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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS FOR THE BVI

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-	HDR Ind*	Indicators	Year	BVI
-	-	DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY INDEX	-	-
1	-	Development Index. (HDR)	-	-
1.1	*	Human Development Index	-	0.931
1.2	*	Human Poverty Index	-	-
1.3	*	Gender Related Development Index	-	-
1.4	*	Gender Empowerment Measure	-	-
2	-	WELL BEING AND POVERTY	-	-
2.1	-	Head count index- (percentage of population below income poverty line). ,- $1 a day (1985 PPP$) ,- National Poverty Line ,- OECS Standard	-	17.7
2.2	-	Head count of indigent persons (percentage of population below indigence line	-	-
2.3	-	Poverty Gap Index ] (by geographic location).	-	-
2.4	-	Squared poverty gap index} (by community level)	-	0.41
2.5	-	Gini index of income inequality.] (by household level and sex of head of household)	-	-
3	-	PROFILE OF PEOPLE IN WORK	-	-
3.1	-	Labour Force	-	11,996
3.1.1	*	Labour Force (as % of total pop.)-3 broad age groups: i. 15-29 ii. 30-49 iii.50+	-	38.3 49.7 11.9
3.1.2	*	Women's Share of Adult (15+ yrs) in Labour Force (women per 100 Men in the Labour Force)	-	-
3.1.3	*	% of Labour Force in: i. Agriculture a. Banana b. Sugar Cane c. Other ii. Industry. iii. Services a. Tourism Services b. Retail Distributive Trade c. Professional d. Financial Services e. Other f. Total Services as a percent of Labour Force	-	5.8 20.98 12.72 10.73 7.54 79.61 15.86
3.1.4	*	Real Earnings per Employee (Annual Growth Rate (%)	-	10.04
3.1.5	-	Ratio of Average Female wage to male wage to be classified by sectors a. Professional b. Tourism c. Services d. Agriculture e. Other f. Total	-	20.98 5.8 7.54
3.1.6	*	Professional and Technical workers per 1,000 inhabitants.	-	-
3.2	-	EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR STATISTICS	-	-
3.2.1	*	Total Unemployment Rate (%)	-	3.56
3.2.2	*	Unemployment Rate by age, sex and geographic location.	-	13.1
3.2.3	*	Youth Unemployment Rate by sex. (in %): (Total) Male (age 15-24) Female (age 15-24)	-	-
3.2.4	*	M/F Ratio by Employment Status - (in the past 12 months): - employed - seeking work - first seekers - wanted work and available - unemployed	-	-
3.2.5	*	Ratio of Employed to Unemployed per Household (Employment Dependency Ratio).	-	-
3.2.6	-	Employment - Population Ratio, by sex for formal and informal sector.	-	-
4	-	POPULATION AND FAMILY	-	-
4.1	-	Population Trends and Characteristics.	-	-
4.1.1	*	Estimated Population 1970 (census) (Total in thousands) 1980 (census) 1990/91 (census) 2021 (projected)	-	9,765 10.985 16,115 27,275
4.1.2	*	Population Density (by Selected areas, where required)	-	24/sq.km
4.1.3	*	Population Growth Rate 1970-1995 1995-2015	-	2.25
4.1.4	*	Population Doubling Date (at current growth rate)	-	2,030
4.1.5	-	Index of Aging	-	4.5
4.1.6	*	Age Dependency Ratio	-	7.23
4.1.7	-	Economic Dependency Ratio	-	-
4.1.8	-	People with disabilities (as a percentage of population)	-	-
4.1.9	-	Non-resident (tourist) population as a percentage of total population. a. Cruise ship b. Non- cruise ship	-	105,142 392,290
