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Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Electricity cost	50	US dollar per Megawatt per hours	2015
Water cost - The cost for water for industrial use per cubic meter	0.6	US$/m3	2014
Telecom cost - The cost charged by a leading telecom operator for a 1 minute call to USA	0.04	USD per minute	2013

1 - Climatescope (Jun 2015)
2 - Corporacion del acueducto y Acantarillado de Santo Domingo (Nov 2015)
3 - International Telecommunication Union - ITU (Jun 2013)

Indicators for Property Costs

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Industrial space (Property)	79.2	USD per year/m2	2012
Office space (Property)	282.9	USD	2011
Grade A office building costs	252	USD/sq.ft.	2014
Industrial space building costs	188	USD/sq.ft.	2014

1 - Cushman and Wakefield (Apr 2015)
2 - Cushman and Wakefield (Apr 2015)
3 - RLB - Rider Levett Bucknall (Caribbean Report) (Oct 2015)
4 - RLB - Rider Levett Bucknall (Caribbean Report) (Oct 2014)

Indicators for Taxes

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Top personal tax rate (%)	25	Percentage	2015

1 - The Heritage Foundation (Jan 2015)

Indicators for Exports

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Agricultural raw materials exports (% of merchandise exports)	0.03	Percentage	2010
Exports of food, beverages and tobacco (% of total goods exports)	2.4	Percentage	2014
Exports of food, beverages and tobacco per capita	198.1	US dollar	2014

1 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
2 - Based on UN Comtrade database (Jan 2016)
3 - Based on UN Comtrade database (Jan 2016)

Indicators for Size of Industry

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Agriculture, value added (annual % growth)	5.1	Percentage	2013
Agriculture, value added (% of GDP)	0.6	Percentage	2013
Food production index	96.4	Index (2004-2006 are the base of 100)	2013
Crop production index	60.3	Index (2004-2006 are the base of 100)	2013
Cereal production	6359	Metric tons	2013
Cereal yield	1628	Kg per hectare	2013

1 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times based on World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
2 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
3 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
4 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
5 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
6 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)

Indicators for Natural Resources

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)	9.3	Percentage	2012
Arable land (% of land area)	4.9	Percentage	2013
Arable land	25000	Hectares	2013
Forest area (% of land area)	45.1	Percentage	2013
Forest area	2249.6	Square kilometers	2012

1 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
2 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
3 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
4 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
5 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)

Indicators for Track Record

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Number of companies in beverages	32	Number of companies	2016
Number of companies in food and tobacco	147	Number of companies	2016

1 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)
2 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$2.216 billion (2013 est.)
$2.211 billion (2012 est.)
$2.23 billion (2011 est.)
note: data are in 2013 US dollars

Population growth rate:

0.35% (2014 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

0.2% (2013 est.)
-0.9% (2012 est.)
1.8% (2011 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$13,100 (2013 est.)
$13,200 (2012 est.)
$13,400 (2011 est.)
note: data are in 2013 US dollars

Diplomatic representation from the US:

The US does not have an embassy in Saint Lucia; the US Ambassador to Barbados is accredited to Saint Lucia

Age structure:

0-14 years: 21.2% (male 17,814/female 16,809)
15-24 years: 16.6% (male 13,701/female 13,368)
25-54 years: 42.9% (male 33,695/female 36,445)
55-64 years: 8.8% (male 6,657/female 7,717)
65 years and over: 10.2% (male 7,760/female 9,396) (2014 est.)

Geographic coordinates:

13 53 N, 60 58 W

GDP - composition, by sector of origin:

agriculture: 3.1%
industry: 17.4%
services: 79.5% (2013 est.)

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 0.93 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.83 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2014 est.)

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