The 1994 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

product real growth rate:

       NA

       National product per capita:

       $5,800 (1993 est.)

       Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       7% (1993)

       Unemployment rate:

       5% (1988 est.)

       Budget:

       revenues:

       $105 million

       expenditures:

       $161 million, including capital expenditures of $56 million (1992)

       Exports:

       $54.7 million (f.o.b., 1992)

       commodities:

       petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%, food and live animals 4%,

       machinery and transport equipment 17%

       partners:

       OECS 26%, Barbados 15%, Guyana 4%, Trinidad and Tobago 2%, US 0.3%

       Imports:

       $260.9 million (f.o.b., 1992)

       commodities:

       food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment,

       manufactures, chemicals, oil

       partners:

       US 27%, UK 16%, Canada 4%, OECS 3%, other 50%

       External debt:

       $250 million (1990 est.)

       Industrial production:

       growth rate 3% (1989 est.); accounts for 8% of GDP

       Electricity:

       capacity:

       52,100 kW

       production:

       95 million kWh

       consumption per capita:

       1,482 kWh (1992)

       Industries:

       tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol,

       household appliances)

       Agriculture:

       accounts for 4% of GDP; expanding output of cotton, fruits,

       vegetables, and livestock; other crops - bananas, coconuts, cucumbers,

       mangoes, sugarcane; not self-sufficient in food

       Economic aid:

       recipient:

       US commitments (1985–88), $10 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA

       and OOF bilateral commitments (1970–89), $50 million

       Currency:

       1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents

       Exchange rates:

       East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 - 2.70 (fixed rate since 1976)

       Fiscal year:

       1 April - 31 March

      @Antigua and Barbuda, Communications

      Railroads:

       64 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge and 13 km 0.610-meter gauge used almost

       exclusively for handling sugarcane

       Highways:

       total:

       240 km

       paved:

       NA

       unpaved:

       NA

       Ports:

       Saint John's

       Merchant marine:

       227 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 849,699 GRT/1,218,492 DWT, bulk

       4, cargo 156, chemical tanker 11, container 37, liquified gas 2, oil

       tanker 2, refrigerated cargo 4, roll-on/roll-off cargo 11

       note:

       a flag of convenience registry

       Airports:

       total:

       3

       usable:

       3

       with permanent-surface runways:

       2

       with runways 3,659 m:

       0

       with runways 2,440–3,659 m:

       1

       with runways 1,220–2,439 m:

       0

       Telecommunications:

       good automatic telephone system; 6,700 telephones; tropospheric

       scatter links with Saba and Guadeloupe; broadcast stations - 4 AM, 2

       FM, 2 TV, 2 shortwave; 1 coaxial submarine cable; 1 Atlantic Ocean

       INTELSAT earth station

      @Antigua and Barbuda, Defense Forces

      Branches:

       Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force, Royal Antigua and Barbuda

       Police Force (including the Coast Guard)

       Defense expenditures:

       exchange rate conversion - $1.4 million, 1% of GDP (FY90/91)

      @Arctic Ocean, Geography

      Location:

       body of water mostly north of the Arctic Circle

       Map references:

       Arctic Region, Asia, North America, Standard Time Zones of the World

       Area:

       total area:

       14.056 million sq km

       comparative area:

       slightly more than 1.5 times the size of the US; smallest of the

       world's four oceans (after Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian

       Ocean)

       note:

       includes Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East

       Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea,

       Laptev Sea, Northwest Passage, and other tributary water bodies

       Coastline:

       45,389 km

       International disputes:

       some maritime disputes (see littoral states); Svalbard is the focus of

       a maritime boundary dispute between Norway and Russia

       Climate:

       polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow

       annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous

       darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies; summers

       characterized by continuous daylight, damp and foggy weather, and weak

       cyclones with rain or snow

       Terrain:

       central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that

       averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressure ridges may be

       three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral

       Stream, but nearly straight line movement from the New Siberian

       Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland);

       the ice pack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more

       than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling

       land masses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest