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2.5% services: 83.5% (1996 est.) Population below poverty line: NA% Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% Inflation rate (consumer prices): -1.1% (1997) Labor force: 30,000 Labor force--by occupation: commerce and services 82%, agriculture 11%, industry 7% (1983) Unemployment rate: 9% (1997 est.) Budget: revenues: $122.6 million expenditures: $141.2 million, including capital expenditures of $17.3 million (1997 est.) Industries: tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol, household appliances) Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1997 est.) Electricity--production: 95 million kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 95 million kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: cotton, fruits, vegetables, bananas, coconuts, cucumbers, mangoes, sugarcane; livestock Exports: $37.8 million (1997) Exports--commodities: petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, food and live animals 4%, machinery and transport equipment 17% Exports--partners: OECS 26%, Barbados 15%, Guyana 4%, Trinidad and Tobago 2%, US 0.3% Imports: $325.5 million (1997) Imports--commodities: food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil Imports--partners: US 27%, UK 16%, Canada 4%, OECS 3%, other 50% Debt--external: $240 million (1997 est.) Economic aid--recipient: $2.3 million (1995) Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976) Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March Communications Telephones: 6,700 Telephone system: domestic: good automatic telephone system international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Saba (Netherlands Antilles) and Guadeloupe Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 2, shortwave 0 (repeater transmitters for Deutsche Welle and BBC world broadcasts) (1998) Radios: NA Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997) Televisions: 28,000 (1993 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 77 km narrow gauge: 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge (used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane) Highway
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