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English (official) 67.5%, Spanish 12.9%, Creole 8.2%, Dutch (official) 4.2%, Papiamento (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect) 2.2%, French 1.5%, other 3.5% (2001 census)
PHILIPSBURG (capital) 1,327 (2011)
- Conventional long form
- none
- Conventional short form
- Sint Maarten
- Local long form
- Land Sint Maarten (Dutch); Country of Sint Maarten (English)
- Local short form
- Sint Maarten (Dutch and English)
parliamentary democracy (Estates of Sint Maarten) under a constitutional monarchy
- Name
- Philipsburg
- Geographic coordinates
- 18 1 N, 63 2 W
- Time difference
- UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
The economy of Sint Maarten centers around tourism with nearly four-fifths of the labor force engaged in this sector. Nearly 1.8 million visitors came to the island by cruise ship and roughly 500,000 visitors arrived through Princess Juliana International Airport in 2013. Cruise ships and yachts also call on Sint Maarten's numerous ports and harbors. Limited agriculture and local fishing means that almost all food must be imported. Energy resources and manufactured goods are also imported. Sint Maarten had the highest per capita income among the five islands that formerly comprised the Netherlands Antilles.
- Inflation
- None%
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- None%
- Real Interest Rate
- None%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- None%
- Current Account Balance
- US$
- Labor Force, Total
- Employment in Agriculture
- %
- Employment in Industry
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- Employment in Services
- %
- Unemployment Rate
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- Imports of goods and services
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- Exports of goods and services
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- FDI, net inflows
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- Commercial Service Exports
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sugar
tourism, light industry
- Commodities
- sugar
- Partners
- Commodities
- Partners