ctrylongitude: -77.39628
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/bahamas/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 401
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 1.017811704834606
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=bs&joshua=bf
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-bahamas
harvest_internetusage: 85
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://biblesocietywi.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 5359
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 13939
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 56
harvest_countryphonecode: 809
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 94.7
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 30
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 71.59999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 33.2
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 92.39
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 30.8
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .bs
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/bahamas-the/
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00