_#_Electricity: 15,800 kW capacity; 45 million kWh produced, 1,120 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: sugar processing, tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing, footwear, beverages
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP; cash crop—sugarcane; subsistence crops—rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fishing potential not fully exploited; most food imported
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-88), $10.7 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $57 million
_#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural—dollars); 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1—2.70 (fixed rate since 1976)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Railroads: 58 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge on Saint Kitts for sugarcane
_#_Highways: 300 km total; 125 km paved, 125 km otherwise improved, 50 km unimproved earth
_#_Ports: Basseterre (Saint Kitts), Charlestown (Nevis)