machinery, manufactures, food, fuels
partners: US 43%, CARICOM nations 18%, UK 12%, Canada 4%, Japan 4%,
OECS 4% (1992)

External debt: $43.3 million (1992)

Industrial production: growth rate 5.9% (1992 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 15,800 kW
production: 45 million kWh
consumption per capita: 990 kWh (1993)

Industries: sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing,
footwear, beverages

Agriculture: accounts for 17% of GDP; cash crop - sugarcane;
subsistence crops - rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fishing potential
not fully exploited

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs destined
for the US

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-88), $10.7 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $67 million

Currency: 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

@Saint Kitts And Nevis:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 58 km on Saint Kitts for sugarcane
narrow gauge: 58 km 0.760-m gauge

Highways:
total: 300 km
paved: 125 km
unpaved: otherwise improved 125 km; unimproved earth 50 km

Ports: Basseterre, Charlestown

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1

@Saint Kitts And Nevis:Communications

Telephone system: 2,400 telephones; good interisland VHF/UHF/SHF radio
connections and international link via Antigua and Barbuda and Saint
Martin
local: NA
intercity: interisland links are handled by VHF/UHF/SHF radio; within
the islands all calls are local
international: international calls are carried by radio to Antigua and
Barbuda and there switched to submarine cable or to INTELSAT, or
carried to Saint Martin by radio and switched to INTELSAT

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 0, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 4
televisions: NA

@Saint Kitts And Nevis:Defense Forces

Branches: Royal Saint Kitts and Nevis Police Force, Coast Guard

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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SAINT LUCIA

@Saint Lucia:Geography

Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Trinidad
and Tobago

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total area: 620