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Bahamas, The Urban Population

Bahamas, The urban population: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.

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Series overview

SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS

COUNTRY: Bahamas, TheINDICATOR: SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZSUNIT: percentSOURCE: World Bank Indicators APISOURCE KEY: worldbankDATA UPDATED: 2026-07-13 02:00:00FETCHED: 2026-09-28 23:33:32REVISIONS: 24ORIGINAL API RESPONSE

81,33Latest / 2025

0,01Change from previous

81,65Series average

53Global rank / 217

Bahamas, The / Urban Population Unit: Percent (%)

Selected year: 202581,33%

201620252025

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Year	Value	Change
2025	81,33	0,01
2024	81,32	0,00
2023	81,32	0,00
2022	81,32	-0,16
2021	81,48	-0,19
2020	81,66	-0,16
2019	81,83	-0,14
2018	81,96	-0,12
2017	82,08	-0,10
2016	82,18	—

Source methodology

World Development Indicators

Indicator note: Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Source organization: World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division

Metadata fetched: 2026-09-27 07:05:55. Open original metadata response.

Revision history

24 detected changes

Source revisions are retained before the current observation is replaced. This table documents the previous and replacement value for reproducibility.

Detected	Data year	Previous value	Replacement value	Source	Source update
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2020	81,66	81,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2021	81,48	81,48	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2022	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2023	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2024	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-28 21:33:32	2025	81,33	81,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2020	81,66	81,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2021	81,48	81,48	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2022	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2023	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2024	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-09-09 17:32:12	2025	81,33	81,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2020	81,66	81,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2021	81,48	81,48	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2022	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2023	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2024	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-08 10:23:44	2025	81,33	81,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2020	81,66	81,66	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2021	81,48	81,48	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2022	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2023	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2024	81,32	81,32	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00
2026-08-05 18:01:43	2025	81,33	81,33	World Bank Indicators API	2026-07-13 02:00:00

Country-specific interpretation

Automatically derived from the displayed series

Bahamas, The recorded 81,33 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.

Compared with 2024, the urban population increased by 0,01.

Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.

Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 81,65; the minimum was 81,32 in 2022 and the maximum was 82,18 in 2016.

Bahamas, The ranks 53 out of 217 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.

The latest value is above the available average for Latin America & Caribbean.

It is also above the available average for the High income group.

Urbanization and settlement structure.

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