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Household income or consumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: NA%

highest 10%: NA%

Budget:

revenues: $847 million (including grants)

expenditures: $886 million (2000 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

5.5% (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 93

Central bank discount rate:

10% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 24 12% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

10.03% (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 77 10.8% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$1.637 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 75 $1.478 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$3.701 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 77 $2.717 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$4.554 billion (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 82 $3.533 billion (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 85 $5.599 billion (31 December 2007)

$4.954 billion (31 December 2006)

Agriculture - products:

sugarcane, vegetables, cotton

Industries:

tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export

Industrial production growth rate:

−3.2% (2000 est.) country comparison to the world: 162

Electricity - production:

1.003 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 146

Electricity - consumption:

939.9 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 147

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:

1,100 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 104

Oil - consumption:

9,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 149

Oil - exports:

1,750 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 117

Oil - imports:

10,390 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 139

Oil - proved reserves:

2.17 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 94

Natural gas - production:

29.17 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 87

Natural gas - consumption:

29.17 million cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 110

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 201

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 200

Natural gas - proved reserves:

141.6 million cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 101

Current account balance:

-$254 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 94

Exports:

$385 million (2006) country comparison to the world: 168

Exports - commodities:

manufactures, sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components

Exports - partners:

Trinidad and Tobago 15.6%, Jamaica 13.9%, Brazil 9.9%, US 8.7%, UK 7.8%, Saint Lucia 7.3%, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.5% (2008)

Imports:

$1.586 billion (2006) country comparison to the world: 158

Imports - commodities:

consumer goods, machinery, foodstuffs, construction materials, chemicals, fuel, electrical components

Imports - partners:

US 27.1%, Trinidad and Tobago 25.6%, Russia 7.1%, Colombia 6.4%,

Germany 4.1% (2008)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$620 million (2007) country comparison to the world: 135 $620 million (2007)

Debt - external:

$668 million (2003) country comparison to the world: 159

Exchange rates:

Barbadian dollars (BBD) per US dollar - NA (2007), 2 (2006), 2 (2005), 2 (2004), 2 (2003)

Communications ::Barbados

Telephones - main lines in use:

150,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 132

Telephones - mobile cellular:

406,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 160

Telephone system:

general assessment: fixed-line teledensity of roughly 50 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density approaching 150 per 100 persons

domestic: island-wide automatic telephone system

international: country code - 1–246; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; satellite earth stations - 1 (Intelsat -Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Trinidad and Saint Lucia (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 6, shortwave 0 (2004)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (plus 2 cable channels) (2004)

Internet country code:

.bb

Internet hosts:

235 (2009) country comparison to the world: 185

Internet users:

188,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 139

Transportation ::Barbados

Airports:

1 (2009) country comparison to the world: 212

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1

over 3,047 m: 1 (2009)

Roadways:

total: 1,600 km country comparison to the world: 176 paved: 1,600 km (2004)

Merchant marine:

total: 85 country comparison to the world: 53 by type: bulk carrier 15, cargo 50, chemical tanker 7, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 3, refrigerated cargo 6, roll on/roll off 2

foreign-owned: 80 (Canada 9, Greece 12, India 1, Iran 2, Lebanon 1, Norway 38, Sweden 7, Syria 1, UK 9)

registered in other countries: 1 (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Bridgetown

Military ::Barbados

Military branches:

Royal Barbados Defense Force: Troops Command, Barbados Coast Guard (2009)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service (younger requires parental consent); no conscription (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16–49: 75,265

females age 16–49: 75,389 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16–49: 58,596

females age 16–49: 58,866 (2009 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 2,015

female: 2,007 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.5% of GDP (2006 est.) country comparison to the world: 159

Military - note:

the Royal Barbados Defense Force includes a land-based Troop Command and a small Coast Guard; the primary role of the land element is to defend the island against external aggression; the Command consists of a single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling and other illicit activities (2007)