2005)
Imports:
$276 million (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, manufactured goods, machinery, chemicals, fuel
Imports - partners:
Trinidad and Tobago 27.6%, US 26.8%, UK 5.9% (2005)
Debt - external:
$347 million (2004)
Economic aid - recipient:
$15.4 million (2004)
Currency (code):
East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Currency code:
XCD
Exchange rates:
East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7
(2003), 2.7 (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Grenada
Telephones - main lines in use:
32,700 (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
43,300 (2004)
Telephone system:
general assessment: automatic, islandwide telephone system
domestic: interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
international: country code - 1-473; new SHF radiotelephone links to
Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to
Trinidad
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
57,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
2 (1997)
Televisions:
33,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.gd
Internet hosts:
17 (2006)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
14 (2000)
Internet users:
19,000 (2005)
Transportation Grenada
Airports:
3 (2006)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)
Roadways:
total: 1,127 km
paved: 687 km
unpaved: 440 km (1999)
Ports and terminals:
Saint George's
Military Grenada
Military branches:
no regular military forces; Royal Grenada Police Force
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 24,031 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 17,483 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 1,274 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
NA
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA
Transnational Issues Grenada
Disputes - international:
none
Illicit drugs:
small-scale cannabis cultivation; lesser transshipment point for
marijuana and cocaine to US
This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007
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Introduction Guam
Background:
Guam was ceded to the US by Spain in 1898. Captured by the Japanese
in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years
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