one

_#_Coastline: 364 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; modified by northeast trade winds

_#_Terrain: generally hilly, volcanic interiors

_#_Natural resources: phosphates (Curacao only), salt (Bonaire only)

_#_Land use: arable land 8%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 92%

_#_Environment: Curacao and Bonaire are south of Caribbean hurricane
belt, so rarely threatened; Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are
subject to hurricanes from July to October

_#_Note: consists of two island groups--Curacao and Bonaire
are located off the coast of Venezuela, and Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint
Eustatius lie 800 km to the north

_*_People
_#_Population: 183,872 (July 1991), growth rate 0.2% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 18 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 10 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 8 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 74 years male, 79 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 2.0 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Netherlands Antillean(s); adjective--Netherlands
Antillean

_#_Ethnic divisions: mixed African 85%; remainder Carib Indian,
European, Latin, and Oriental

_#_Religion: predominantly Roman Catholic; Protestant, Jewish,
Seventh-Day Adventist

_#_Language: Dutch (official); Papiamento, a
Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect predominates; English widely
spoken; Spanish

_#_Literacy: 94% (male 94%, female 93%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1981)

_#_Labor force: 89,000; government 65%, industry and commerce 28%
(1983)

_#_Organized labor: 60-70% of labor force

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none

_#_Type: part of the Dutch realm--full autonomy in internal affairs
granted in 1954

_#_Capital: Willemstad

_#_Administrative divisions: none (part of the Dutch realm)

_#_Independence: none (part of the Dutch realm)

_#_Constitution: 29 December 1954, Statute of the Realm of the
Netherlands, as amended

_#_Legal system: based on Dutch civil law system, with some English
common law influence

_#_National holiday: Queen's Day, 30 April (1938)

_#_Executive branch: Dutch monarch, governor, prime minister, vice
prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet)