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Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Electricity cost	286.6	US dollar per Megawatt per hours	2015
Water cost - The cost for water for industrial use per cubic meter	0.99	US$/m3	2014
Telecom cost - The cost charged by a leading telecom operator for a 1 minute call to USA	0.01	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)	96.8	USD per year/m2	2014
Office space (Property)	183	USD	2014
Grade A office building costs	141	USD/sq.ft.	2014
Industrial space building costs	111	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
Travel services (% of commercial service exports)	80.8	Percentage	2014

1 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)

Indicators for Track Record

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Number of companies in hotels	53	Number of companies	2016
Number of companies in leisure and entertainment	70	Number of companies	2016

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

Indicators for Attractiveness

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
International tourism, number of arrivals per capita	0.74	Arrivals	2013
Expenditure per visitor	1033	US dollar	2013
Environmental Performance Index	77	Index	2016

1 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times based on World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
2 - The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, World Economic Forum (Jun 2015)
3 - Yale University (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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