Labor force: 67,000 (1984 est.); agriculture 26%, industry 17%, services 57% (1980 est.). Industries: food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch.

Natural resources: hydropower, cropland.

Exports: $37 million (2004 est.): bananas 39%, eddoes and dasheen (taro), arrowroot starch, tennis racquets.

Imports: $225 million (2004 est.): foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, chemicals and fertilizers, minerals and fuels.

Major trading partners: UK, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, U.S., Grenada, Dominica (2004).

Member of Commonwealth of Nations

Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 20,500 (1998); mobile cellular:

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998).

Radios: 77,000 (1997).

Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus three repeaters) (1997).

Televisions: 18,000 (1997). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 15 (2000).

Internet users: 3,500 (2001).

Transportation: Railways: 0 km.

Highways: total: 1,040 km; paved: 320 km; unpaved: 720 km (1999 est.).

Ports and harbors: Kingstown.

Airports: 6 (2002).

International disputes: protests Venezuela's claim to give full effect to Aves Island, which creates a Venezuelan EEZ/continental shelf extending over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea.