Antigua and Barbuda

Wealth and National Well-Being

World Factbook: "Tourism continues to dominate Antigua and Barbuda's economy, accounting for nearly 60% of GDP and 40% of investment. The dual-island nation's agricultural production is focused on the domestic market and constrained by a limited water supply and a labor shortage stemming from the lure of higher wages in tourism and construction."

Wikipedia: "Antigua is famous for its many luxury resorts."

Estimated per capita GDP (2010 U.S. dollars)
2010: $16,400

GDP growth rate:
2010: -4.1%
2009: -6.5%
2008: 2.8%
2007: 6.9%

2009: expenditures 78.2% of revenues.

Infant mortality (deaths before the age of one year per 1,000 live births)
2010: 15.1%
2008: 17.67
2005: 19.46

Average life expectancy at birth
2010: 75.26 years
2008: 72.69
2005: 71.9

People

Living in an urban area
2010: 30%

Density estimated in 2005: 155.3 persons per square kilometer.

Migration
2010: More arriving than leaving. A net gain of 6.01 persons per 1,000 population

Ethnicities
2001 census: black 91%, mixed 4.4%, white 1.7%, other 2.9%

Religions
2001 census:Anglican 25.7%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.3%, Pentecostal 10.6%, Moravian 10.5%, Roman Catholic 10.4%, Methodist 7.9%, Baptist 4.9%, Church of God 4.5%, other Christian 5.4%, other 2%, none or unspecified 5.8%

literacy
2003: 85%

Geography

Islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Puerto Rico.

Government

Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government and a Commonwealth realm. Chief of state: Queen Elizabeth II.

bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate (17 seats; members appointed by the governor general) and the House of Representatives (17 seats; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms)

Capital: Saint John's

Recent History

These two islands in the Caribbean were colonized by the Spanish and French and then by the English, who made it their colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834.

The islands became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.

SOURCES:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/