ACOG - Dominica  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago

Area:
total area: 750 sq km
land area: 750 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 148 km


People

Population: 82,608 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 29% (female 11,665; male 12,130)
15-64 years: 64% (female 25,606; male 26,890)
65 years and over: 7% (female 3,724; male 2,593)

Population growth rate: 0.4% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 18.63 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.33 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -9.36 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 9.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 77.2 years
male: 74.35 years
female: 80.2 years

Total fertility rate: 1.95 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black, Carib Indians

Religions: Roman Catholic 77%, Protestant 15% (Methodist 5%, Pentecostal 3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 3%, Baptist 2%, other 2%), none 2%, unknown 1%, other 5%

Languages: English (official), French patois

Literacy: age 15 and over has ever attended school (1970)
total population: 94%
male: 94%
female: 94%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Commonwealth of Dominica
conventional short form: Dominica

Type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Roseau

Independence: 3 November 1978 (from UK)

Constitution: 3 November 1978


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $200 million

National product real growth rate: 1.6%

National product per capita: $2,260

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.6%

Unemployment rate: 15%

Electricity:
capacity: 7,000 kW
production: 30 million kWh
consumption per capita: 347 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The Mother Nature was kind to Olympic athletes and spectators. The average high temperature during the Games was 89 degrees with an average low of 72 degrees. Highest temperature registered (20 July) - 99 degrees. Lowest high temperature registered is 79 degrees (28 July).