St. Vincent & Grenadines
Latin America & Caribbean
Upper middle income Upper middleincome group 2009
Country data 2000 Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 1995–2000 and 2000–09 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, and tertiary enrollment (%)
0.11 44 2,920 5.7 .. 76
Structure Separate telecommunications regulator No Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Private Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) International long distance service M Mobile telephone service M Internet service M Efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile cellular and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue)
8.5 165 15.2
Performance Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) 23.1 Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) 2.2 Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (per 100 people) 2.5 Personal computers (per 100 people) 11.1 Households with a television (%) .. Usage International voice traffic, total (minutes per person per month) .. Mobile telephone usage (minutes per user per month) .. Internet users (per 100 people) 3.2 Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) 55 Fixed broadband Internet subscribers (% of total subscribers) 0.0 International Internet bandwidth (bits per second per person) 37 Affordability Residential fixed line tariff ($ a month) .. Mobile cellular prepaid tariff ($ a month) .. Fixed broadband Internet access tariff ($ a month) .. Trade 0.6 ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) 5.7 ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) 9.2 ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications .. E-gov’t Web measure index (0–1, 1=highest presence) 27.8 Secure Internet servers (per million people)
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology
2009 0.11 47 5,130 4.5 .. 80
1,002 75 7,502 4.4 92 82
Yes Private C C C
0.4 19,109 ..
3.3 576 18.0
21.1 110.9 10.8 15.2 ..
22.1 100.6 19.4 11.2 93
.. .. 69.6
.. 157 34.6
100 97.4 275
94 41.6 1,120
10.9 8.3 33.6
10.0 8.8 18.8
11.0 4.0 6.1
12.2 15.1 5.4
0.13 109.8
0.30 32.2
2011
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