About the Cayman Islands

Capital (and largest city) - George Town

Official languages - English

Demonym - Caymanian

Government - British Overseas Territory

Queen - Queen Elizabeth II

Governor - Stuart Jack

Leader of Government Business - Kurt Tibbetts

Creation - Split from Jamaica 1962

Area - Total 260 km² (207th) 100.4 sq mi - Water (%) 1.6

Population - 2005 estimate 45,017 (208th) - 1999 census 0 - Density 139.5/km² (63rd)
364.2/sq mi HDI (2003) n/a (NA) (unranked)

Currency Cayman Islands - dollar (KYD)

Time zone (UTC-5) - Summer (DST) not observed (UTC-5)

Internet TLD - .ky

Calling code - +1 345

GDP: purchasing power parity - $1.939 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate: 1.7% (2005 est.)

GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $43,800 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 3.2%
services: 95.4% (1994 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.4% (2004)

Labor force: 23,450 (2004)

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 1.4%, industry 12.6%, services 86% (1995)

Unemployment rate: 4.4% (2004)

Budget:
revenues: $423.8 million
expenditures: $392.6 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997)

Industries: tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction materials, furniture

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity - production: 441.9 million kWh (2003)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

Electricity - consumption: 411 million kWh (2003)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)

Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruit; livestock, turtle ,sea salt farming

Exports: $2.52 million (2004)

Exports - commodities: turtle products, sea salt ,manufactured consumer goods

Exports - partners: mostly US (2004)

Imports: $866.9 million (2004)

Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods

Imports - partners: US, Netherlands Antilles, Japan (2004)

Debt - external: $70 million (1996)

Economic aid - recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 Caymanian dollar (CI$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Caymanian dollars per US dollar - 0.82 ( 29 October 2001), 0.83 ( 3 November 1995), 0.85 ( 22 November 1993)

Fiscal year: 1 April–31 March