_#_Flag: blue with a gold isosceles triangle below a black arrowhead;
the upper edges of the arrowhead have a white border
_*_Economy
_#_Overview: Since 1983 the economy has shown an impressive average
annual growth rate of almost 5% because of strong agricultural and
tourist sectors. Saint Lucia also possesses an expanding
industrial base supported by foreign investment in manufacturing and
other activities, such as in data processing. The economy, however,
remains vulnerable because the important agricultural sector is dominated
by banana production. Saint Lucia is subject to periodic droughts and/or
tropical storms, and its protected market agreement with the UK for
bananas may end in 1992.
_#_GDP: $273 million, per capita $1,830; real growth rate 4.0% (1989)
_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.4% (1989)
_#_Unemployment rate: 16.0% (1988)
_#_Budget: revenues $131 million; expenditures $149 million,
including capital expenditures of $71 million (FY90 est.)
_#_Exports: $111.9 million (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--bananas 54%, clothing 17%, cocoa, vegetables, fruits,
coconut oil;
partners--UK 51%, CARICOM 20%, US 19%, other 10%
_#_Imports: $265.9 million (c.i.f., 1989);
commodities--manufactured goods 23%, machinery and transportation
equipment 27%, food and live animals 18%, chemicals 10%, fuels 6%;
partners--US 35%, CARICOM 16%, UK 15%, Japan 7%, Canada 4%,
other 23%
_#_External debt: $54.5 million (1989)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 3.5% (1990 est.); accounts for
7% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 32,500 kW capacity; 112 million kWh produced,
730 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: clothing, assembly of electronic components, beverages,
corrugated boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and 43% of labor force;
crops--bananas, coconuts, vegetables, citrus fruit, root crops, cocoa;
imports food for the tourist industry
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $118 million
_#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural--dollars);
1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70
(fixed rate since 1976)
_#_Fiscal Year: 1 April-31 March
_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 760 km total; 500 km paved; 260 km otherwise improved
_#_Ports: Castries
_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
1 with runways 1,220-2,439
_#_Telecommunications: fully automatic telephone system;
9,500 telephones; direct radio relay link with Martinique and
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; interisland troposcatter link to
Barbados; stations--4 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV (cable)
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, Coast Guard
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 38,050; NA fit for military
service
_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_@_Saint Pierre and Miquelon
(territorial collectivity of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 242 km2; land area: 242 km2; includes eight small
islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups
_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of
Washington, DC
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 120 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;