4.2	-	Population Distribution	-	-
4.2.1	-	Population Distribution by sex, age (5 year age groups- for ages 0-14, 15-19, 20.24, 25-29, 30-64, 65+) & location projected up to year 2015 1991 (Male)	-	-
-	-	0-14	-	2,308
-	-	15-19	-	629
-	-	20-24	-	774
-	-	25-29	-	995
-	-	30-64	-	3,395
-	-	65+	-	503
-	-	1991 (female) 0-14	-	2,239
-	-	15-19	-	633
-	-	20-24	-	792
-	-	25-29	-	928
-	-	30-64	-	3,084
-	-	65+	-	430
-	-	2015 (Male) 0-14	-	2,820
-	-	15-19	-	951
-	-	20-24	-	989
-	-	25-29	-	954
-	-	30-64	-	6,295
-	-	65+	-	990
-	-	2015 (female) 0-14	-	2,717
-	-	15-19	-	928
-	-	20-24	-	958
-	-	25-29	-	928
-	-	30-64	-	5,909
-	-	65+	-	943
4.2.2	-	Emigration by Age and Sex, Occupation and Education. 1991 (Male) 0-14	-	47
-	-	15-19	-	33
-	-	20-24	-	46
-	-	25-29	-	24
-	-	30-64	-	40
-	-	65+	-	2
-	-	1991 (female) 0-14	-	34
-	-	15-19	-	49
-	-	20-24	-	75
-	-	25-29	-	30
-	-	30-64	-	66
-	-	65+	-	11
4.2.3	-	Immigration by Age and Sex, Occupation and Education	-	-
4.3	-	Households and Family	-	-
4.3.1	-	Single parent households by sex with and without child(ren)	-	1,531
4.3.2	-	Single-person households aged 65+ years as % of all households by sex.	-	3
4.3.3	-	Mean Household size	-	-
4.4	-	Vital Statistics	-	-
-	-	a. Fertility rates	-	-
4.4.1	*	Crude Birth Rate (CBR)	1997	18.37
4.4.2	*	Total Fertility Rate (TFR)	1997	2.2
4.4.3	-	Fertility Rtaes of Women - (ASFR) for ages: (a) ,15; (b) 15-19 and (c) 20-29 years	-	-
-	-	15-19	-	49.7
-	-	20-24	-	141.5
-	-	25-29	-	111.1
--	-	30-34	-	73.9
-	-	35-39	-	47.2
-	-	40+	-	18.4
4.4.4	-	Proportion of Total Births born to Women of age (a) <15; (b) 15-19 years.	-	-
4.4.5	-	Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (any Method)	-	-
4.4.6	-	Contraceptive Use by sex <20 years.	-	-
-	-	b. Death Rates	-	-
4.4.7	*	Crude Death Rate (CDR)	-	4.47
5	-	SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND EMPOWERMENT	-	-
5.1	-	CIVIL SOCIETY	-	-
5.1.1	-	Civil Society Organizations/NGOs per 1,000 inhabitants. - by type of activity.	-	-
5.1.2	-	% resource allocation to local government authorities as a % of GDP.	-	--
5.2	-	Women's Participation in Economic and Social Life (Total%)	-	-
5.2.1	*	% of female Administrators and Managers	-	-
5.2.2	*	% of female Professional and Technical Workers	-	-
5.2.3	*	% Female Sales and Service Workers	-	-
5.2.4	*	% Female Clerical Workers.	-	-
5.2.5	*	% Women in Judiciary	-	-
5.2.6	*	Female Unpaid Family Workers( as % of Total)	-	-
5.2.7	*	Female Economic Activity Rate (as % of Male Rate)	-	-
5.3	-	Women-in-Government (%)	-	-
5.3.1	*	At Ministerial Level	-	-
5.3.2	*	At Sub-Ministerial level	-	-
5.3.3	-	In Parliament	-	-
5.3.4	-	In Government	-	-
5.4	-	Profile of Political Life	-	-
5.4.1	*	Voter's Turn- out at last two(2) election - (% of total voting age population)	-	-
5.5	-	Access to Information.	-	-
5.5.1	*	Radios (per 1000 people)	-	-
5.5.2	*	TV (per 1000 people)	-	534.74
5.5.3	*	Printing & Writing papers consumed (metric tons/1000 people)	-	398.92
5.5.4	*	Post Offices per 1,000 people	-	0.5
5.5.5	*	Main Telephone lines (per 1,000 people)	-	61.4
5.5.6	*	Public pay phones (per 1000 people)	-	7.54
5.5.7	*	International telephone calls (minutes per person)	-	-
