ACOG - Antigua and Barbuda  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North AtlanticOcean, east-southeast of Puerto Rico

Area:
total area: 440 sq km
land area: 440 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 153 km


People

Population: 65,176 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 25% (female 8,062; male 8,390)
15-64 years: 69% (female 22,342; male 22,334)
65 years and over: 6% (female 2,231; male 1,817)

Population growth rate: 0.68% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 17.08 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.35 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -4.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 17.8 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.4 years
male: 71.32 years
female: 75.57 years

Total fertility rate: 1.68 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black African, British, Portuguese, Lebanese, Syrian

Religions: Anglican (predominant), other Protestant sects, some Roman Catholic

Languages: English (official), local dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling (1960)
total population: 89%
male: 90%
female: 88%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Antigua and Barbuda

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Saint John's

Independence: 1 November 1981 (from UK)

Constitution: 1 November 1981


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $400 million

National product real growth rate: 3.4%

National product per capita: $6,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7%

Unemployment rate: 6%

Electricity:
capacity: 52,100 kW
production: 95 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,242 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.