St Lucia

  • Area: 616.0 square kilometres
  • Currency: Eastern Caribbean dollar made up of 100 cents, $1 = EC$2.7 (fixed)
  • Official language: English
  • Population: 172,370
  • Head of State or Government: Stephenson King (Prime Minister), 2009
  • GDP: $954.22 million
  • GDP per capita: $5,535.90
  • GDP growth: -5.2%
  • Inflation: 1.0%

About St Lucia

Saint Lucia is the second largest of the Windward Islands and the capital is Castries. The export of bananas and earnings from tourism account the bulk of foreign exchange. The agriculture, forestry and fishing sector contributed approximately 4 per cent of GDP, industry 6 per cent and the services sector 90 per cent in 2009., There were 278,491 stay-over visitors and 699,306 cruise-ship passengers.