Saint Vincent Grenadines

Facts

Population:  115,942 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  29.61% (male 17,466; female 16,865) 15-64 years:  64.04% (male 38,074; female 36,179) 65 years and over:  6.35% (male 3,162; female 4,196) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  0.4% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  17.91 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  6.16 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -7.72 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.75 male(s)/female total population:  1.03 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  16.61 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  72.56 years male:  70.83 years female:  74.34 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.06 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  NA%
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  NA
Nationality:  noun:  Saint Vincentian(s) or Vincentian(s) adjective:  Saint Vincentian or Vincentian
Ethnic groups:  black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%
Religions:  Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%, Seventh-Day Adventist, Hindu, other Protestant
Languages:  English, French patois
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over has ever attended school total population:  96% male:  96% female:  96% (1970 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $322 million (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $2,800 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  10.6% industry:  17.5% services:  71.9% (1996 est.)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  2% (1999 est.)
Labor force:  67,000 (1984 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture 26%, industry 17%, services 57% (1980 est.)
Unemployment rate:  22% (1997 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $85.7 million expenditures:  $98.6 million, including capital expenditures of $25.7 million (1997 est.)
Industries:  food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch
Industrial production growth rate:  -0.9% (1997 est.)
Electricity - production:  82 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  73.17% hydro:  26.83% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  76.3 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish
Exports:  $53.7 million (2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets
Exports - partners:  Caricom countries 49%, UK 16%, US 10% (1995)
Imports:  $185.6 million (2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels
Imports - partners:  US 36%, Caricom countries 28%, UK 13% (1995)
Debt - external:  $99.3 million (1998)
Economic aid - recipient:  $47.5 million (1995); note - EU $34.5 million (1998)
Currency:  East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Currency code:  XCD
Exchange rates:  East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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