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Background: The smallest independent country in the western hemisphere Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other Caribbean nations which quickly captured the ringleaders and their hundreds of Cuban advisers. Free elections were reinstituted the following year.


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Location:

Geographic coordinates

Map reference:

Area
Total: 340 km²
Land: 340 km²

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 121 km
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Territorial sea: 12 nm

Maritime claims

Climate: tropical; tempered by northeast trade winds

Terrain: volcanic in origin with central mountains

Elevation

Natural resources: timber, tropical fruit, deepwater harbors

Land use
Arable land: 15%
Permanent crops: 26%
Meadows and pastures: 3%
Forest and woodland: 9%
Other: 47%

Irrigated land: NA km²

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


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Population: 93,830 (July 1993 est.)
Growth rate: 0.24% (1993 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Grenadian(s)
Adjective: Grenadian

Ethnic groups: black African

Languages: English (official), French patois

Religions: Roman Catholic, Anglican, other Protestant sects

Demographic profile

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate: 0.24% (1993 est.)

Birth rate: 30.85 births/1000 population (1993 est.)

Death rate

Net migration rate: -21.95 migrant(s)/1000 population (1993 est.)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues:
Current issues note:

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 12.7 deaths/1000 live births (1993 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 70.15 years
Male: 67.79 years
Female: 72.54 years (1993 est.)

Total fertility rate: 4 children born/woman (1993 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: age 15 and over having ever attended school (1970)
Total population: 98%
Male: 98%
Female: 98%

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


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Country name
Conventional long form: none
Conventional short form: Grenada

Government type: parliamentary democracy

Capital: Saint George's

Administrative divisions:

Dependent areas

Independence: 7 February 1974 (from UK)

National holiday: Independence Day, 7 February (1974)

Constitution

Legal system: based on English common law

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch: British monarch, governor general, prime minister, Ministers of Government (cabinet)

Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament consists of an upper house or Senate and a lower house or House of Representatives

Judicial branch: Supreme Court

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation:

Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador Denneth MODESTE
In the us chancery: 1701 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20,009
In the us telephone: (202) 265-2,561
In the us consulate general: New York
From the us chief of mission: Charge d'Affaires Annette T. VELER
From the us embassy: Ross Point Inn, Saint George's
From the us mailing address: P. O. Box 54, Saint George's
From the us telephone: (809) 444-1173 through 1178

Flag description: a rectangle divided diagonally into yellow triangles (top and bottom) and green triangles (hoist side and outer side) with a red border around the flag; there are seven yellow five-pointed stars with three centered in the top red border, three centered in the bottom red border, and one on a red disk superimposed at the center of the flag; there is also a symbolic nutmeg pod on the hoist-side triangle (Grenada is the world's second-largest producer of nutmeg, after Indonesia; the seven stars represent the seven administrative divisions

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


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Economy overview: The economy is essentially agricultural and centers on the traditional production of spices and tropical plants. Agriculture accounts for about 16% of GDP and 80% of exports and employs 24% of the labor force. Tourism is the leading foreign exchange earner, followed by agricultural exports. Manufacturing remains relatively undeveloped, but is expected to grow, given a more favorable private investment climate since 1983. The economy achieved an impressive average annual growth rate of 5.5% in 1986-91 but stalled in 1992. Unemployment remains high at about 25%.

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate: -0.4% (1992 est.)

Real gdp per capita: $3,000 (1992 est.)

Gross national saving

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: accounts for 16% of GDP and 80% of exports; bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, and mace account for two-thirds of total crop production; world's root crops, sugarcane, corn, and vegetables

Industries: food and beverage, textile, light assembly operations, tourism, construction

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate 5.8% (1989 est.), accounts for 9% of GDP

Labor force: 36,000
By occupation services: 31%
By occupation agriculture: 24%
By occupation construction: 8%
By occupation manufacturing: 5%
By occupation other: 32% (1985)

Unemployment rate: 25% (1992 est.)

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues $78 million; expenditures $51 million, including capital expenditures of $22 million (1991 est.)

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: $30 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
Commodoties: nutmeg 36%, cocoa beans 9%, bananas 14%, mace 8%, textiles 5%
Partners: US 12%, UK, FRG, Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago (1989)

Imports: $110 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)
Commodoties: food 25%, manufactured goods 22%, machinery 20%, chemicals 10%, fuel 6% (1989)
Partners: US 29%, UK, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan, Canada (1989)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

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


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Electricity
Production: 12,500 kW capacity; 26 million kWh produced, 310 kWh per capita (1992)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


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Military expenditures
Percent of gdp: $NA, NA% of GDP

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports: 3
Usable: 3
With permanentsurface runways: 2
With runways over 3659 m: 0
With runways 2440-3659 m: 1
With runways 1220-2439 m: 1

Heliports

Pipelines

Railways

Roadways

Waterways

Merchant marine

Ports and terminals


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Disputes international: none

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs