her 98%

_#_Environment: 30 islands (eight inhabited); subject to frequent
hurricanes

_#_Note: located 190 km north of the Dominican Republic in the North
Atlantic Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 9,983 (July 1991), growth rate 2.2% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 25 births/1,000 population (1991)

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

_#_Net migration rate: 2 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 14 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 72 years male, 78 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 3.8 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: no noun or adjectival forms

_#_Ethnic divisions: majority of African descent

_#_Religion: Baptist 41.2%, Methodist 18.9%, Anglican 18.3%,
Seventh-Day Adventist 1.7%, other 19.9% (1980)

_#_Language: English (official)

_#_Literacy: 98% (male 99%, female 98%) age 15 and over having ever
attended school (1970)

_#_Labor force: NA; majority engaged in fishing and tourist
industries; some subsistence agriculture

_#_Organized labor: Saint George's Industrial Trade Union

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none

_#_Type: dependent territory of the UK

_#_Capital: Grand Turk (Cockburn Town)

_#_Administrative divisions: none (dependent territory of the UK)

_#_Independence: none (dependent territory of the UK)

_#_Constitution: introduced 30 August 1976, suspended in 1986, and a
Constitutional Commission is currently reviewing its contents

_#_Legal system: based on laws of England and Wales with a small
number adopted from Jamaica and The Bahamas

_#_National holiday: Constitution Day, 30 August (1976)

_#_Executive branch: British monarch, governor, Executive Council

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Council

_#_Judicial branch: Supreme Court

_#_Leaders:

Chief of State--Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1953),
represented by Governor Michael J. BRADLEY (since 1987);

Head of Government--Chief Minister Oswald O. SKIPPINGS (since
3 March 1988)

_#_Political parties and leaders:
People's Democratic Movement (PDM), Oswald SKIPPINGS;
Progressive National Party (PNP), Dan MALCOLM and Norman SAUNDERS;
National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Ariel MISSICK

_#_Suffrage: universal at age 18

_#_Elections:

Legislative Council--last held on 3 March 1988
(next to be held NA);
results--PDM 60%, PNP 30%, other 10%;
seats--(20