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English, French patois
KINGSTOWN (capital) 27,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- none
- Conventional short form
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Local long form
- Local short form
parliamentary democracy (House of Assembly) under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
- Name
- Kingstown
- Geographic coordinates
- 13 08 N, 61 13 W
- Time difference
- UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; accepts ICCt jurisdiction
Success of the economy hinges upon seasonal variations in agriculture, tourism, and construction activity, as well as remittances. Much of the workforce is employed in banana production and tourism. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is home to a small offshore banking sector and continues to fully adopt international regulatory standards.
- Inflation
- -1.734%
- External debt stocks
- US$ 338,678,000
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- 39.3%
- Real Interest Rate
- 7.614%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 5.333%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ -210,276,775
- Labor Force, Total
- 55,570
- Employment in Agriculture
- 23.80%
- Employment in Industry
- 16.20%
- Employment in Services
- 55.20%
- Unemployment Rate
- 19.31%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$ 393,737,593
- Exports of goods and services
- US$ 198,069,222
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 50.34%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 120,744,074
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 138,369,274
bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish
tourism; food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch
- Commodities
- bananas, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch; tennis racquets
- Partners
- Trinidad and Tobago 18.9%, St. Lucia 14.8%, Barbados 12.3%, Dominica 9.7%, Grenada 9.3%, Antigua and Barbuda 8.4%, Poland 7.1%, St. Kitts and Nevis 4.1% (2015)
- Commodities
- foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels
- Partners
- Trinidad and Tobago 29.4%, US 17.2%, Singapore 8.7%, China 8%, Barbados 6.1%, Poland 5.5%, Turkey 4.4% (2015)