Dominica 
Facts
Population: 72,386 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 25.6% (male 9,481/female 9,048)
15-64 years: 64.2% (male 23,822/female 22,656)
65 years and over: 10.2% (male 3,165/female 4,214) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.184% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 15.75 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 8.44 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -5.47 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.048 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.051 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.751 male(s)/female
total population: 1.015 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 14.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 19.68 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 9.29 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 75.1 years
male: 72.17 years
female: 78.18 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.12 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA.
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA.
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Dominican(s)
adjective: Dominican.
Ethnic groups: black 86.8%, mixed 8.9%, Carib Amerindian 2.9%, white 0.8%, other 0.7% (2001 census).
Religions: Roman Catholic 61.4%, Seventh Day Adventist 6%, Pentecostal 5.6%, Baptist 4.1%, Methodist 3.7%, Church of God 1.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.2%, other Christian 7.7%, Rastafarian 1.3%, other or unspecified 1.6%, none 6.1% (2001 census).
Languages: English (official), French patois.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
total population: 94%
male: 94%
female: 94% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $384 million (2003 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.1% (2005 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,800 (2005 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.7%
industry: 32.8%
services: 49.5% (2004 est.).
Labor force: 25,000 (1999 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 40%
industry: 32%
services: 28%.
Population below poverty line: 30% (2002 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.1% (2005 est.).
Unemployment rate: 23% (2000 est.).
Budget: revenues: $73.9 million
expenditures: $84.4 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2001).
Agriculture - products: bananas, citrus, mangoes, root crops, coconuts, cocoa; forest and fishery potential not exploited.
Industries: soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement blocks, shoes.
Industrial production growth rate: -10% (1997 est.).
Electricity - production: 83.88 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 78.01 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $74 million f.o.b. (2004 est.).
Exports - commodities: bananas, soap, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges.
Exports - partners: UK 26.8%, Jamaica 10%, South Korea 8.9%, Antigua and Barbuda 8.7%, Guyana 7.4%, Trinidad and Tobago 4.8%, US 4% (2005).
Imports: $234 million f.o.b. (2004 est.).
Imports - commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, food, chemicals.
Imports - partners: US 25.5%, China 20.5%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.4%, South Korea 7.1%, Japan 4.7%, UK 4.4% (2005).
Debt - external: $213 million (2004).
Economic aid - recipient: $29.2 million (2004 est.).
Currency (code): East Caribbean dollar (XCD).
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003), 2.7 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Chronicle, The
(Privately-owned, Weekly), Roseau
Dominica in the News
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Dominica's pursuit of an independent foreign policy and its insistence on maintaining cordial relations with Caracas might sorely test the tolerance of a putative McCain administration.
The 2006 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award was recently awarded to Sonia Pierre.
As the largest exporter of immigrants to New York City, the Dominican Republic is represented by approximately 10 percent of the 1.1 million students within the New York City public school system.
In an unsigned editorial, the Dominican newspaper Hoy lambastes governments and aid organizations for talking a good line on Haiti, but not doing enough.
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