5.5.8	*	Cellular mobile telephone subscribers (per 1000 people)	-	195.05
5.5.9	*	Internet Users (per 1,000people)	-	82.12
5.5.10	*	Personal Computers (per 1,000 people)	-	-
5.5.11	*	Newspaper Circulation per 1,000 inhabitants.	-	-
6	-	SETTLEMENTS AND TRANSPORT	-	-
6.1	-	Urbanization	-	-
6.1.1	*	Urban Population ( as % of total ) - 1970 - 1995 - 2015	-	-
6.1.2	*	Urban population Annual Growth Rate (%) - 1970-95 -1995-2015	-	-
6.1.3	-	Total public expenditure on infrastructure provision, per capita.	-	-
6.1.4	-	Community facilities per capita (rural/urban)	-	-
6.1.5	-	Recreational facilities per capita (sporting etc)	-	-
6.2	-	Energy Use	-	-
6.2.1	*	Electricity consumption (1995).- i. Total millions of kilowatts-hours ii. Index (1980=100) iii. Per capita (kilowatts -hours) iv. Proportion of households with electricity connection (rural/urban)	-	-
6.2.2	*	Traditional Fuel consumption (as % of total consumption)	-	-
6.2.3	*	Household energy from fuel -wood - (1990)	-	-
6.2.4	*	Commercial energy use (oil equivalent) i. Total (1,000 metric tons) ii. Per Capita (kg) iii. GDP output per kg (US$)	-	-
6.2.5	*	Net commercial energy imports (as % of energy consumption): (using 1994 as base year for relative measurement).	-	-
6.3	-	Housing and Households	-	-
6.3.1	-	Distribution of households by: - number of rooms (excluding kitchen and bathroom) - type of water - Toilet facility - Electricity - Type of Tenure	-	-
6.3.2	-	Percent of Overcrowding by location ( persons per room	-	-
6.3.3	--	Changes in housing inventory and occupancy by location.	-	--
6.3.4	-	Housing type by year when built	-	-
6.3.5	-	Housing by type of material	-	-
6.3.6	-	Rental rates by housing type	-	-
6.3.7	-	Rental as a percentage of total expenditure	-	-
6.4	-	Transport	-	-
6.4.1	-	Road Traffic flows, per km. of road (rural/urban).	-	-
6.4.2	-	Extent of road network; (% land area (rural/urban)).	-	-
6.4.3	-	Number of privately owned vehicles, per capita	-	-
6.4.4	-	Number of commercially owned vehicles, per capita	-	-
6.4.5	-	Consumption of fossil fuel by motor vehicle transport, per capita.	-	-
6.4.6	-	Transport provision: expenditure a. Private b. Tour Buses c. Car Rentals d. Mini Buses e. Ferry	-	-
6.5	-	Natural Disaster	-	-
6.5.1	-	Natural disaster preparedness (councils, existence & completeness of plans at sector and national levels, etc)	-	-
6.5.2	-	Human and economic loss due to natural disaster (extent of damage/loss per capita)	-	-
6.5.3	-	Vulnerability index	-	-
7	-	EDUCATION, PUBLIC AWARENESS AND TRAINING	-	-
7.1	-	Education Characteristics of the Population.	-	-
7.1.1	*	Adult Functional Literacy Rate - (% by Sex) - Male - Female	1991 1991	97.8 98.7
7.1.2	-	School Life Expectancy	-	-
7.1.3	-	Professional and technical workers per 1,000 population	-	-
7.1.4	-	Children reaching grade 5 of primary education per 1,000	-	-
7.2	-	Enrolment Ratios	-	-
7.2.1	*	Gross/Net Enrolment Ratio: I. Primary : -total -female as % of Males	-	-
-	-	II. Secondary - total - female as % of Males	-	-
-	-	III. Tertiary: - total - female as % of Males	-	-
-	-	IV. Technical /Vocational Institutions by sex	-	-
-	-	V. Pre -School by Sex	-	-
