_#_Industries: clothing, assembly of electronic components, beverages, corrugated boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and 43% of labor force; crops—bananas, coconuts, vegetables, citrus fruit, root crops, cocoa; imports food for the tourist industry
_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $118 million
_#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural—dollars); 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1—2.70 (fixed rate since 1976)
_#_Fiscal Year: 1 April-31 March
_*Communications #_Highways: 760 km total; 500 km paved; 260 km otherwise improved
_#_Ports: Castries
_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439