Currency · Live data
Bahamian Dollar
BSDBahamas · Issued by Central Bank of The Bahamas
Price (USD)
$1.0000
Inflation (2024)
+0.41%
10y M2 change
—
M69 Score
97.3
USD-pegged 1:1
Market Cap (USD)
—
M2 source: World Bank
M2 (local currency)
—
broad money
CPI YoY (2024)
+0.41%
World Bank · annual
Country
Bahamas
ISO 4217 · BSD
Last Update
2026-04-25
Daily ingest · 02:00 UTC
Bahamian Dollar M2 money supply
Broad money in BSD (cash + deposits + close substitutes), annual back to ~1960 via World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.CN. Log scale auto-engages for hyperinflation outliers.
No M2 history available yet for BSD. World Bank coverage may be limited for this currency — direct central-bank feeds in a future release.
Bahamian Dollar inflation history
Annual CPI YoY since 2001 — World Bank consumer price index for Bahamas. Inflation volatility is one of three inputs into the Money2069 sound-money score.
Purchasing power calculator
How much would your Bahamian Dollar be worth today if you'd held it since…?
100 BSD in 2001 buys today
39.00 BSDworth of goods
Lost 61% of purchasing power since 2001.
To match 2001 purchasing power, you need today
256.41 BSD
46 years of cumulative inflation.
Calculation: cumulative product of (1 + CPI YoY) from the chosen year through 2024. Source: World Bank consumer price index (annual). Daily-refreshed.
Data sources & methodology
- FX (USD):
- Frankfurter / ECB · daily
- CPI YoY:
- World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · annual
- M2 broad money:
- World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.CN · annual (LCU)
- Market cap (USD):
- M2 / FX rate · daily
- 10-year M2 change:
- (M2 today / M2 10y ago) − 1
- M69 score:
- Weighted: CPI (50%), 10y M2 growth (40%), 1y FX stability (10%)
- Last fetched:
- 2026-04-25 16:02:28
- Country code (ISO 3166-1):
- BHS
Note: USD-pegged 1:1
Raw data: /api/v1/currencies/current/BSD
Frequently asked questions
Who issues the Bahamian Dollar?+
The Bahamian Dollar (BSD) is issued by Central Bank of The Bahamas. As the monetary authority for Bahamas, it sets policy interest rates, manages foreign reserves, and controls the money supply.
What is the inflation rate of the Bahamian Dollar?+
Latest available consumer price inflation for the Bahamian Dollar: 0.41% YoY (2024). Source: World Bank annual series (FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG). Daily-refreshed historical chart on this page.
Has the Bahamian Dollar been debased?+
Every fiat currency loses purchasing power over time as central banks expand the money supply. broad-money data is being added in our next release. Combined with cumulative inflation, this is the gap between BSD as accounting unit and BSD as a store of value.
Is the Bahamian Dollar sound money?+
On the Money2069 0–100 sound-money scale, the Bahamian Dollar currently scores 97.3. The score weights inflation volatility, 10-year money-supply growth, and 1-year FX stability. Higher = closer to sound. No fiat scores 100 because no fiat has zero issuance.
How does the Bahamian Dollar compare to gold or the US dollar?+
Use the table on the listing page to sort all 138 tracked currencies by inflation, 10-year M2 change, or M69 score. Pegged currencies (USD-pegged dirham, riyal, etc.) inherit the dollar's debasement profile; floating currencies tell their own story.
How often is this data updated?+
We pull fresh exchange rates daily from Frankfurter (ECB-sourced) and refresh the inflation series from the World Bank. The page is statically rendered with 24-hour ISR. Source data is publicly accessible via our /api/v1/currencies endpoints.