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 Arctic OceanAnguilla
Administrative divisions - none (overseas territory of the UK)
Age structure - 0-14 years: 23.8% (male 1,569; female 1,523)


15-64 years: 69.4% (male 4,641; female 4,385)


65 years and over: 6.8% (male 396; female 494) (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products - small quantities of tobacco, vegetables; cattle raising
Airports - 3 (2003 est.)
Airports - with paved runways - total: 1


914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways - total: 2


under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)
Area 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
total: 102 sq km


land: 102 sq km


water: 0 sq km
Area - comparative slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US about half the size of Washington, DC
Background 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. 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.
Birth rate - 14.45 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Budget - revenues: $22.8 million


expenditures: $22.5 million, including capital expenditures of NA (2000 est.)
Capital - The Valley
Climate 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 tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds
Coastline 45,389 km 61 km
Constitution - Anguilla Constitutional Order 1 April 1982; amended 1990
Country name - conventional long form: none


conventional short form: Anguilla
Currency - East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Death rate - 5.46 deaths/1,000 population (2004 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 some maritime disputes (see littoral states) none
Economic aid - recipient - $3.5 million (1995)
Economy - overview Economic activity is limited to the exploitation of natural resources, including petroleum, natural gas, fish, and seals. 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.
Electricity - consumption - 42.6 million kWh
Electricity - production - NA
Elevation extremes lowest point:
Fram Basin -4,665 m

highest point:
sea level 0 m
lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m


highest point: Crocus Hill 65 m
Environment - current issues endangered marine species include walruses and whales; fragile ecosystem slow to change and slow to recover from disruptions or damage; thinning polar icepack supplies of potable water sometimes cannot meet increasing demand largely because of poor distribution system
Ethnic groups - black (predominant), mulatto, white
Exchange rates - East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.70 (fixed rate since 1976)
Executive branch - chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor Alan Eden HUCKLE (since 28 May 2004)


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 - $2.6 million (1999)
Exports - commodities - lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum
Exports - partners - UK, US, Puerto Rico, Saint-Martin (2000)
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 - purchasing power parity - $104 million (2001 est.)
GDP - composition by sector - agriculture: 4%


industry: 18%


services: 78% (1997 est.)
GDP - per capita - purchasing power parity - $8,600 (2001 est.)
GDP - real growth rate - 2.8% (2001 est.)
Geographic coordinates 90 00 N, 0 00 E 18 15 N, 63 10 W
Geography - note 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 the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles
Highways - total: 105 km


paved: 65 km


unpaved: 40 km (1997)
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 - $80.9 million (1999)
Imports - commodities - fuels, foodstuffs, manufactures, chemicals, trucks, textiles
Imports - partners - US, Puerto Rico, UK (2000)
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: 21.91 deaths/1,000 live births


male: 28.72 deaths/1,000 live births


female: 14.91 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices) - 2.3%
International organization participation - Caricom (associate), CDB, Interpol (subbureau), OECS (associate), UPU
Irrigated land - NA sq km
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) (2001)
Languages - English (official)
Legal system - based on English common law
Legislative branch - unicameral House of Assembly (11 seats total, 7 elected by direct popular vote, 2 ex officio members, and 2 appointed; members serve five-year terms)


elections: last held 3 March 2000 (next to be held NA June 2005)


election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - ANA 3, AUM 2, ADP 1, independent 1
Life expectancy at birth - total population: 76.9 years


male: 73.99 years


female: 79.91 years (2004 est.)
Literacy - definition: age 12 and over can read and write


total population: 95%


male: 95%


female: 95% (1984 est.)
Location body of water between Europe, Asia, and North America, mostly north of the Arctic Circle Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico
Map references Arctic Region Central America and the Caribbean
Maritime claims - territorial sea: 3 nm


exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
Merchant marine - none
Military - note - defense is the responsibility of the UK
National holiday - Anguilla Day, 30 May
Nationality - noun: Anguillan(s)


adjective: Anguillan
Natural hazards 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 frequent hurricanes and other tropical storms (July to October)
Natural resources sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales) salt, fish, lobster
Net migration rate - 10.76 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
Political parties and leaders - Anguilla United Movement or AUM [Hubert HUGHES]; The United Front or UF [Osbourne FLEMING, Victor BANKS], a coalition of the Anguilla Democratic Party or ADP and the Anguilla National Alliance or ANA; Anguilla Patriotic Movement or APM [Quincy GUMBS]; Movement for Grassroots Democracy or MFGD [Joyce KENTISH, John BENJAMIN]
Political pressure groups and leaders - NA
Population - 13,008 (July 2004 est.)
Population below poverty line - NA
Population growth rate - 1.98% (2004 est.)
Ports and harbors Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US) Blowing Point, Road Bay
Radio broadcast stations - AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998)
Religions - Anglican 40%, Methodist 33%, Seventh-Day Adventist 7%, Baptist 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, other 12%
Sex ratio - at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female


under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female


15-64 years: 1.06 male(s)/female


65 years and over: 0.8 male(s)/female


total population: 1.03 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
Suffrage - 18 years of age; universal
Telephone system - general assessment: NA


domestic: modern internal telephone system


international: country code - 1-264; microwave radio relay to island of Saint Martin (Guadeloupe and Netherlands Antilles)
Telephones - main lines in use - 6,200 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular - 1,800 (2002)
Television broadcast stations - 1 (1997)
Terrain 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) flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
Total fertility rate - 1.74 children born/woman (2004 est.)
Unemployment rate - 6.7% (2001)
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