Trinidad And Tobago

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Population:  1,169,682 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  24.1% (male 143,730; female 138,160) 15-64 years:  69.2% (male 415,898; female 393,551) 65 years and over:  6.7% (male 34,785; female 43,558) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  -0.51% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  13.73 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  8.82 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -9.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.06 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.8 male(s)/female total population:  1.03 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  24.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  68.27 years male:  65.74 years female:  70.92 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  1.81 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  1.05% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  7,800 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  530 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Trinidadian(s), Tobagonian(s) adjective:  Trinidadian, Tobagonian
Ethnic groups:  black 39.5%, East Indian (a local term - primarily immigrants from northern India) 40.3%, mixed 18.4%, white 0.6%, Chinese and other 1.2%
Religions:  Roman Catholic 29.4%, Hindu 23.8%, Anglican 10.9%, Muslim 5.8%, Presbyterian 3.4%, other 26.7%
Languages:  English (official), Hindi, French, Spanish, Chinese
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  97.9% male:  98.8% female:  97% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $11.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $9,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  2% industry:  44% services:  54% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:  21% (1992 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  NA% highest 10%:  NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  3.2% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  558,700 (1998)
Labor force - by occupation:  construction and utilities 12.4%, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying 14%, agriculture 9.5%, services 64.1% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate:  12.8% (2000)
Budget:  revenues:  $1.54 billion expenditures:  $1.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $117.3 million (1998)
Industries:  petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing, cement, beverage, cotton textiles
Industrial production growth rate:  3.8% (2000)
Electricity - production:  4.9 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  99.59% hydro:  0% nuclear:  0% other:  0.41% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  4.557 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  cocoa, sugarcane, rice, citrus, coffee, vegetables; poultry
Exports:  $3.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, steel products, fertilizer, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus, flowers
Exports - partners:  US 39.3%, Caricom countries 26.1%, Latin America 9.5%, EU 5.7% (1999)
Imports:  $3 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, live animals
Imports - partners:  US 39.8%, Venezuela 11.9%, EU 11%, Caricom 4.8% (1999)
Debt - external:  $2.8 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $121.4 million (1995)
Currency:  Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)
Currency code:  TTD
Exchange rates:  Trinidad and Tobago dollars per US dollar - 6.2688 (January 2001), 6.2998 (2000), 6.2989 (1999), 6.2983 (1998), 6.2517 (1997), 6.0051 (1996)
Fiscal year:  1 October - 30 September

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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