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<text id=93CT1214>
<title>
St. Vincent & the Grenadines--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Agriculture, dominated by banana production, is the
most important sector of the economy. The services sector, based
mostly on a growing tourist industry, is also important. The
economy continues to have a high unemployment rate of 35%-40%
because of an overdependence on the weather-plagued banana crop
as a major export earner. Government progress toward
diversifying into new industries has been relatively
unsuccessful.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $171
million (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 3% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $1,500 (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.3% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 35%-40% (1992 est.)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $62 million; expenditures $67 million,
including capital expenditures of $21 million (FY90 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $65.7 million (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: bananas, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot
starch, tennis racquets</l>
<l> partners: UK 43%, CARICOM 37%, US 15%</l>
<l>Imports: $110.7 million (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals
and fertilizers, minerals and fuels</l>
<l> partners: US 42%, CARICOM 19%, UK 15%</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $50.9 million (1989)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1989); accounts for 14%
of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 16,600 kW capacity; 64 million kWh produced, 555
kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: food processing, cement, furniture, clothing,
starch
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GDP and 60% of labor force;
provides bulk of exports; products - bananas, coconuts, sweet
potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, hogs, goats;
small fish catch used locally
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $11
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $81 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$)=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>