According to businesscarriers, GDP in current prices in 2002 amounted to 5.1 billion, per capita – 16.1 thousand US dollars. GDP in the 1990s increased by 40%, in 2001 there was a fall of 2.0%, and in 2002 an increase of 0.7%. The annual inflation rate was 1.2% in 1996/2000, increased to 2.0% in 2002. […]
Religious freedom prevails in the Bahamas. The residents are generally strongly religious and almost exclusively Christian. A wide range of Christian communities exist in the country. Most are Baptists, who make up just over one-third of the population. The second largest groups are Anglicans and Catholics. The Jamaican Rasta Movement (see Jamaica: Religion) is also […]
The largest islands in the Bahamas are Andros (5957 km ), Abaco (1681 km2), Inagua and Grand Bahama. The bedrock of the islands consists of porous limestone species, which means that streams and rivers are not formed, and the water supply must be secured by wells, collecting pools and cisterns for rainwater. The islands are […]
The Bahamas, or Bahamian Commonwealth, is an island nation on both sides of the Northern turning circle in the Caribbean. The country is a collection of more than 700 islands and 2000 islands in the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida in the United States, north of Cuba and Hispaniola, and west of the Turks and […]
