Language

Official language
English (95.7%)

Other language
Antiguan Creole

T-index
0.0018%

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Demography

Capital:  Saint John’s 
Currency: Eastern Caribbean dollar
Population: 98,728 thousands
Population density: 224/km2

Economy

GDP: 1.47 billion USD (2021)
GDP per capita: 14,900.8 USD ‎(2021) ‎
Exports: $134 million (2020)

Statistics

Internet users: 76% penetration, 75.3 thousands
Unemployment rate: 4.1% (2021)
Urbanisation: 80.44% (2019)
Literacy: 98.95% (2019)

Conventions

Numbering system
Arabic numerals with dot as decimal separatorr

Date format: dd – mm – yyyy
Time: 24h time system
Country code: 001268

Economy

Imports
$662 billion (2020).  Refined Petroleum ($201M), Passenger and Cargo Ships ($185M), Recreational Boats ($16.5M), Cars ($12.1M), and Poultry Meat ($8.94M), importing mostly from United States ($269M), Poland ($114M), China ($91.2M), United Kingdom ($26.9M), and Brazil ($23.1M).

Ease of doing business
It moderately easy to conduct businesses (rated 60.3 out of 100). Ranked 14th out of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Ranked 60th out of 190 countries worldwide (2020, World Bank).

Exports
$134 billion (2020).  Passenger and Cargo Ships ($97.9M), Refined Petroleum ($20.1M), Gold ($3.57M), Rice ($1.63M), and Soybean Oil ($1M), exporting mostly to Poland ($95.4M), Dominican Republic ($18M), United Arab Emirates ($3.68M), Norway ($3.54M), and United States ($2.64M).

Media

Media language English

Information channels
Dailies and weeklies carry a range of opinions, including criticism of the government.

The first private radio station, Observer Radio, launched in 2001 after a five-year struggle to get a license. BBC World Service radio broadcasts on 89.1 FM.

There were 65,000 internet users by mid-2009 (Internet world stats). Antigua, which licenses online gambling companies, has waged a battle in the World Trade Organization over US government moves against offshore betting sites.

The press

Antigua Sun – daily
Daily Observer
The Worker’s Voice – bi-weekly, published by Antigua Labour Party and Antigua Trades and Labour Union
Caribarena Antigua – news portal

Television

ABS Television – run by Antigua and Barbuda Broadcasting Service (ABS)

Radio

ABS Radio – run by Antigua and Barbuda Broadcasting Service
Observer Radio – commercial
Caribbean Radio Lighthouse – run by the Baptist church
ZDK Liberty Radio – private, commercial
Sun FM – private, commercial
Crusader Radio – owned by United Progressive Party

Internet Data

Internet users
76% penetration rate, 75.3 thousand

Share of web traffic by device
48.01% mobile phones, 47.41% computers (laptops and desktops), 4.54% tablet devices, others 0.04%

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 198%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 65.1%

Most popular web search engines
Google (91.31%), Bing (7.11%),Yahoo (1.19%), DuckDuckgo (0.23%), Yandex (0.11%) Ecosia (0.03%),

Most used social media
Facebook (94.66%), Instagram (2.61%), Pinterest (1.48%), Twitter (0.67%), YouTube (0.41%), Reddit (0.01%)