Overview Barbados

Currency Barbadian dollar (BBD)
Fiscal year 1 April – 31 March
Trade organisations WTO
Statistics
GDP PPP: $5.466 billion
Nominal: $3.157 billion (2008)
Rank: 157th (2008)
GDP growth 1.5% (2008 est.)
GDP per capita PPP: $19,300 (2008 est.)
GDP by sector agriculture (6%), industry (16%),services (78%) (2000 est.)
Inflation (CPI) 5.5% (2007 est.)
Population
below poverty line		 N/A
Labour force
by occupation		 agriculture (10%), industry (15%), services (75%) (1996 est.)
Unemployment 10.7% (2003)
Main industries tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export
External
Exports $385 million (2006)
Main export partners Trinidad and Tobago 15.5%, Jamaica13.5%, UK 9.4%, US 9.3%, Brazil8.3%, Saint Lucia 7.2%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.5% (2007) (2004)
Imports $1.586 billion (2006)
Main import partners U.S. 30.5%, Trinidad and Tobago27.6%, UK 6.5% (2007)
Gross external debt $668 million (2003)
Public finances
Revenues $847 million (including grants) (2000)
Expenses $886 million, including capital expenditures (2000)
Economic aid $9.8 million (recipient; 1995)
Main data source: CIA World Fact Book
All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars

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