Belize (its capital, Belmopan) and neighboring states
Country Comparisons: chart
World Factbook: "Tourism is the number one foreign exchange earner in this small economy, followed by exports of marine products, citrus, cane sugar, bananas, and garments."
Economic growth rate
2011: 2.5%
2010: 2.7%
Labor force in agricutlure
2007: 10.2%
Unemployment rate
2009:
13.1%.
Public debt
2011: 83.6%
Exports - commodities:
Export commodities
Sugar, bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood, crude oil
Export partners
2010:
US 30.3%, UK 20.8%, Costa Rica 12.7%, Cote dIvoire 4.6%, Nigeria 4.6%
Export/import ratio
2011: exports $511.7 million, imports $706.1 million
Health expenditures
2009: 3.3% of GDP
Living in an urban area
2008: 52%
Ethnic groups
2000 census: mestizo 48.7%, Creole 24.9%, Maya 10.6%, Garifuna 6.1%, other 9.7%
Religions
2000:
Roman Catholic 49.6%, Protestant 25.5% (Pentecostal 7.4%, Anglican 5.3%, Seventh-Day Adventist 5.2%, Mennonite 4.1%, Methodist 3.5%), Jehovah's Witnesses 1.5%, other 14%, none 9.4%
Net migration rate
2012: zero
Density measured in 2005: 12.6 persons per square kilometer.
East of Guatemala and just south of Mexico.
Chief of state: Elizabeth II (queen, House of Windso) since 6 February 1952. Head of government: Dean Barrow (prime minister) since 8 February 2008, United Democratic Party (center-right).
Member of Commonwealth. A parliamentary democracy. Bicameral legislature. Capital: Belmopan.
Independence from Britain in 1981.
SOURCES:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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