Compare Anguilla (2008) - Arctic Ocean (2002)

Compare Anguilla (2008) z Arctic Ocean (2002)

	Anguilla (2008)	Arctic Ocean (2002)

Administrative divisions	none (overseas territory of the UK)	-
Age structure	0-14 years: 22.3% (male 1,546/female 1,502) 15-64 years: 70.8% (male 4,979/female 4,705) 65 years and over: 6.9% (male 423/female 522) (2007 est.)	-
Agriculture - products	small quantities of tobacco, vegetables; cattle raising	-
Airports	3 (2007)	-
Airports - with paved runways	total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)	-
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 2 under 914 m: 2 (2007)	-
Area	total: 102 sq km land: 102 sq km water: 0 sq km	total: 14.056 million sq km note: includes Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Northwest Passage, and other tributary water bodies
Area - comparative	about half the size of Washington, DC	slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US
Background	Colonized by English settlers from Saint Kitts in 1650, Anguilla was administered by Great Britain until the early 19th century, when the island - against the wishes of the inhabitants - was incorporated into a single British dependency, along with Saint Kitts and Nevis. Several attempts at separation failed. In 1971, two years after a revolt, Anguilla was finally allowed to secede; this arrangement was formally recognized in 1980, with Anguilla becoming a separate British dependency.	The Arctic Ocean is the smallest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the recently delimited Southern Ocean). The Northwest Passage (US and Canada) and Northern Sea Route (Norway and Russia) are two important seasonal waterways. A sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes circumscribes the Arctic Ocean.
Birth rate	13.97 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)	-
Budget	revenues: $22.8 million expenditures: $22.5 million (2000 est.)	-
Capital	name: The Valley geographic coordinates: 18 13 N, 63 03 W time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)	-
Climate	tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds	polar climate characterized by persistent cold and relatively narrow annual temperature ranges; winters characterized by continuous darkness, cold and stable weather conditions, and clear skies; summers characterized by continuous daylight, damp and foggy weather, and weak cyclones with rain or snow
Coastline	61 km	45,389 km
Constitution	Anguilla Constitutional Order 1 April 1982; amended 1990	-
Country name	conventional long form: none conventional short form: Anguilla	-
Death rate	5.34 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)	-
Debt - external	$8.8 million (1998)	-
Dependency status	overseas territory of the UK	-
Diplomatic representation from the US	none (overseas territory of the UK)	-
Diplomatic representation in the US	none (overseas territory of the UK)	-
Disputes - international	none	some maritime disputes (see littoral states); Russia is the first state to submit data to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to extend its continental shelf by claiming two undersea ridges in the Arctic Ocean
Economic aid - recipient	$9 million (2004 est.)	-
Economy - overview	Anguilla has few natural resources, and the economy depends heavily on luxury tourism, offshore banking, lobster fishing, and remittances from emigrants. Increased activity in the tourism industry, which has spurred the growth of the construction sector, has contributed to economic growth. Anguillan officials have put substantial effort into developing the offshore financial sector, which is small, but growing. In the medium term, prospects for the economy will depend largely on the tourism sector and, therefore, on revived income growth in the industrialized nations as well as on favorable weather conditions.	Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, fish, and seals.
Electricity - production	NA kWh	-
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Crocus Hill 65 m	lowest point: Fram Basin -4,665 m highest point: sea level 0 m
Environment - current issues	supplies of potable water sometimes cannot meet increasing demand largely because of poor distribution system	endangered marine species include walruses and whales; fragile ecosystem slow to change and slow to recover from disruptions or damage; thinning polar icepack
Ethnic groups	black (predominant) 90.1%, mixed, mulatto 4.6%, white 3.7%, other 1.5% (2001 Census)	-
Exchange rates	East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7 (2007), 2.7 (2006), 2.7 (2005), 2.7 (2004), 2.7 (2003) note: fixed rate since 1976	-
Executive branch	chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor Andrew N. GEORGE (since 10 July 2006) head of government: Chief Minister Osbourne FLEMING (since 3 March 2000) cabinet: Executive Council appointed by the governor from among the elected members of the House of Assembly elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; governor appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed chief minister by the governor	-
Exports	$13 million (2006)	-
Exports - commodities	lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum	-
Exports - partners	UK, US, Puerto Rico, Saint-Martin (2006)	-
Fiscal year	1 April - 31 March	-
Flag description	blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant and the Anguillan coat of arms centered in the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms depicts three orange dolphins in an interlocking circular design on a white background with blue wavy water below	-
GDP - composition by sector	agriculture: 4% industry: 18% services: 78% (2002 est.)	-
GDP - real growth rate	10.2% (2004 est.)	-
Geographic coordinates	18 15 N, 63 10 W	90 00 N, 0 00 E
