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Country name:

conventional short form: Barbados
 

 

Capital:

Bridgetown

 

Location:

 

Area:

total: 430 sq km
land: 430 sq km
water: 0 sq km
 

 

Population:

284,589 (July 2009 est.)
0-14 years: 19.2% (male 27,383/female 27,352)
15-64 years: 71.3% (male 99,829/female 103,049)
65 years and over: 9.5% (male 10,464/female 16,512) (2009 est.)
 

Climate:
tropical; rainy season (June to October)
Barbados www.agriculture.gov.bb/default.asp?V_DOC_ID=1150

 

Languages:

English

 

 

Economy - overview:
Economy—overview: Historically the Barbadian economy had been dependent on sugarcane cultivation and related activities but production in recent years has diversified into manufacturing and tourism. The start of the Port Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996-97. The government continues its efforts to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment rate encourage direct foreign investment and privatize remaining state-owned enterprises

http://www.world66.com/centralamericathecaribbean/thecaribbean/barbados/economy
 

 

Economy:
Economy—overview: Historically the Barbadian economy had been dependent on sugarcane cultivation and related activities but production in recent years has diversified into manufacturing and tourism. The start of the Port Charles Marina project in Speightstown helped the tourism industry continue to expand in 1996-97. The government continues its efforts to reduce the unacceptably high unemployment rate encourage direct foreign investment and privatize remaining state-owned enterprises
http://www.world66.com/centralamericathecaribbean/thecaribbean/barbados/economy

 

 

Industries:

tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export

 

Exports - commodities:

Exports - commodities:
manufactures, sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components
$385 million (2006)
Exports - partners:
Trinidad and Tobago 15.5%, Jamaica 13.6%, Brazil 9.9%, US 8.6%, UK 7.8%, Saint Lucia 7.2%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.5% (2008)

 

Imports - commodities:

consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components
$1.586 billion (2006)
Imports - partners:
US 27.8%, Trinidad and Tobago 26.3%, Russia 7.3%, Germany 4.2% (2008)

 

Exchange rates:

Barbadian dollars (BBD) per US dollar - NA (2007), 2 (2006), 2 (2005), 2 (2004), 2 (2003)
 

 

GDP :

$5.425 billion (2008 est.)
$5.388 billion (2007 est.)
$5.216 billion (2006 est.)