Editing Economy of the Bahamas (section)

==Statistics==
The following table shows the main economic indicators in 1980–2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Report for Selected Countries and Subjects|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2018/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=1980&ey=2023&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=313&s=NGDP_RPCH,PPPGDP,PPPPC,PCPIPCH,LUR,GGXWDG_NGDP&grp=0&a=&pr.x=83&pr.y=8|access-date=2018-09-25|language=en-US}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;"
|- style="font-weight:bold;"
! Year
! GDP<br />(in bil. US$ PPP)
! GDP per capita<br />(in US$ PPP)
!GDP
(in bil. US$ nominal)
! GDP growth<br />(real)
! Inflation<br />(in Percent)
! Unemployment rate<br />(in Percent)
! Government debt<br />(Percentage of GDP)
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 1980
| 2.51
| 11,877
|2.60
| 7.1 %
| 12.2 %
| ...
| ...
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 1985
| 3.81
| 16,296
|3.92
| 4.1 %
| 4.6 %
| ...
| ...
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 1990
| 4.99
| 19,575
|5.22
| 1.1 %
| 4.6 %
| 12.0 %
| 13 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 1995
| 5.61
| 20,103
|5.65
| 4.4 %
| 2.0 %
| 10.9 %
| 21, %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2000
| 7.79
| 25,722
|8.08
| 5.0 %
| 1.7 %
| 7.0 %
| 19 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2005
| 9.50
| 29,231
|9.84
| 3.4 %
| 1.8 %
| 10.2 %
| 23 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2006
| 10.03
| 30,512
|10.17
| 2.5 %
| 2.0 %
| 7.6 %
| 23 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2007
| 10.45
| 31,398
|10.62
| 1.4 %
| 2.4 %
| 7.9 %
| 23 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2008
| 10.41
| 30,906
|10.53
| −2.3 %
| 4.4 %
| 8.7 %
| 25 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2009
| 10.05
| 29,501
|9.98
| −4.2 %
| 1.7 %
| 14.2 %
| 30 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2010
| 10.33
| 29,986
|10.10
| 1.5 %
| 1.6 %
| 15.1 %
| 34 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2011
| 10.61
| 30,452
|10.07
| 0.6 %
| 3.1 %
| 15.9 %
| 35 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2012
| 11.14
| 31,618
|10.72
| 3.1 %
| 1.9 %
| 14.4 %
| 38 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2013
| 11.25
| 31,593
|10.40
| −0.6 %
| 0.4 %
| 15.8 %
| 44 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2014
| 11.31
| 31,410
|11.00
| −1.2 %
| 1.2 %
| 14.6 %
| 48 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2015
| 11.09
| 30,435
|11.67
| −3.1 %
| 1.9 %
| 13.4 %
| 51 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2016
| 11.25
| 30,534
|11.75
| 0.2 %
| −0.3 %
| 12.2 %
| 53 %
|-
| style="font-weight:bold;" | 2017
| 11.60
| 31,139
|12.25
| 1.3 %
| 1.4 %
| 10.1 %
| 57 %
|}
* Household income or consumption by percentage share—highest 10%: 27% (2000)
* Agriculture - products—citrus, vegetables, poultry
* Electricity - production—2,505 GWh (2007 est.) - Rank 133
* Electricity - consumption—1,793 GWh (2007) - Rank 133
* Oil - consumption—{{convert|26830|oilbbl/d|abbr=on}} (2006 est.) - Rank 115
* Oil - exports—transhipments of {{convert|29000|oilbbl/d|abbr=on}} (2003)
* Exchange rate—[[Bahamian dollar]] is pegged to the [[United States dollar|U.S. dollar]] on a one-to-one basis

The Bahamas has the 47th freest economy in the world according to [[The Heritage Foundation]] 2010 ''[[Index of Economic Freedom]]''. The Bahamas is ranked 7th out of 29 countries in the South and Central America/Caribbean region, and its overall score is higher than the regional and world averages. Total government spending, including consumption and transfer payments, is relatively low. In the most recent year,{{When|date=March 2019}} government spending was 23.4% of GDP.