heep, hogs, goats; small fish catch
used locally

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $11
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $76 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: calendar year (as of January 1991); previously
1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: about 1,000 km total; 300 km paved; 400 km improved;
300 km unimproved

_#_Ports: Kingstown

_#_Merchant marine: 242 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,855,061
GRT/2,919,872 DWT; includes 1 passenger, 2 passenger-cargo, 132 cargo,
11 container, 15 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 9 refrigerated cargo,
13 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 4 chemical tanker,
4 liquefied gas, 44 bulk, 6 combination bulk, 1 vehicle carrier;
note--China owns 3 ships; a flag of convenience registry

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 6 total, 6 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: islandwide fully automatic telephone system;
6,500 telephones; VHF/UHF interisland links to Barbados and the
Grenadines; new SHF links to Grenada and Saint Lucia;
stations--2 AM, no FM, 1 TV (cable)

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force,
Coast Guard

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 28,339; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 60 km2; land area: 60 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundary: 39 km with Italy

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Climate: Mediterranean; mild to cool winters; warm, sunny summers

_#_Terrain: rugged mountains

_#_Natural resources: building stones

_#_Land use: arable land 17%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 83%

_#_Environment: dominated by the Appenines

_#_Note: landlocked; world's smallest republic; enclave of Italy

_*_People
_#_Population: 23,264 (July 1991), growth rate 0.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 8 births/1,000 population (1991)

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

_#_Net m