bbean 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
_%_
_@_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;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: focus of maritime boundary dispute between Canada and
France

_#_Climate: cold and wet, with much mist and fog; spring and autumn
are windy

_#_Terrain: mostly barren rock

_#_Natural resources: fish, deepwater ports

_#_Land use: arable land 13%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
pastures 0%; forest and woodland 4%; other 83%

_#_Environment: vegetation scanty

_#_Note: located 25 km south of Newfoundland, Canada, in the
North Atlantic Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 6,356 (July 1991), growth rate 0.4% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 17 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 6 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 9 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 72 years male, 79 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 2.2 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Frenchman(men), Frenchwoman(women);
adjective--French

_#_Ethnic divisions: originally Basques and Bretons (French fishermen)

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic 98%

_#_Language: French

_#_Literacy: 99% (male 99%, female 99%)