ACOG - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, north of Trinidad and Tobago

Area:
total area: 340 sq km
land area: 340 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 84 km


People

Population: 117,344 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 34% (female 19,551; male 20,185)
15-64 years: 61% (female 35,565; male 35,573)
65 years and over: 5% (female 3,793; male 2,677)

Population growth rate: 0.65% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 19.62 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 5.46 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -7.63 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 17.2 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.66 years
male: 71.15 years
female: 74.21 years

Total fertility rate: 2.08 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: African descent, Caucasian, East Indian, Carib Indian

Religions: Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Seventh-Day Adventist

Languages: English, French patois

Literacy: age 15 and over has ever attended school (1970)
total population: 96%
male: 96%
female: 96%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Kingstown

Independence: 27 October 1979 (from UK)

Constitution: 27 October 1979


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $235 million

National product real growth rate: 2%

National product per capita: $2,000

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4%

Unemployment rate: 35%-40%

Electricity:
capacity: 16,600 kW
production: 50 million kWh
consumption per capita: 436 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.