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Papiamento (official) (a creole language that is a mixture of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, and, to a lesser extent, French, as well as elements of African languages and the language of the Arawak) 69.4%, Spanish 13.7%, English (widely spoken) 7.1%, Dutch (official) 6.1%, Chinese 1.5%, other 1.7%, unspecified 0.4% (2010 est.)
ORANJESTAD (capital) 29,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- none
- Conventional short form
- Aruba
- Local long form
- Local short form
parliamentary democracy (Legislature); part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Name
- Oranjestad
- Geographic coordinates
- 12 31 N, 70 02 W
- Time difference
- UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Tourism, petroleum bunkering, hospitality, and financial and business services are the mainstays of the small open Aruban economy.
- Inflation
- -0.893%
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- None%
- Real Interest Rate
- 16.759%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 4.675%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ 95,921,788
- Labor Force, Total
- Employment in Agriculture
- 0.60%
- Employment in Industry
- 14.04%
- Employment in Services
- 85.07%
- Unemployment Rate
- 5.70%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 2,233,916,201
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 1,829,078,212
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 429.37%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ -22,681,564
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 2,064,245,810
aloes; livestock; fish
tourism, petroleum transshipment facilities, banking
- Commodities
- live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment
- Partners
- Colombia 28.2%, Netherlands Antilles 18.1%, US 14.3%, Netherlands 10.1%, Mexico 6.5%, Venezuela 6.3%, Panama 4.1% (2015)
- Commodities
- machinery and electrical equipment, refined oil for bunkering and reexport, chemicals; foodstuffs
- Partners
- US 55.4%, Netherlands 11.2% (2015)