🇨🇼 Curaçaovs🇧🇸 Bahamas

Total Population
185,457
404,634
Bahamas is 2.2× Curaçao
Median age
40.0 years
36.7 years
3.3 years apart
Elderly Population Percentage
17.84%
12.45%
5.4 percentage points apart
Growth Rate
-0.02%
0.40%
0.42 percentage points apart

Age composition in 2026:

🇨🇼 Curaçao 🇧🇸 Bahamas
Curaçao Bahamas
Young Population 14.23%26,389 17.24%69,764
Working Age Population 67.93%125,986 70.31%284,491
Elderly Population 17.84%33,082 12.45%50,379

In 2026, the median age is 40.0 years in Curaçao and 36.7 years in Bahamas.Curaçao already reached Bahamas’s current median age in 2006, about 20 years ahead in population aging.

The total population of Curaçao peaks in 2019 at 189,555.The total population of Bahamas peaks in 2050 at 424,272.

By 2050, the dependency ratio of Curaçao will be 54.5%, and 23.85% of the population will be elderly.By 2050, the dependency ratio of Bahamas will be 55.3%, and 21.17% of the population will be elderly.

Curaçao Bahamas
Demographic dividend (dependency ratio below 50%) 2007–2034 2007–2038
Aging society (65+ reaches 7%) 1992 2002 10 years later
Aged society (65+ reaches 14%) 2016 2030 14 years later
Super-aged society (65+ reaches 20%) 2031 2046 15 years later