The Bahamas vs Equatorial Guinea: Economic Indicators Comparison

Equatorial Guinea with a GDP of $13.4B ranked the 132nd largest economy in the world, while the Bahamas ranked 137th with $12.4B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Equatorial Guinea and the Bahamas ranked 179th vs 160th and 73rd vs 31st, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Bahamas	Equatorial Guinea
GDP	$12.4B	$13.4B
GDP growth, 1 year	2.3%	-5.7%
GDP growth, 5-years average	0.6%	-5.6%
Population	395k	1.3M
GDP per capita	$32k	$10k
GDP per capita growth	0.54%	-9.5%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	1	250.74
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	1	0.45
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$33k	$23k
GNI, Atlas method	$11.8B	$9B
GNI per capita	$31k	$6.8k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$11.7B	$22.9B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$30k	$17k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Bahamas	Equatorial Guinea
Income Tax Rate	0%	35%
Corporate Tax Rate	0%	35%
Inflation, consumer prices	2.2%	1.3%
Inflation, GDP deflator	0.7%	11.2%
Unemployment	11.9%	9.2%
Economic Freedom Index	64.5	48.3
Personal Freedom Index	8.32	6.6
Human Freedom Index	7.97	6.6
Property Rights Index	54.9	38.1
Judical Effectiveness Index	46.4	19.5
Business Freedom Index	69	37.5
Fiscal Health Index	69.2	77.2
Labor Freedom Index	70	34.2
Investment Freedom Index	50	40
Financial Freedom Index	60	30
Trade Freedom Index	47.8	48.8
Monetary Freedom Index	76.3	78.1
Government Spending Index	87.4	86.4
Tax Burden Index	96.8	75.1
Government Integrity Index	46	15.1
Corruption Perceptions Index	65	16
Life expectancy at birth, years	73.6	58.1
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	1.7	16.4
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	13.8	24.6
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	30.9	2.3
International tourism, number of arrivals	1.6M	N/A

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Bahamas	Equatorial Guinea
Central government debt, % of GDP	61%	35.9%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	N/A	N/A
External debt stocks	N/A	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	N/A	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	7.1%	N/A
Gross savings, % of GDP	12.7%	N/A
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	24.5%	15.5%
Total reserves including gold	$1.4B	$48.9M
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$491.4M	$395.9M

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Bahamas	Equatorial Guinea
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	36.1%	58.1%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	41.3%	43.3%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$1.5B	-$344M
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	16.4%	17.2%
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$1.7M	$7.2M
Personal remittances received	N/A	$164k
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	13%	56.7%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	0.9%	2.4%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$10.3M	N/A
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	N/A
Expense, % of GDP	17.9%	9.8%
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	20.5%	21.3%