ACOG - Netherlands Antilles - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, two island groups in the Caribbean Sea - one includes Curacao and Bonaire north of Venezuela and the other is east of the Virgin Islands

Area:
total area: 960 sq km
land area: 960 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 5.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 364 km


People

Population: 203,505 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 26% (female 25,349; male 26,577)
15-64 years: 67% (female 69,273; male 67,485)
65 years and over: 7% (female 8,599; male 6,222)

Population growth rate: 1.06% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 16.23 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.26 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.38 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 76.94 years
male: 74.67 years
female: 79.33 years

Total fertility rate: 1.9 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mixed African 85%, Carib Indian, European, Latin, Oriental

Religions: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Seventh-Day Adventist

Languages: Dutch (official), Papiamento a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect predominates, English widely spoken, Spanish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1981)
total population: 98%
male: 98%
female: 99%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Netherlands Antilles

Type: part of the Dutch realm; full autonomy in internal affairs grantedin 1954

Capital: Willemstad

Independence: none (part of the Dutch realm)

Constitution: 29 December 1954, Statute of the Realm of the Netherlands, as amended


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $1.85 billion

National product real growth rate: 1.8%

National product per capita: $10,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.5%

Unemployment rate: 13.4%

Electricity:
capacity: 200,000 kW
production: 810 million kWh
consumption per capita: 4,054 kWh



Olympic Factoid
Closing Ceremony of the 1996 Games involved a crew of 2,100 who worked with more than 3,500 performers as well as thousands of athletes who celebrated on the field of Olympic Stadium.