At A Glance
GDP: purchasing power parity - $726 million (2006 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 6% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $8,200 (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.5% industry: 25.8% services: 70.7%(2001)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.7% (2005 est.)
Labor force: 18,172 (June 1995)
Unemployment rate: 4.5% (1997)
Budget: revenues: $64.1 million
expenditures: $73.3 million, including capital expenditures of $10.4 million (1997 est.)
Industries: sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing, footwear, beverages
Electricity - production: 125 million kWh (2005)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 116.3 million kWh (2005)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2005)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fish
Exports: $42 million (1998)
Exports - commodities: machinery, food, electronics, beverages, tobacco
Exports - partners: US 61.9%, Canada 9.4%, Netherlands 6.6%, Azerbaijan 5% (2006)
Imports: $383 million (2006)
Imports - commodities: machinery, manufactures, food, fuels
Imports - partners: US 49.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 13.3%, UK 4.5% (2006)
Debt - external: $314 million (2004)
Economic aid - recipient: $3.52 million (2005)
Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003)
Fiscal year: calendar year
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