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Capital:
Victoria
Government:
Unitary Presidential Republic
Current Head of Government:
Wavel Ramkalawan
Economy:
- Economic growth has been fueled by the tourist sector, which employs about 30% of the labor force and provides more than 70% of hard currency earnings, and by tuna fishing.
Population:
96,387 (July 2021 est.)
Land Size:
455 sq km (176 sq miles)
Major Ethnic Groups:
- Mixed French
- African
- Indian
- Chinese
- Arab
Religions:
- Roman Catholicism: 82.3%
- Protestantism: 7.5% (Anglican: 6.4%, Seventh-Day Adventist: 1.1%)
- Other Christianity: 3.4%
- Hinduism: 2.1%
- Islam: 1.1%
- Other non-Christianity: 1.5%
- Unspecified: 1.5%
- None: 0.6%
Languages(s):
- Creole: 91.8%
- English (official): 4.9%
- Other: 3.1%
- Unspecified: 0.2%