ry: 23.9%
services: 68.4% (2000)
Labor force:
42,300 (1996)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 24%, industry 14%, services 62% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
12.5% (2000)
Population below poverty line:
32% (2000)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.8% (2001 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $85.8 million
expenditures: $102.1 million, including capital expenditures of $28
million (1997)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, mace, citrus, avocados, root crops,
sugarcane, corn, vegetables
Industries:
food and beverages, textiles, light assembly operations, tourism,
construction
Industrial production growth rate:
0.7% (1997 est.)
Electricity - production:
149 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
138.6 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
1,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Exports:
$46 million (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, fruit and vegetables, clothing, mace
Exports - partners:
Saint Lucia 12.7%, US 12.2%, Antigua and Barbuda 8.7%, Netherlands
7.9%, Saint Kitts and Nevis 7.8%, Dominica 7.8%, Germany 7.1%,
France 4.6% (2004)
Imports:
$208 million (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, manufactured goods, machinery, chemicals, fuel
Imports - partners:
Trinidad and Tobago 29.6%, US 27.8%, UK 4.8% (2004)
Debt - external:
$196 million (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$8.3 million (1995)
Currency (code):
East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Currency code:
XCD
Exchange rates:
East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003), 2.7
(2002), 2.7 (2001), 2.7 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Grenada
Telephones - main lines in use:
33,500 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
7,600 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: automatic, islandwide telephone system
domestic: interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
international: country code - 1-473; new SHF radiotelephone links to
Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to
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