Unemployment rate:
12.5% (2000)
Population below poverty line:
32% (2000)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $85.8 million expenditures: $102.1 million (1997)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.7% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
6.5% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
9.76% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$151.2 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$533.4 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$575.8 million (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, mace, citrus, avocados, root crops, sugarcane, corn, vegetables
Industries:
food and beverages, textiles, light assembly operations, tourism, construction
Industrial production growth rate:
0.7% (1997 est.)
Electricity - production:
167.2 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
144.2 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2,043 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
1,844 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Current account balance:
-$138 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$38 million (2006)
Exports - commodities:
bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, fruit and vegetables, clothing, mace
Exports - partners:
Jamaica 92.8%, Saint Lucia 1.3%, US 1.2% (2007)
Imports:
$343 million (2006)
Imports - commodities:
food, manufactured goods, machinery, chemicals, fuel
Imports - partners:
Trinidad and Tobago 36.5%, US 23.3%, Italy 4.1% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$44.87 million (2005)
Debt - external:
$347 million (2004)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Currency code:
XCD
Exchange rates:
East Caribbean dollars (XCD) per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003)
Communications
Grenada
Telephones - main lines in use:
27,700 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
46,200 (2006)
Telephone system:
general assessment: automatic, islandwide telephone system domestic: interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links international: country code - 1–473; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber Optic System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; SHF radiotelephone links to Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to Trinidad
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
57,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
2 (1997)
Televisions:
33,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.gd
Internet hosts:
9 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
14 (2000)
Internet users:
23,000 (2007)
Transportation
Grenada
Airports:
3 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007)
Roadways:
total: 1,127 km paved: 687 km unpaved: 440 km (2000)
Ports and terminals:
Saint George's
Military
Grenada
Military branches:
no regular military forces; Royal Grenada Police Force (includes Coast Guard) (2007)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 27,309 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 20,249 (2008 est.)
Manpower