en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas

The article places "404,818 (2026 estimate)" under the "Census" line, but the official statistics do not show any 2026 census.

The Bahamas National Statistical Institute’s official 2022 census release states: "The Official 2022 Census of Population and Housing showed the Total Population of The Bahamas to be 398,165". A separate BNSI preliminary census report lists the census years through 2022 and shows the latest census count as 399,314 provisional before the final revision to 398,165.

So the problem is twofold:

1. 2026 is not a census year in the official BNSI census publications.
2. The latest official census total is 398,165, not 404,818.

A 2026 number may be a projection or estimate from another source, but labeling it as a census figure is incorrect.

This sentence is incorrect because it attributes 407,906 people to a "2018 Census", but the Bahamas National Statistical Institute’s own census publications do not list any 2018 census.

In the BNSI preliminary 2022 census report, the official census-year table runs from 1901 to 2010 and then 2022. The final 2022 census release says the official 2022 population was 398,165. That means 2018 was not a census year, and 407,906 is not an official 2018 census count.

So this is not just an outdated figure — it mislabels a non-census estimate as a census result.

This claim misstates the Panama Papers findings.

ICIJ’s Panama Papers reporting says that more than 50 percent of the offshore entities in the leaked Mossack Fonseca data were set up in the British Virgin Islands, which it describes as the firm’s favored secrecy jurisdiction. That directly contradicts the statement that the Bahamas was the jurisdiction with the most offshore entities.

ICIJ’s later Bahamas-leak reporting is even more specific: it says Mossack Fonseca "set up 15,915 entities in the Bahamas, making it Mossack Fonseca's third busiest jurisdiction." So the Bahamas was important in the leak data, but not the top jurisdiction.

In short: the Panama Papers did not reveal that the Bahamas had the most offshore entities; they pointed primarily to the British Virgin Islands.

This sentence appears to take global offshore-wealth estimates and incorrectly assign them to The Bahamas.

The EU Tax Observatory’s Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 says global household offshore financial wealth amounted to $13.7 trillion at the end of 2021. That figure is explicitly global, not a Bahamas-only total.

By contrast, IMF and OECD material on The Bahamas places the country’s offshore financial sector at a much smaller scale:

• the IMF reported that assets under management in The Bahamas’ financial sector had fallen to US$256 billion in June 2018;
• an OECD peer review reported USD 136.8 billion in assets under management.

Those official figures are orders of magnitude below the article’s claim. So the statement is not just imprecise — it attributes worldwide offshore-wealth estimates to one country.

This is botanically incorrect. Endemic means a species is naturally found only in one place.

Authoritative plant references do not treat yellow elder as Bahamas-only. Kew’s Plants of the World Online lists Tecoma stans (the yellow elder / yellow trumpetbush used as the Bahamian national flower) as native to Tropical & Subtropical America, with a range that includes the Bahamas and many other places such as Florida, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and South America.

A regional conservation database likewise lists its native range as the West Indies, southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America and South America.

So yellow elder may be native in The Bahamas, but it is not endemic to The Bahamas.