Bahamas
1.5 points below what its income predicts · expected 43.7% at its GDP per capita
Bahamas ranks 6 of 25 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean: 42.2% of its task time is at least partly delegable, above the world figure of 35.2% and 6.5 points below high-income countries.
| Indicator | Bahamas | Rank in region | Highest in region | Region | High income | World | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegability | |||||||
| ADI: task time at least partly delegable (L2–L3) | 42.2 | 6 of 25 | Puerto Rico (49.9) | 37.7 | 48.7 | 35.2 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADI3: task time fully delegable (L3) | 3.5 | 5 of 25 | Puerto Rico (4.9) | 3.0 | 3.7 | 2.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| ADIs: expected share of working time delegable | 33.5 | 6 of 25 | Puerto Rico (38.7) | 31.0 | 37.4 | 29.5 | ADI v2026.1 |
| Adoption | |||||||
| AI use per working-age adult (index) | – | – | Uruguay (1.83) | 0.96 | 2.80 | 1.53 | Anthropic Economic Index |
| Context | |||||||
| GDP per capita, PPP (constant 2021 international $) | 36,244 | 4 of 25 | Guyana (83,659) | 24,615 | 56,341 | 27,620 | World Bank WDI |
| Informal employment, % of total employment | 15.5 | 1 of 22 | Bahamas (15.5) | 53.4 | 12.5 | 50.2 | ILOSTAT |
Region: the 25 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the atlas (World Bank regions). Delegability rows are employment-weighted means; adoption and context rows are simple means over countries with data. For informality, rank 1 is the lowest. With equal weights inside reported groups, the preregistered sensitivity check, Bahamas’s ADI is 42.5%.
Bahamas against the delegation divide
Each flag is a country; the dashed line is what GDP per capita alone predicts. Latin America and the Caribbean keeps its colours, the rest is grey. Bahamas is 1.5 points below what its income predicts.
Balam Labs · Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 · balamlabs.org/adi
Who works in Bahamas, and how delegable their tasks are
Technicians and associate professionals and clerical support workers supply 39% of Bahamas’s delegable task time while employing 22% of its workers.
Hover a block to read one group. Shade: the group’s ADI, light 10% to dark 85%.
| Major group | Employment, Bahamas | World | ADI of group, Bahamas | Points of ADI, Bahamas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Managers | 7.7% | 3.9% | 84.4 | 6.5 |
| 4 · Clerical support workers | 9.5% | 5.0% | 82.0 | 7.8 |
| 2 · Professionals | 10.4% | 11.2% | 66.2 | 6.9 |
| 3 · Technicians and associate professionals | 12.3% | 6.7% | 70.1 | 8.6 |
| 5 · Service and sales workers | 26.7% | 17.8% | 28.0 | 7.5 |
| 8 · Plant and machine operators and assemblers | 4.5% | 7.6% | 13.7 | 0.6 |
| 6 · Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers | 2.4% | 21.9% | 17.6 | 0.4 |
| 7 · Craft and related trades workers | 11.7% | 10.8% | 19.8 | 2.3 |
| 9 · Elementary occupations | 14.8% | 15.2% | 10.3 | 1.5 |
Barriers, weighted by its jobs
The largest gap with the world is physical presence: 65% of task weight against 72% worldwide, a lighter brake on agents.
| Barrier | Share of task weight | BHS | World |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical presence | 65% | 72% | |
| Accountability | 30% | 26% | |
| Trust and care | 31% | 26% | |
| Access to systems | 61% | 59% |
Dashed tick: world, weighting the same tasks by world employment. A task can carry more than one barrier.
Delegable work and actual AI use
The Anthropic Economic Index has no usage figure for Bahamas; it covers 101 of the 146 countries.
Bahamas among the four income groups
Ring colour: income group. Vertical tick: employment-weighted mean of the row.
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Within its region
Bahamas sits between Saint Lucia (42.4%) and Jamaica (40.5%); Puerto Rico leads the region at 49.9% and Ecuador closes it at 29.3%.
| Country | ADI | % |
|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 49.9 | |
| Curaçao | 48.5 | |
| Barbados | 44.8 | |
| Argentina | 43.4 | |
| Saint Lucia | 42.4 | |
| Bahamas | 42.2 | |
| Jamaica | 40.5 | |
| Chile | 40.0 | |
| Brazil | 39.9 | |
| Colombia | 38.3 | |
| Uruguay | 38.2 | |
| Belize | 37.9 | |
| Costa Rica | 37.8 | |
| Dominican Republic | 37.2 | |
| Mexico | 36.8 | |
| Paraguay | 36.2 | |
| Panama | 34.4 | |
| El Salvador | 33.6 | |
| Guyana | 33.3 | |
| Peru | 33.0 | |
| Bolivia | 31.1 | |
| Honduras | 30.9 | |
| Guatemala | 30.3 | |
| Grenada | 29.7 | |
| Ecuador | 29.3 |
Dashed line: regional employment-weighted mean, 37.7%. World: 35.2%.
Espinal Maya, Cristian, and Santiago Jiménez Londoño. 2026. ADI v2026.1: Agent Delegability Index data, code and MCP server. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23552918. Record: Bahamas (BHS), https://balamlabs.org/adi/countries/BHS
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author = {Espinal Maya, Cristian and Jim{\'e}nez Londo{\~n}o, Santiago},
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