es): - 1.1% (1986)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $3.2 million; expenditures $2.9 million,
including capital expenditures of NA (1984)

_#_Exports: $23.9 thousand (f.o.b., 1984);

commodities--fish (frozen and salt-dried skipjack, tuna),
handicrafts;

partners--South Africa, UK

_#_Imports: $2.4 million (c.i.f., 1984);

commodities--food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed,
building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts;

partners--UK, South Africa

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 9,800 kW capacity; 10 million kWh produced,
1,390 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fish

_#_Agriculture: maize, potatoes, vegetables; timber production being
developed; crawfishing on Tristan da Cunha

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $184 million

_#_Currency: Saint Helenian pound (plural--pounds);
1 Saint Helenian pound (5S) = 100 pence

_#_Exchange rates: Saint Helenian pounds (5S) per US$1--0.5171
(January 1991), 0.5603 (1990), 0.6099 (1989), 0.5614 (1988), 0.6102
(1987), 0.6817 (1986), 0.7714 (1985); note--the Saint Helenian pound is
at par with the British pound

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 87 km bitumen-sealed roads, 20 km earth roads on
Saint Helena; 80 km bitumen-sealed on Ascension; 2.7 km bitumen-sealed on
Tristan da Cunha

_#_Ports: Jamestown (Saint Helena), Georgetown (Ascension)

_#_Merchant marine: 1 passenger-cargo ship totaling 6,767 GRT/5,600
DWT

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 2,440-3,659 m on
Ascension

_#_Telecommunications: 1,500 radio receivers; stations--1 AM,
no FM, no TV; 550 telephones in automatic network; HF radio links to
Ascension, then into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks;
major coaxial cable relay point between South Africa, Portugal, and UK at
Ascension; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
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_@_Saint Kitts and Nevis
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 269 km2; land area: 269 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than 1.5 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 135 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

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