_#_Environment: 30 islands (eight inhabited); subject to frequent hurricanes
_#_Note: located 190 km north of the Dominican Republic in the North Atlantic Ocean
_*People #_Population: 9,983 (July 1991), growth rate 2.2% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 25 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 2 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 14 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 72 years male, 78 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 3.8 children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: no noun or adjectival forms