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СКАЧАТЬ Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996–98. Offshore finance and informatics are important foreign exchange earners, and there is also a light manufacturing sector. The government continues its efforts to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment rate, encourage direct foreign investment, and privatize remaining state-owned enterprises.

      GDP: purchasing power parity—$2.9 billion (1998 est.)

      GDP—real growth rate: 3% (1998 est.)

      GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity?$11,200 (1998 est.)

      GDP—composition by sector: agriculture: 6% industry: 15% services: 79% (1996)

      Population below poverty line: NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.6% (1997)

      Labor force: 136,000 (1998 est.)

      Labor force—by occupation: services 75%, industry 15%, agriculture 10% (1996 est.)

      Unemployment rate: 12% (1998 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $725.5 million

       expenditures: $750.6 million, including capital expenditures of

       $126.3 million (FY97/98 est.)

      Industries: tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component

       assembly for export

      Industrial production growth rate: 0.8% (1996)

      Electricity—production: 600 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)

      Electricity—consumption: 600 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: sugarcane, vegetables, cotton

      Exports: $280 million (1997)

      Exports—commodities: sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and

       beverages, chemicals, electrical components, clothing

      Exports—partners: Caricom 34.8%, US 18.4%, UK 16.6%, Canada 4.4%

       (1996)

      Imports: $982 million (1997)

      Imports—commodities: consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs,

       construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components

      Imports—partners: US 40.5%, Caricom 14.7%, UK 8.4%, Canada 5%

       (1996)

      Debt—external: $581.4 million (1996)

      Economic aid—recipient: $9.1 million (1995)

      Currency: 1 Barbadian dollar (Bds$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: Barbadian dollars (Bds$) per US$1—2.0000 (fixed rate pegged to the dollar)

      Fiscal year: 1 April—31 March

      Communications

      Telephones: 87,343 (1991 est.)

      Telephone system:

       domestic: island wide automatic telephone system

       international: satellite earth station—1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean);

       tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (in addition, there are two cable channels) (1997)

      Televisions: 69,350 (1993 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 1,650 km paved: 1,582 km unpaved: 68 km (1998 est.)

      Ports and harbors: Bridgetown, Speightstown (Port Charles Marina)

      Merchant marine:

       total: 44 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 641,550 GRT/1,087,042

       DWT

       ships by type: bulk 11, cargo 26, combination bulk 1, oil tanker 4,

       refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1

       note: a flag of convenience registry; includes ships of 2 countries:

       Canada owns 2 ships, Hong Kong 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports: 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Royal Barbados Defense Force (includes Ground

       Forces and Coast Guard), Royal Barbados Police Force

      Military manpower—availability:

       males age 15–49: 72,111 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 49,600 (1999 est.)

      Military expenditures—dollar figure: $NA

      Military expenditures—percent of GDP: NA%

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: none

      Illicit drugs: one of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics bound for the US and Europe

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      Geography

      Location: Southern Africa, islands in the southern Mozambique

       Channel, about one-half of the way from Madagascar to Mozambique

      Geographic coordinates: 21 30 S, 39 50 E

      Map references: Africa

      Area:

       total: 0.2 СКАЧАТЬ