prices): -0.934% (2016 est.) Labour force: 50,300 (2011) Labour force - by occupation: agriculture 21.7%, industry and commerce 24.7%, services 53.6% (2002 est.) Unemployment rate: 15% (2013 est.) Pay: best is $350 a week Budget: revenues: $141.2 million expenditures: $146.7 million, including capital expenditures of $25.1 million (2000 estimate) Industries: clothing, assembly of electronic components, beverages, corrugated cardboard boxes, tourism, lime processing, coconut processing Industrial production growth rate: 8.9% (1997 est.) Electricity - production: 281 GWh (2003) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 102 KWh (1998) Agriculture - products: bananas, coconuts, vegetables, citrus, root crops, cocoa Exports: $82 million (2004) Exports - commodities: bananas 41%, clothing, cocoa, vegetables, fruits, coconut oil Exports - partners: France 25%, United States 18.3%, United Kingdom 14.5%, Brazil 6.8% (2005) Imports: $410 million (2004) Imports - commodities: food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery and transportation equipment 19%, chemicals, fuels Imports - partners: United States 23.8%, Trinidad and Tobago 16%, Netherlands 11.1%, Venezuela 6.3%, Finland 6.2%, United Kingdom 5.7%, France 4.7% (2005) Debt - external: $214 million (2000) Economic aid - recipient: $51.8 million (1995) Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 – 2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976) Fiscal year: 1 April – 31 March References Saint Lucia