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USD 0.33 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
USD 1.6 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 2.6 billion (2018, estimate)
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 9.3% | 0% | -12.1% | -7.2% | -2.1% | 3.5% | -0.1% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | ||
| 4.7% | 4% | 4.8% | 3.6% | 5.3% |
*Estimate
USD 17,636.1 (2018, estimate)
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.002% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 1% | -0.5% | 2.4% | 1.2% | 1.6% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| 100.3% | 87.6% | 90.6% | 89.5% | 90% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -2.6% | -0.1% | -1.5% | -4.2% | -4.2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-10.2% (2017 estimate)
45.3% (2015)
0.0% (2015)
0.01% (2015)
Petroleum products, bedding, handicrafts, electronic components, transport equipment, food and live animals
Food and live animals, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 101 million | USD 155 million | USD 154 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 6.2 million | USD 6.1 million | USD 5.8 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
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N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking: 113 out of 190 countries (2017)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 124 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 35 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 150 out of 190 countries
Getting credit: 157 out of 190 countries
Protecting investors: 87 out of 190 countries
Trading across border: 110 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 160 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 107 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 35 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 124 out of 190 countries
Parliamentary democracy (Parliament) under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Protestant 68.3% (Anglican 17.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.4%, Pentecostal 12.2%, Moravian 8.3%, Methodist 5.6%, Wesleyan Holiness 4.5%, Church of God 4.1%, Baptist 3.6%), Roman Catholic 8.2%, other 12.2%, unspecified 5.5%, none 5.9% (2011 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 0.06 million | 0.076 million | 0.085 million | 0.09 million | 0.095 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 40% | 35% | 32% | 24% |
Total population: 99%
Male: 98.4%
Female: 99.4% (2012 est.)
(age 15 and over has completed five or more years of schooling)
Political Rights: 2
Civil Liberties: 2 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 13.07% Mobile 137.22% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)