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
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