The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (78/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 62/100 | Labor Participation |
| Governance | 58/100 | Corruption Control |
| Quality of Life | 78/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 41/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | — | Political Violence Control |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | — | now 62, versus 62 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 41/100 | Pandemic 65 · Banking Crisis 53 · War / Conflict 13 · Natural Disaster 34 |
| Strategic Position | 41/100 | Demographics 68 · Resources 8 · Stability — · Education — · Technology 41 · Geopolitics 48 |
The Bahamas scores 60 (moderate) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: flat versus three years ago (now 62). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (78/100). The risk drawing attention: Innovation weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
The Bahamas scores 60 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (moderate) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (78/100) and its weakest is Innovation (41/100).
The Bahamas' Economy score is 62 out of 100 (moderate), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
The Bahamas' Quality of Life score is 78 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
The Bahamas' Governance score is 58 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
The Bahamas' Innovation score is 41 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, the Bahamas is unchanged versus three years ago — 62 then and now — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
The Bahamas' defining asset is corruption control, while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — patent Applications 9.97 per million — the category's weakest input (1/100).
The Bahamas' Strategic Position score is 41 out of 100 (weak), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, the Bahamas scores 52 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 41/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.