-	-	VI. Continuing/Adult Education by sex	-	-
7.2.2	*	Tertiary Natural & Applied Sciences Students (as % of Total Tertiary Students) for M & F.	-	-
7.2.3	*	R & D Scientists and Technicians per 1000 population.	-	-
7.2.4	-	Number of computers per thousand students by - Primary - Secondary - Tertiary	-	-
7.3	-	Women's Access to Education:	-	-
7.3.1	*	(Female Net Enrolment Ratio) - Primary: 1995 Index (1985 = 100) - Secondary 1995 Index (1985 =100)	1991	48 51
7.3.2	*	Female Tertiary Students - Per 1,000 women - Index (1985=100)	-	-
7.3.3	*	Female Tertiary Natural & Applied Science Students . ( as % of Female Students.-)	-	-
7.4	*	Expenditures On Education Public expenditure on : I. Education - as % of GDP (1995) II. Primary and Secondary Education as % of all levels (1990-95) III. Higher Education as % of all levels. IV. Expenditure on R & D as a percentage of GDP V. Education expenditure as a percentage of total govt. recurrent expenditure. VI. Expenditure on teacher training as a percentage of all levels	-	-
7.5	-	Teaching Staff ( Public & Private Schools)	-	-
7.5.1	*	Pupil- teacher ratios by education level - Primary - Secondary - Tertiary	-	-
7.5.2	-	ratio of trained to untrained teachers by education level - Primary - Secondary	-	-
8	-	HEALTH	-	-
8.1	-	Child Survival and Development	-	-
8.1.1	*	Under one year olds fully immunized against the ff. Diseases. a. Tuberculosis (BCG) b. MMR c. Diphtheria (DPT) d. OPV-3 (Polio)	1991	100
8.1.2	*	Infant Mortality: a- Neo-natal mortality b- Perinatal mortality	-	-
8.1.3	*	Under - 5 Mortality Rate ( Childhood Mortality Rate per 1,000 children under 5 yrs) by sex	-	-
8.1.4		Under - 5 Mortality Rate Ranking by countries within the OCES region) by sex.	-	-
8.1.5	*	Pregnant Women aged 15-49 years with anemia (%)	-	-
8.1.6	*	Births attended by trained health personnel (%)	-	-
8.1.7	*	Low Birth -weight infants (% of total live births)	-	-
8.1.8	*	Maternal mortality per 1,000 total deliveries	-	-
8.2	-	Health Profile	-	-
8.2.1	*	Life Expectancy at Birth Male } - 1995 Female } - 1995	-	73 72.9 74.8
8.2.2	*	Life Expectancy at Ages 20 years by sex.	-	-
8.2.3	*	Incidence & prevalence of AIDS cases ( per 1,000 population)	-	-
8.2.4	*	Cigarette Consumption per Adult (1970 -72 = 100).	-	--
8.2.5	*	Doctors per 1,000 population	-	-
8.2.6	*	Nurses per 1,000 population	-	-
8.2.7	*	Dentists per 1,000 population	-	-
8.2.8	-	Laboratory technologists per	-	-
8.2.9	-	Other allied health person	-	-
8.2.10	*	Hospital Beds compliment per 1,000 population	-	-
8.2.11	*	Health centres per 1,000 population	-	-
8.2.12	*	Death rates by selected causes by sex and age Incidence of selected diseases ( malaria, dengue, TB, AIDS, cancer, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, STDs, HIV per 1000	-	-
8.2.13	*	population)	-	-
8.2.14	-	Incidence and prevalence of mental illness per 1000 population	-	-
8.2.15	*	Incidence of vaccine preventable disease	-	-
8.3	-	Nutrition	-	-
-	-	Nutritional Status of Children:	-	-
8.3.1	-	Percentage o under - 5 (1990 -97 suffering from: I. Underweight II. Anemia IV. Obesity	-	-
8.3.2	-	Average daily intake of selected food groups by age and sex	-	-