Geography - note	the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles	major chokepoint is the southern Chukchi Sea (northern access to the Pacific Ocean via the Bering Strait); strategic location between North America and Russia; shortest marine link between the extremes of eastern and western Russia; floating research stations operated by the US and Russia; maximum snow cover in March or April about 20 to 50 centimeters over the frozen ocean; snow cover lasts about 10 months
Household income or consumption by percentage share	lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%	-
Illicit drugs	transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe	-
Imports	$143 million (2006)	-
Imports - commodities	fuels, foodstuffs, manufactures, chemicals, trucks, textiles	-
Imports - partners	US, Puerto Rico, UK (2006)	-
Independence	none (overseas territory of the UK)	-
Industrial production growth rate	3.1% (1997 est.)	-
Industries	tourism, boat building, offshore financial services	-
Infant mortality rate	total: 19.61 deaths/1,000 live births male: 25.74 deaths/1,000 live births female: 13.3 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)	-
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	5.3% (2006 est.)	-
International organization participation	Caricom (associate), CDB, Interpol (subbureau), OECS, UPU	-
Irrigated land	NA	-
Judicial branch	High Court (judge provided by Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court)	-
Labor force	6,049 (2001)	-
Labor force - by occupation	agriculture/fishing/forestry/mining 4%, manufacturing 3%, construction 18%, transportation and utilities 10%, commerce 36%, services 29% (2000 est.)	-
Land boundaries	0 km	-
Land use	arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% other: 100% (mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds) (2005)	-
Languages	English (official)	-
Legal system	based on English common law	-
Legislative branch	unicameral House of Assembly (11 seats; 7 members elected by direct popular vote, 2 ex officio members, and 2 appointed; to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 21 February 2005 (next to be held in 2010) election results: percent of vote by party - AUF 38.9%, AUM 19.4%, ANSA 19.2%, APP 9.5%, independents 13%; seats by party - AUF 4, ANSA 2, AUM 1	-
Life expectancy at birth	total population: 77.46 years male: 74.53 years female: 80.49 years (2007 est.)	-
Literacy	definition: age 12 and over can read and write total population: 95% male: 95% female: 95% (1984 est.)	-
Location	Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico	body of water between Europe, Asia, and North America, mostly north of the Arctic Circle
Map references	Central America and the Caribbean	Arctic Region
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm	-
Military - note	defense is the responsibility of the UK	-
National holiday	Anguilla Day, 30 May (1967)	-
Nationality	noun: Anguillan(s) adjective: Anguillan	-
Natural hazards	frequent hurricanes and other tropical storms (July to October)	ice islands occasionally break away from northern Ellesmere Island; icebergs calved from glaciers in western Greenland and extreme northeastern Canada; permafrost in islands; virtually ice locked from October to June; ships subject to superstructure icing from October to May
Natural resources	salt, fish, lobster	sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales)
Net migration rate	5.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)	-
Political parties and leaders	Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The Anguilla United Front or AUF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS] (a coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or ANA); Anguilla Progressive Party or APP [Roy ROGERS]; Anguilla Strategic Alternative or ANSA [Edison BAIRD]	-
Political pressure groups and leaders	NA	-
Population	13,677 (July 2007 est.)	-
Population below poverty line	23% (2002)	-
Population growth rate	1.375% (2007 est.)	-
Ports and harbors	-	Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 2, FM 7, shortwave 0 (2004)	-
Religions	Anglican 29%, Methodist 23.9%, other Protestant 30.2%, Roman Catholic 5.7%, other Christian 1.7%, other 5.2%, none or unspecified 4.3% (2001 census)	-
Sex ratio	at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.029 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.058 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.81 male(s)/female total population: 1.033 male(s)/female (2007 est.)	-
Suffrage	18 years of age; universal	-
Telephone system	general assessment: NA domestic: modern internal telephone system international: country code - 1-264; landing point for the East Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) optic submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad; microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles) (2007)	-
Telephones - main lines in use	6,200 (2002)	-
Telephones - mobile cellular	1,800 (2002)	-
Television broadcast stations	1 (1997)	-
Terrain	flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone	central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that averages about 3 meters in thickness, although pressure ridges may be three times that size; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort Gyral Stream, but nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in size during the winter and extends to the encircling landmasses; the ocean floor is about 50% continental shelf (highest percentage of any ocean) with the remainder a central basin interrupted by three submarine ridges (Alpha Cordillera, Nansen Cordillera, and Lomonosov Ridge)
Total fertility rate	1.72 children born/woman (2007 est.)	-
Transportation - note	-	sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes; the Northwest Passage (North America) and Northern Sea Route (Eurasia) are important seasonal waterways
Unemployment rate	8% (2002)	-

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