Bahamas
Deep-built16.7% circumcision prevalence
Prevalence of non-therapeutic male circumcision.
Research coverage
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Sources · Citations
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Verifications · Independent
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Structured claims · Evidence-based
Jul 9, 2026
Last updated · deep-built
Research note: Bahamas DEEP_BUILT 2026-07-11. CRITICAL CORRECTION: Morris 2016's commonly-cited 0.2% figure was REFUTED on adversarial review (a religious-demography extrapolation invalid for this Protestant-majority country) and explicitly excluded. Real figure: 16.7% self-reported (George et al. 2019, PMC6704421, 2014-15 survey of 797 Bahamian adolescent males, confirmed 3-0) — largely hospital-based, non-religious, family-preference driven (90.8% of circumcised youth intend to circumcise their own sons vs 47.2% of uncircumcised youth). 35% of uncircumcised youth open to VMMC; study concluded a program "should be feasible" but none has been piloted/scaled beyond academic stage (honest gap). No statute found (not on ARC Law's list); no verified harm case (honest gap). HIV ~1.1% (2023-24, UNAIDS/World Bank modeled estimate) — one of the higher Caribbean rates. UNREGULATED. NOT VMMC priority. Sources #1430-1437. FIRST of Batch 3 (Caribbean): Bahamas/Belize/Cuba/Jamaica/Trinidad and Tobago.
Research claims
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Legal status
UnregulatedThis research did not locate a Bahamian statute specifically addressing non-therapeutic male circumcision. The Bahamas does not appear on ARC Law's compiled global list of countries known to regulate the practice (which includes only Sweden, South Africa, Australia, and Germany). This research did not independently verify the Bahamas's female genital mutilation legal status either. Female genital mutilation is a separate matter and must not be conflated with male circumcision.
Medical & HIV context
1.1%
Adult HIV prevalence
UNAIDS/WB (2023) · Adults 15–49
mixed
Circumcision in newborns
Non-therapeutic (cultural practice)
infancy (hospital)
Typical age
Benchmarks are international context — not a local complication rate.
Incident registry
No verified incidents are currently recorded for Bahamas.
This absence should not be read as proof that harm does not occur — only that no verified, sourced case has been documented in this database yet.