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Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Electricity cost	45.2	US dollar per Megawatt per hours	2015
Water cost - The cost for water for industrial use per cubic meter	1.5	US$/m3	2006
Telecom cost - The cost charged by a leading telecom operator for a 1 minute call to USA	0.07	USD per minute	2015

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

Indicators for Taxes

Data Point	Value	Units	Year

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Top personal tax rate (%)	38	Percentage	2015

1 - The Heritage Foundation (Jan 2015)

Indicators for Exports

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Computer, communications and other services (% of commercial service exports)	74.1	Percentage	2014

1 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)
2 - World Development Indicators (Dec 2015)

Transport services (% of commercial service exports) 19 Percentage 2014

Indicators for Size of Industry

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
Number of companies in software & IT services	16	Number of companies	2016
Number of companies in business services	75	Number of companies	2016
Number of companies in communications	7	Number of companies	2016
Number of companies in financial services	33	Number of companies	2016
Number of BPO FDI projects (2006-15)	1	FDI projects	2006-2015
Number of BPO FDI jobs (2006-15)	528	Jobs	2006-2015

1 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)
2 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)
3 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)
4 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times (Jan 2016)
5 - fDi Markets (Jan 2015)
6 - fDi Markets (Jan 2015)

Indicators for ICT Infrastructure

Data Point	Value	Units	Year
International internet bandwidth	50458	Bits per Internet user	2014
Internet bandwidth	201.6	kb/s per user	2015
Internet download speed (kb/s)	3380.1	Kilobits per second	2014
Internet upload speed (kb/s)	1408.9	Kilobits per second	2014
Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people)	170.6	Subscriptions per 100 people	2014
Percentage of the population covered by mobile-cellular network	100	Percentage	2015
Percentage of households with personal computer	33.8	Percentage	2015
Secure internet servers	55.7	Servers per 1 million people	2014

1 - World Development Indicators: The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology (Nov 2015)
2 - Global Information Technology Report, World Economic Forum (Apr 2015)
3 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times based on Ookla Net Index (Jun 2014)
4 - fDi Intelligence from the Financial Times based on Ookla Net Index (Jun 2014)
5 - World Development Indicators (Nov 2015)
6 - World Development Indicators (Nov 2015)
7 - Global Information Technology Report, World Economic Forum (Apr 2015)
8 - Global Information Technology Report, World Economic Forum (Apr 2015)
9 - World Development Indicators (Nov 2015)

Percentage of individuals using the internet 40.1 Subscriptions per 100 people 2014

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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