Statistics
GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.61 billion (2008 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 189
GDP - real growth rate: 2.1% (2008 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 161
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $19,000 (2008 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 64
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.8% industry: 22% services: 74.3% (2002 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5% (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 14
Labor force: 30,000 (1991)
- country comparison to the world: 197
Unemployment rate: 11% (2001 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 130
Budget: revenues: $123.7 million
expenditures: $145.9 million (2000 est.)
Central bank discount rate: 6.5% (January 2008)
- country comparison to the world: 57
Agriculture - products: cotton, fruits, vegetables, bananas, coconuts, cucumbers, mangoes, sugarcane; livestock
Industries: tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol, household appliances)
Electricity - production: 105 million kWh (2006)
- country comparison to the world: 188
Electricity - consumption: 97.65 million kWh (2006)
- country comparison to the world: 189
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2007)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2007)
Oil - production: 0 bbl/d (0 m3/d) (2007)
- country comparison to the world: 116
Oil - consumption: 4,109 bbl/d (653.3 m3/d) (2006 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 169
Oil - exports: 157.7 bbl/d (25.07 m3/d) (2005)
- country comparison to the world: 132
Oil - imports: 4,556 bbl/d (724.3 m3/d) (2005)
- country comparison to the world: 161
Oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (0 m3) (1 January 2006 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 99
Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 209
Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 209
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2006 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 206
Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2006)
- country comparison to the world: 205
Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 206
Exports: $84.3 million (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 199
Exports - commodities: petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, machinery and transport equipment 17%, food and live animals 4%, other 8%
Exports - partners: Spain 34%, Germany 20.7%, Italy 7.7%, Singapore 5.8%, UK 4.9% (2006)
Imports: $522.8 million (2007 est.)
- country comparison to the world: 189
Imports - commodities: food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil
Imports - partners: US 21.1%, China 16.4%, Germany 13.3%, Singapore 12.7%, Spain 6.5% (2006)
Debt - external: $359.8 million (June 2006)
- country comparison to the world: 169
Economic aid - recipient: $7.23 million (2005)
Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003) note: fixed rate since 1976
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
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