hore banking
sector and has moved to adopt international regulatory standards.
Saint Vincent is also a producer of marijuana and is being used as a
transshipment point for illegal narcotics from South America.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$342 million (2002 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
$428 million (2005)

GDP - real growth rate:
4.9% (2005 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$3,600 (2005 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 10%
industry: 26%
services: 64% (2001 est.)

Labor force:
41,680 (1991 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 26%
industry: 17%
services: 57% (1980 est.)

Unemployment rate:
15% (2001 est.)

Population below poverty line:
NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1% (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $94.6 million
expenditures: $85.8 million; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2000 est.)

Agriculture - products:
bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle,
sheep, pigs, goats; fish

Industries:
food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch

Industrial production growth rate:
-0.9% (1997 est.)

Electricity - production:
114 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 69.3%
hydro: 30.7%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
106 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
1,400 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Exports:
$37 million (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis
racquets

Exports - partners:
UK 26.7%, Barbados 12.7%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.3%, Saint Lucia
10.9%, US 9.2%, Dominica 7.2%, Grenada 6.8%, Antigua and Barbuda
6.2% (2005)

Imports:
$225 million (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers,
minerals and fuels

Imports - partners:
US 33.3%, Trinidad and Tobago 23.6%, UK 9.4%, Japan 4.2% (2005)

Debt - external:
$223 million (2004)

Economic aid - recipient: