St. Vincent and the Grenadines :
Sovereign :
Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Governor-General :
Frederick Ballantyne (2002)
Prime Minister :
Ralph Gonsalves (2001)
Total area :
150 sq mi (389 sq km)
Population (2007 est.) :
118,149 (growth rate: 0.2%); birth rate: 16.0/1000; infant mortality rate: 14.0/1000; life expectancy: 74.1; density per sq mi: 903
Capital and largest city (2003 est.) :
Kingstown, 17,600
Monetary unit :
East Caribbean dollar
Languages :
English, French patois
Ethnicity/race :
black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7%
Religions :
Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%, Hindu, Seventh-Day Adventist, other Protestant
Literacy rate :
96% (1970 est.)
_GDP/PPP :
(2007 est.): $1.042 billion; per capita $9,800.
_Real growth rate :
6.6%.
_Unemployment :
15% (2001 est.).
_Agriculture :
bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish.
_Labor force :
41,680 (1991 est); agriculture 26%, industry 17%, services 57% (1980 est.).
_Industries :
food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch.
_Natural resources :
hydropower, cropland.
_Exports :
$193 million (2006): bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets.
_Imports :
$578 million (2006): foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels.
_Major trading partners :
UK, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, U.S., Grenada, Dominica (2004).
_Telephones :
main lines in use: 22,600 (2006); mobile cellular: 87,600 (2006)
_Radio broadcast stations :
AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004).
_Television broadcast stations :
1 (plus three repeaters) (2004).
_Televisions :
18,000 (1997).
_Internet Service Providers (ISPs) :
97 (2007).
_Internet users :
10,000 (2005).
_Highways :
total: 829 km; paved: 580 km; unpaved: 249 km (2003 est.).
_Ports and harbors :
Kingstown
International disputes :
protests Venezuela's claim to give full effect to Aves Island, which creates a Venezuelan EEZ/continental shelf extending over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines :
Sovereign :
Queen Elizabeth II (1952)
Governor-General :
Frederick Ballantyne (2002)
Prime Minister :
Ralph Gonsalves (2001)
Total area :
150 sq mi (389 sq km)
Population (2007 est.) :
118,149 (growth rate: 0.2%); birth rate: 16.0/1000; infant mortality rate: 14.0/1000; life expectancy: 74.1; density per sq mi: 903
Capital and largest city (2003 est.) :
Kingstown, 17,600
Monetary unit :
East Caribbean dollar
Languages :
English, French patois
Ethnicity/race :
black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7%
Religions :
Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%, Hindu, Seventh-Day Adventist, other Protestant
Literacy rate :
96% (1970 est.)
_GDP/PPP :
(2007 est.): $1.042 billion; per capita $9,800.
_Real growth rate :
6.6%.
_Unemployment :
15% (2001 est.).
_Agriculture :
bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish.
_Labor force :
41,680 (1991 est); agriculture 26%, industry 17%, services 57% (1980 est.).
_Industries :
food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch.
_Natural resources :
hydropower, cropland.
_Exports :
$193 million (2006): bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets.
_Imports :
$578 million (2006): foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels.
_Major trading partners :
UK, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, U.S., Grenada, Dominica (2004).
_Telephones :
main lines in use: 22,600 (2006); mobile cellular: 87,600 (2006)
_Radio broadcast stations :
AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004).
_Television broadcast stations :
1 (plus three repeaters) (2004).
_Televisions :
18,000 (1997).
_Internet Service Providers (ISPs) :
97 (2007).
_Internet users :
10,000 (2005).
_Highways :
total: 829 km; paved: 580 km; unpaved: 249 km (2003 est.).
_Ports and harbors :
Kingstown
