ACOG - Cayman Islands  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, island group in Caribbean Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras

Area:
total area: 260 sq km
land area: 260 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 160 km


People

Population: 33,192 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years:
15-64 years:
65 years and over:

Population growth rate: 4.3% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 14.79 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.98 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 33.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 8.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.1 years
male: 75.37 years
female: 78.81 years

Total fertility rate: 1.43 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mixed 40%, white 20%, black 20%, expatriates of various ethnic groups20%

Religions: United Church (Presbyterian and Congregational), Anglican, Baptist,Roman Catholic, Church of God, other Protestant denominations

Languages: English

Literacy: age 15 and over has ever attended school (1970)
total population: 98%
male: 98%
female: 98%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Cayman Islands

Type: dependent territory of the UK

Capital: George Town

Independence: none (dependent territory of the UK)

Constitution: 1959, revised 1972 and 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $700 million

National product real growth rate: 1.4%

National product per capita: $23,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5%

Unemployment rate: 7%

Electricity:
capacity: 80,000 kW
production: 230 million kWh
consumption per capita: 6,899 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.