8.3.3	-	Percentage of population with selected problems: (obesity, high cholesterol, smoking. alcoholism (local and tourist population)	-	-
8.4	-	Access to Water and Sanitation Facilities.	-	-
8.4.1	$+;Ko	Percent of Population with access to: a. Safe Water - Total - Urban - Rural	-	-
-	-	b. Health Services	-	-
-	-	c. Sanitation -Total - Urban - Rural	-	-
9	-	ENVIRONMENT	-	-
9.1	-	Institutional	-	-
9.1.1	-	% development proposals on which EIA undertaken	-	-
9.1.2	-	% of GDP allocated to environmental management/conservation	-	-
9.1.3	-	Number of environmental NGO's operational	-	-
9.1.4	-	% expenditure of (i) Government (ii) media on public awareness programmes	-	-
9.1.5	-	Use of natural resource accounting in national planning (Yes/No)	-	-
9.2	-	International Treaties and Conventions	-	-
9.2.1	-	Have the following treaties been ratified? (Yes/No) (i) Basel Convention (ii) Vienna Convention and its Montreal protocol (iii) United Nations convention on the law of the sea	-	-
9.3	-	Land Use	-	-
9.3.1	-	Protected areas as a % of total land use	-	-
9.3.2	-	% forest/woodland conversion to (i) agriculture (ii) urbanisation	-	-
9.3.3	-	approximately % agriculture areas where topsoil loss through erosion is considered a serious concern	-	-
9.3.4	-	Use of the following in metric tonnes of active ingredients per 10km square of agricultural land:- (i) pesticide (ii) fertiliser	-	-
9.4	-	Water	-	-
9.4.1	-	Annual fresh water withdrawals as % of water resources	-	-
9.4.2	-	Average annual load of nitrogen and phosphorus from land based sources of pollution into coastal waters	-	-
9.4.3	-	Number of areas above international standards for fecal coliforms/BOD (if testing not carried out this be indicted)	-	-
9.5	-	Coastal/Marine systems and fisheries	-	-
9.5.1	-	% loss of mangrove/coral reefs/seagrass beds	-	-
9.5.2	-	% loss of beach area/erosion	-	-
9.5.3	--	Annual catch per trip by species group (tonnes/trip) - 5 year time series	-	-
9.6	-	Biodiversity	-	-
9.6.1	-	Number of threatened endangered wildlife and plant species	-	-
9.6.2	-	Has the convention on biological diversity been ratified (Yes/No)	-	-
9.6.3	-	Are programmes being implemented to address this convention (Yes/No)	-	-
9.7	-	Waste	-	-
9.7.1	-	Production of waste in tonnes per capita/per annum	-	-
9.7.2	-	Volume of waste collected and disposed by the waste management authority	-	-
9.7.3	-	% population serve by national waste collection system	-	-
9.7.4	-	% of waste stream recycled	-	-
9.8	-	Awareness	-	-
9.8.1	-	Number of environmental education programmes implemented for communities	-	-
9.8.2	-	Number of environmental educational programmes at primary schools	-	-
9.9	-	Air Quality	-	-
9.9.1	-	CO² emissions (per capita/metric tonnes)	-	-
10	-	ECONOMIC/FINANCIAL	-	-
10.1	*	Financial Inflows and Outflows:	-	-
10.1.1	*	Total External Debts:- (US$)	1998	33.90M
-	-	I. Domestic II. Foreign (a) Commercial (b) bilateral/multi-lateral	-	-
10.1.2	-	Matured debt as a percentage of total debt I. less than one year II. 1-2 yrs III. 2-5 yrs IV. >5 yrs V. over next 3 yrs VI. over next 5 yrs	-	-
