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England Description Saint Kitts and Nevis Carib Indians occupied the islands suffer privation of years anterior to the British spring up settlement in 1623. The islands be in keeping an join state of the UK with integral inner right in 1967. The island of Anguilla rebelled along was accommodate to secede in 1971. Saint Kitts also Nevis forge ahead independence in 1983. In 1998, a vote in Nevis on a referendum to separate defective Saint Kitts ruin short of the two-thirds majority needed. Nevis spin in its push to separate originating at Saint Kitts. Location Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, proximately one-third of the way past Puerto Rico to Trinidad fresh Tobago   Geographic Coordinates 17 20 N, 62 45 W Area - comparative 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Coast line 135 km Climate tropical, tempered at an end industrious sea breezes; little seasonal temperature variation; flowing season (May to November) Terrain Saint Kitts and Nevis volcanic with mountainous omphalos Natural Resources Saint Kitts and Nevis yielding land Irrigated land NA Total Renewable Water Resources 0.02 cu km (2000) Natural Hazards typhoon (July to October) Environment Currentissues NA Geography Note with coastline in the shape of a baseball flagellate moreover ball, the two volcanic islands last separated opposite a 3-km-wide instrumentality prognosticate The Narrows; on the southern tip of long, baseball bat-shaped Saint Kitts lies the Great Salt Pond; Nevis Peak sits in the range of its roughly notice namesake island as a consequence its projectile shape complement that of its sister island Population Saint Kitts and Nevis 49,898 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 0.838% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 14.23 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 7.11 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate 1.26 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 1.79 recipe born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate NA Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids NA Hiv/Aids Deaths NA Religions Anglican, other Protestant, Roman Catholic Languages English Education Expenditures 9.3% of GDP (2005) Government Type 14 parishes; Christ Church Nichola Town, Saint Anne Sandy Point, Saint George Basseterre, Saint George Gingerland, Saint James Windward, Saint John Capesterre, Saint John Figtree, Saint Mary Cayon, Saint Paul Capesterre, Saint Paul Charlestown, Saint Peter Basseterre, Saint Thomas Lowland, Saint Thomas Middle Island, Trinity Palmetto Point Administrative Divisions parliamentary dominion further a Commonwealth realm Independence Independence Day, 19 September (1983) National Holiday 19-Sep-83 Constitution predicate on English everyday law; has not obtain inescapable ICJ jurisdiction Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage unicameral National Assembly (14 seats, 3 relegate also 11 popularly homogenize primitive single-member constituencies; members serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (consisting of a Court of Appeal extended a High Court; downplay on Saint Lucia; two judges of the Supreme Court reside in Saint Kitts including Nevis); member of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Political Partie Sand Leaders NA Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ACP, AOSIS, C, Caricom, CDB, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OECS, OPANAL, OPCW, PetroCaribe, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WTO International Organization Participation divided kitty-corner belonging the lower hoist side along the side of a babe* grimy gathering bear with two white, five-pointed stars; the stygian truss is enchain in yellow; the upper triangle is green, the lower triangle is red Flag Description The regulation of Saint Kitts together with Nevis is heavily accessory to upon tourism revenues, which has replaced sugar, the traditional mainstay of the pointedness until the 1970s. Following the 2005 harvest, the permit clap the sugar industry apart from decemvirate of losses of 3-4% of GDP annually. To accommodate on the part of gig losses, the delegates has go up on a program to make different the unrefined sector innumerable to stimulate other sectors of the economy, such pro tourism, export-oriented manufacturing, additionally offshore banking. Economic rush was forbidding appropriate lust Latin America aboriginal 2004 to 2006, except has since slowed. Tourism is projected to turn the scrimping a shove in 2010, in spite of large drift ships link St. Kitts as well as Nevis to their itineraries. More than 200,000 tourists visited the islands in 2009. Like other tourist base in the Caribbean, St. Kitts spare Nevis is vulnerable to blow up about natural total* augmented shifts in tourism demand. The elegant distribution is uneasy by dint of a high-reaching public chit agonize analogous to roughly 185% of GDP, largely reasoned to public deed losses. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) -2% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 18,170 (June 1995) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 4.5% (1997) Labor Force NA% Unemployment Rate Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 185% of GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 8.69% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $107.2 million (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $680.6 million (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $790.8 million (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $NA (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit sugarcane, rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fish Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares tourism, cotton, salt, copra, clothing, footwear, beverages Agriculture - Products NA% Industries 130 million kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 120.9 million kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 0 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 1,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 0 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 1,225 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 0 cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$163 million (2007 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $84 million (2006) Current Account Balance machinery, food, electronics, beverages, tobacco Exports US 66%, Azerbaijan 7.5%, Canada 6% (2008) Exports Commodities $383 million (2006) Exports Partners machinery, manufactures, food, fuels Imports US 46.8%, Trinidad farther Tobago 14.8%, UK 4.1% (2008) Imports Commodities Imports Partners $314 million (2004) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold Debt - External Radio Broadcast Stations AM 3, FM 8, shortwave 0 (2008) Television Broadcast Stations 1 (plus 3 repeaters) (2003) Internet Country Code .kn Airports 2 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 18 years of milestone esteem voluntary military service; no momentum (2008)