Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Saint Lucia economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends. Rankings of Saint Lucia best banks and safest banks are also available.
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USD 0.3 billion (2015)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved January 2017
USD 1.5 billion (2017, estimate)
Intl$ 2.2 billion (2017, estimate)
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
| 6.8% | 1% | 4.2% | -0.4% | -1.7% | 0.2% | -1.5% |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | ||
| 0.1% | 0.4% | 2.4% | 1.5% | 1.9% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2017* |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.002% |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* |
| 1.5% | 3.5% | -1.0% | -1.0% | 3.2% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| 79.6% | 80.3% | 79.1% | 79.8% | 78.1% |
*Estimate
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* |
| -6% | -3.7% | -1.5% | -1.7% | -2% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-6.7% (2017 estimate)
46.3% (2015)
0.001% (2015)
0.009% (2015)
Bananas 41%, clothing, cocoa, avocados, mangoes, coconut oil (2010 estimate)
Food, manufactured goods, machinery and transportation equipment, chemicals, fuels
Dominican Republic 25.1%, US 15.9%, Suriname 9.1%, Antigua and Barbuda 7%, Dominica 6.8%, Trinidad and Tobago 6.3%, Barbados 6.1%, UK 4.8%, Grenada 4.6% (2015)
Brazil 34.9%, US 25.7%, Trinidad and Tobago 14.4%, Colombia 10.9% (2015)
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 95 million | USD 93 million | USD 95 million |
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| USD 3.1 million | USD 2.5 million | USD 2.5 million |
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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: 86 out of 190 countries (2017)
Subcategories:
Starting a business: 66 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 71 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 104 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 157 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 87 out of 190 countries
Trading Across Borders: 81 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 65 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 54 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 56 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 114 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 38 / Score: 69.96 (Mostly free) (2016)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Parliamentary democracy (Parliament) under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Roman Catholic 61.5%, Protestant 25.5% (includes Seventh Day Adventist 10.4%, Pentecostal 8.9%, Baptist 2.2%, Anglican 1.6%, Church of God 1.5%, other Protestant 0.9%), other Christian 3.4% (includes Evangelical 2.3% and Jehovah's Witness 1.1%), Rastafarian 1.9%, other 0.4%, none 5.9%, unspecified 1.4% (2010 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2016* | 2021* |
| 0.134 million | 0.156 million | 0.166 million | 0.174 million | 0.18 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2015 |
| 22% | 27% | 28% | 19% |
Political Rights: 1
Civil Liberties: 1 (2017)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 18.86% Mobile 101.52% (2015)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)