Grenada

Location

Saint George's
Guinea-Bissau
12° 0' 0" N, 61° 46' 59.88" W
Capital City: 
Saint George's
Languages: 
English
Category: Social
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Net enrollment ratio in primary education 87.90000000000001 91 99 86.8 86.5 78.7 MDG Database
Seats held by women in national parliament, percentage 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 26.7 13.3 13.3 UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above) World Bank
Category: Land
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Agricultural land (1000 Ha) 12 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 12 FAO
Forest area (sq km) 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 World Bank
Forest area (% of land area) 12.06 12.06 12.06 12.06 12.06 12.06 12.06 12.06 World Bank
Category: Tourism
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
International tourism receipts (% of total exports) 93 83 91 104 83 71 93 Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Available at: http://go.worldbank.org/U0FSM7AQ40.
Category: Demographics
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Country population 101,208 101,402 101,634 101,903 102,194 102,500 102,823 103,169 103,538 103,930 World Bank
Population annual growth 0.121606 0.191501 0.228531 0.264326 0.285159 0.298983 0.314626 0.335936 0.357027 0.37789 World Bank
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) World Bank
Category: Indices
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
HDI - Human Development Index UNDP International Human Development Indicators - Calculated based on data from UNDESA (2009d), Barro and Lee (2010), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2010b), World Bank (2010b) and IMF(2010a).
Category: Economy
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $) 5,920 5,680 5,820 6,450 5,960 7,580 7,650 8,070 8,320 7,710 World Bank
ODA received as % of GNI 4.4 3.11 2.81 2.71 4.12 11.61 5.96 4.0099999999999998 5.49 UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Workers remittances (current US$) 22,000,000 22,000,000 23,000,000 23,000,000 72,192,000 51,567,000 53,941,000 55,416,000 64,000,000 UN Data
Category: Energy
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Electric power consumption (kWh) World Bank
Combustible renewables and waste (metric tons of oil equivalent) World Bank
Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total) World Bank
Category: Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC) 205 220 216 220 216 235 242 242 MDG Database (CDIAC Data)
Category: Freshwater
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Improved water source (% of population with access) 94 95 95 World Bank
Category: Biodiversity
Indicator 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Source
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15 UN Stats (MDGs indicators)

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Country Strategies: 
Title Programme Name Programme Description Year
PRSP - Grenada Grenada: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—Preparation Status Report Strategy Description 2008
UNFCCC Nat Comm - Grenada First national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Strategy Description 2000
NBSAP - Grenada Fourth National Report of Grenada to the CBD Strategy Description 2009
NSDS - Grenada
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
22 March 2010: The Caribbean Regional meeting for the Five Year Review of the Mauritius Strategy for the further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (MSI+5) convened in St. George’s, Grenada, on 16 and 18 March 2010. The event was hosted by the Government of Grenada, and was jointly organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the UN Department of Economic and...
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
10 May 2010: On 10 May 2010, delegates at the 18th session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 18) considered the CSD 18 thematic topics as they relate to small island developing States (SIDS) and conducted a review of the implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Implementation (MSI) of the Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of SIDS (PrepCom for MSI+5). Delegates’ discussions were guided by the Secretary-General’s report on the Review of the...
10 Dec 2011 | SIDS Policy and Practice
30 April 2010: The Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has published a document (FCCC/AWGLCA/2010/MISC.2) including additional views on which the Chair of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) may draw on in preparing text to facilitate negotiations among parties. The document includes 18 submissions from parties. The 18 submissions are from: Argentina; Belarus; Bolivia; Botswana; Egypt; Ghana; Grenada, on behalf of the Alliance of...
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