d for
about 4% of GDP and industry 10%. The economy is heavily dependent on
imports, making it vulnerable to fluctuations in world prices. Exports
consist mainly of electronic parts sold to the US.

_#_GDP: $54.2 million, per capita $4,500; real growth rate 12% (1988
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.6% (1988)

_#_Unemployment rate: 3.0% (1987)

_#_Budget: revenues $12.1 million; expenditures $14.3 million,
including capital expenditures of $3.2 million (1988)

_#_Exports: $2.3 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.);

commodities--electronic parts, plastic bags, apparel, hot peppers,
live plants, cattle;

partners--NA

_#_Imports: $30 million (c.i.f., 1988 est.);

commodities--machinery and transportation equipment, foodstuffs,
manufactured goods, fuels, lubricants, and related materials;

partners--NA

_#_External debt: $2.05 million (1987)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 8.1% (1986); accounts for
10% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 5,270 kW capacity; 12.2 million kWh produced,
980 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: tourism; light manufacturing--rum, textiles, electronic
appliances

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 4% of GDP; small-scale farming; food
crops--tomatoes, onions, peppers; not self-sufficient in food, especially
livestock products

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $75 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: 280 km total; about 200 km paved, 80 km gravel and earth

_#_Ports: Plymouth

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 1,036 m

_#_Telecommunications: 3,000 telephones; stations--8 AM, 4 FM, 1 TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Police Force

_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
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_@_Morocco
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 446,550 km2; land area: 446,300 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than California

_#_Land boundaries: 2,002 km total; Algeria 1,559 km, Western
Sahara 443 km

_#_Coastline: 1,835 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claims and administers Western Sahara, but so