Exports: $161 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages,
chemicals, electrical components, clothing
partners: US 13%, UK 10%, Trinidad and Tobago 9%, Windward Islands 8%
Imports: $703 million (c.i.f., 1993 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction
materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components
partners: US 36%, UK 11%, Trinidad and Tobago 11%, Japan 3%
External debt: $652 million (1991 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 2% (FY93/94 est.); accounts for about 10% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 152,100 kW production: 510 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,841 kWh (1993)
Industries: tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly
for export
Agriculture: accounts for 6% of GDP; major cash crop is sugarcane;
other crops - vegetables, cotton; not self-sufficient in food
Illicit drugs: one of many Caribbean transshipment points for
narcotics bound for the US and Europe
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $15 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $171 million
Currency: 1 Barbadian dollar (Bds$) = 100 cents