Yearbook 2009
Saint Lucia. In a report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August, it emerged that Saint Lucia’s economy during the first half of the year had suffered “extensive damage as a result of the global economic downturn”. According to countryaah, the main reason for this was, according to the IMF, “a sudden fall in demand in the tourism sector, which was the country’s primary source of income in foreign currency and tax revenue”. A few days before the report was published, the IMF had granted Saint Lucia a large loan. See ABBREVIATIONFINDER for abbreviation ST which stands for the nation of St. Lucia.
Economy
| Inflation rate | 0.10% |
| Unemployment rate | 20% |
| Gross domestic product (GDP) | $ 2,542,000,000 |
| GDP growth rate | 3.00% |
| GDP per capita | $ 14,400 |
| GDP by sector | |
| Agriculture | 2.90% |
| Industry | 14.20% |
| Service | 82.80% |
| State budget | |
| Revenue | 141.2 million |
| Expenditure | 146.7 million |
| Proportion of the population below the national poverty line | – |
| Distribution of household income | |
| Top 10% | k. A. |
| Lower 10% | k. A. |
| Industrial production growth rate | 4.00% |
| Investment volume | |
| National debt | 70.70% of GDP |
| Foreign exchange reserves | |
| Tourism | 2014 |
| Number of visitors | 338,000 |
| Revenue | $ 354,000,000 |