Sovereign: Queen Elizabeth II (1952)

Governor-General: Frederick Ballantyne (2002)

Prime Minister: Ralph Gonsalves (2001)

Current government officials

 

Total area: 150 sq mi (389 sq km)

Population (2006 est.): 117,848 (growth rate: 0.3%); birth rate: 16.2/1000; infant mortality rate: 14.4/1000; life expectancy: 73.8; density per sq mi: 900

Capital and largest city: Kingstown, 17,600

 

Monetary unit: East Caribbean dollar

Languages: English, French patois

Ethnicity/race: black 66%, mixed 19%, East Indian 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, other 7%

Religions: Anglican 47%, Methodist 28%, Roman Catholic 13%, Hindu, Seventh-Day Adventist, other Protestant

Literacy rate: 96% (1970 est.)

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2002 est.): $342 million; per capita $2,900.

Real growth rate: 0.7%. Inflation: –0.4% (2001 est.).

Unemployment: 15% (2001 est.).

Arable land: 18%.

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

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