|
Geographics
| Location |
Carribean |
| Capital |
Bridgetown |
| Type
of Government |
Parliamentary
democracy |
| Total
Area |
430
sq. km |
| Coastline |
97
km |
Economy
| GDP |
$2.4
billion (1994 est.) |
| GDP
Growth |
n/a
% |
| GDP
per Capita |
$9,200 |
| Economy
by Sectors: |
| -
Agriculture (major cash
crop is sugar cane; vegetables, cotton ) |
6% |
| -
Industry (sugar, light
manufacturing, component assembly for export, ) |
n/a
% |
| -
Services (tourism ) |
n/a
%
|
Contact
Information
| AOSIS
(Alliance of Small Island States): |
Permanent
Representative of Barbados to the United Nations
800 Second Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 867-8431; Fax: (212) 986-1030
Email: brbun@undp.org |
| Contact
in Barbados : |
| n/a |
|
Demographics
| Population |
256,395
(1995 est.) |
| Population
Growth |
0.24% |
| Labor
Force |
124,800 |
| Life
Expectancy at Birth |
74.16
years |
| Literacy |
99% |
Foreign
Trade
| Exports
(f.o.b.) |
$161
million (1993 est.) |
| Commodities: |
| sugar
and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical
components, clothing |
| Partners: |
| US
(13%), UK (10%), Trinidad and Tobago (9%), Windward Islands
(8%) |
| Imports
(f.o.b.) |
$703
million (c.i.f., 1993 est.) |
| Commodities: |
| consumer
goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals,
fuel, electrical components |
| Partners: |
| US
(36%), UK (11%), Trinidad and Tobago (11%), Japan (3%) |
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