10.1.3	*	Debt Service Ratio as % of Export of goods and services	1998	10.03
10.1.4	*	total net Official Development Assistance (ODA) received (net disbursement) -1. Grants -2. Loans (soft) v. over next 3 yrs.	-	-
-	-	I. Cost (US$ million)	1998	5.86
-	-	II. As % of 1995 GDP	1998	0.96
-	-	III. Per Capita	1998	$300.79
10.1.5	*	Net foreign direct investment (as % of GNP). I. Short Term II. Long Term	-	-
10.1.6	*	Trade as % of GDP 1993-95	1998	27
10.1.7	*	Export-import ratio (exports as % of imports) 1995	1998	3.92
10.1.8	-	External trade as a percentage of GDP	-	-
10.1.9	*	Terms of Trade(1987=100) 1995	1998	1.26
10.1.10	*	Current account balance before official transfers as a percentage of GDP (US$) m.	1998	64.84
10.1.11	-	Net Remittances from Abroad as a percentage of GDP	-	-
10.2	-	National Income Accounts	-	-
10.2.1	-	Real GDP per Capita (US): (Adjusted real GDP per capita (PPP$)	-	31,414
10.2.2	*	GDP (US$) (at constant 1990 prices) (at current factor cost)	-	132.1 187
10.2.3	*	Agriculture (as % of GDP)	1997	0.61
10.2.4	*	Industry (as % of GDP)	-	2.47
10.2.5	*	Services (as % of GDP)	1997	13.03
10.2.6	*	Consumption - I Private (as % of GDP) ii. Govt (as % of GDP)	-	-
10.2.7	*	Gross Domestic Investment - private (as a percentage of GDP) - Government (as a percentage of GDP)	1997	18.4
10.2.8	*	Gross Domestic Savings (as % of GDP)	1997	18.5
10.2.9	*	Tax Revenue (as % of GDP)	1997	8.23
10.2.10	*	Central Government Expenditures (as % of GDP)	1997	21.36
10.2.11	*	Export (as % of GDP)	1997	7.06
10.2.12	*	Imports (as % of GDP)	1997	26.91
10.2.13	-	Foreign Exchange earnings by sector	-	-
10.2.14	-	Social Security coverage-percentage of population covered by social security I. percentage of population receiving welfare payments II. percentage of population covered by social security	-	-
10.2.15	-	Total revenue as a percentage of GDP	-	-
10.2.16	-	Central government savings as a percentage of GDP	-	-
10.2.17	-	Tourism as a percentage of GDP	-	-
10.3	-	Trends in Economic Performance	-	-+
10.3.2	*	GDP annual growth rate (%)	1998	31,414
10.3.3	*	GDP per capita annual growth rate 1965-80 (%) 1991-1998	1998 1998	6.81 8
10.3.4	*	Average annual rate of inflation %	1998	4.52
10.3.5	*	Exports as % of GDP (% annual growth rate)	1998	0.96
10.3.6	*	Tax revenue as % of GDP (% annual growth rate).	1998	-0.91
10.3.7	*	Overall budget surplus /deficit (as % of GDP)	1998	10.6
11	-	PUBLIC SAFETY, CRIME AND JUSTICE	-	-
11.1	-	Prison population as a percentage of total adult population by sex.	-	-
11.2	-	Juvenile crime rates as percentage of youth population (less than 18yrs	-	-
11.3	-	Percentage of Deaths by ( fire, accidents, criminal activity)	-	-
11.4	-	Number of convictions as percentage of crimes reported by type.	-	-
11.5	-	Drug Abuse Cases Reported by Type, Sex and Age (15,15-19,20-29,30+) years per 1,000	-	-
11.6	-	Drug related Crimes per (1,000 population)	-	-
11.7	-	Young Adult Prisoners (as % of total prisoners)	-	-
11.8	-	Reported Adult Rapes per 1,000	-	-
11.9	-	Injuries and deaths from road accidents per 1,000 people.	-	-
11.10	-	Suicide (per 1,000 people ) by age and sex.	-	-

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