Import Export leads from companies wanting to do business with Bahamas

Area: total: 13,940 sq km
land: 10,070 sq km
water: 3,870 sq km

Climate: tropical marine moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream

Terrain: long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills

Natural resources: salt, aragonite, timber, arable land

Population: 307,451
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, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 26.4% [male 40,608/female 40,506]
15-64 years: 66.9% [male 101,150/female 104,457]
65 years and over: 6.7% [male 8,472/female 12,258] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Bahamian[s]
adjective: Bahamian

Ethnic groups: black 85%, white 12%, Asian and Hispanic 3%

Languages: English [official], Creole [among Haitian immigrants]

Capital: name: Nassau
geographic coordinates: 25 05 N, 77 21 W
time difference: UTC-5 [same time as Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March ends first Sunday in November

National holiday: Independence Day, 10 July [1973]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3%
industry: 7%
services: 90% [2001 est.]

Labor force: 181,900 [2006]

Budget: revenues: $1.03 billion
expenditures: $1.03 billion [FY04/05]

Agriculture - products: citrus, vegetables poultry

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

Exports: $674 million [2006]

Exports - commodities: mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables

Exports - partners: Spain 22.8%, US 20.2%, Poland 13.8%, Germany 11.2%, UK 5.8%, Guatemala 5% [2006]

Imports: $2.401 billion [2006]

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, mineral fuels food and live animals

Imports - partners: US 24.7%, Brazil 15.7%, Japan 13.1%, South Korea 7.8%, Spain 6.2% [2006]

Currency (code): Bahamian dollar [BSD]

Exchange rates: Bahamian dollars per US dollar - 1 [2007], 1 [2006], 1 [2005], 1 [2004], 1 [2003]

Airports: 62 [2007]

Merchant marine: total: 1,213 ships [1000 GRT or over] 40,403,455 GRT/54,276,183 DWT
by type: barge carrier 1, bulk carrier 225, cargo 240, chemical tanker 84, combination ore/oil 13, container 72, liquefied gas 49, livestock carrier 2, passenger 117, passenger/cargo 34, petroleum tanker 196, refrigerated cargo 118, roll on/roll off 18, specialized tanker 4, specialized tanker 1, vehicle carrier 39
foreign-owned: 1,134 [Angola 6, Australia 3, Belgium 15, Bermuda 12, Brazil 1, Canada 13, China 9, Croatia 1, Cuba 1, Cyprus 20, Denmark 66, Finland 8, France 43, Germany 40, Greece 214, Hong Kong 3, Iceland 1, Indonesia 3, Ireland 2, Italy 1, Japan 62, Jordan 2, Kenya 1, Malaysia 11, Monaco 11, Montenegro 2, Netherlands 24, Nigeria 2, Norway 232, Philippines 1, Poland 15, Russia 5, Saudi Arabia 15, Singapore 9, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, Spain 11, Sweden 5, Switzerland 2, Taiwan 1, Thailand 1, Trinidad and Tobago 1, Turkey 5, UAE 20, UK 68, US 162, Uruguay 1, Venezuela 1]
registered in other countries: 3 [Barbados 1, Panama 2] [2007]

Ports and terminals: Freeport, Nassau, South Riding Point