(1989)

External debt: $89.9 million (1993)

Industrial production: growth rate 1.8% (1992 est.); accounts for 9%
of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 12,500 kW
production: 60 million kWh
consumption per capita: 639 kWh (1993)

Industries: food and beverage, textile, light assembly operations,
tourism, construction

Agriculture: accounts for 14% of GDP and 80% of exports; bananas,
cocoa, nutmeg, and mace account for two-thirds of total crop
production; world's second-largest producer and fourth-largest
exporter of nutmeg and mace; small-sized farms predominate, growing a
variety of citrus fruits, avocados, root crops, sugarcane, corn, and
vegetables

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY84-89), $60 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $70 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $32 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

@Grenada:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,000 km
paved: 600 km
unpaved: otherwise improved 300 km; unimproved earth 100 km

Ports: Grenville, Saint George's

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 3
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1

@Grenada:Communications

Telephone system: 5,650 telephones; automatic, islandwide telephone
system; new SHF radio links to the islands of Trinidad, Tobago, and
Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to the islands of Trinidad and
Carriacou
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: SHF, VHF, and UHF radio communications

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA

@Grenada:Defense Forces

Branches: Royal Grenada Police Force, Coast Guard

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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GUADELOUPE

(overseas department of France)

@Guadeloupe:Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea, southeast
of Puerto Rico

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total area: 1,780 sq km
land area: 1,706 sq km
comparative area: 10 times the size of Washington, DC
note: Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited island