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<text id=93CT1196>
<title>
St. Kitts & Nevis--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Saint Kitts and Nevis
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy has historically depended on the growing
and processing of sugarcane and on remittances from overseas
workers. In recent years, tourism and export-oriented
manufacturing have assumed larger roles.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $142
million (1991)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 6.8% (1991)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $3,500 (1991)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.2% (1991)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 12.2% (1990)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $85.7 million; expenditures $85.8 million,
including capital expenditures of $42.4 million (1993)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $24.6 million (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: sugar, clothing, electronics, postage
stamps</l>
<l> partners: US 53%, UK 22%, Trinidad and Tobago 5%, OECS 5%
(1988)</l>
<l>Imports: $103.2 million (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: foodstuffs, intermediate manufactures,
machinery, fuels</l>
<l> partners: US 36%, UK 17%, Trinidad and Tobago 6%, Canada 3%,
Japan 3%, OECS 4% (1988)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $37.2 million (1990)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 11.8% (1988 est.); accounts
for 11% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 15,800 kW capacity; 45 million kWh produced,
1,120 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra,
clothing, footwear, beverages
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP; cash crop - sugarcane;
subsistence crops - rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fishing
potential not fully exploited; most food imported
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs
destined for the US
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-88), $10.7
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $67 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 - 2.70
(fixed rate since 1976)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>