Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Netherlands Antilles local long form: none local short form: Nederlandse Antillen former: Curacao and Dependencies

Capital City: Willemstad (on Curacao)

Population: 221,736 (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $16,000 (2004 est.)

Currency: Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)

Languages: Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census)

Total Area: total: 960 sq km land: 960 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin) more than five times the size of Washington, DC

Region: North America

Industries: tourism (Curacao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)

Agriculture: aloes, sorghum, peanuts, vegetables, tropical fruit

Resources: phosphates (Curacao only), salt (Bonaire only)

Labor Force: 83,600 (2005)
agriculture: 1% industry: 20% services: 79% (2005 est.)

Exports: $2.076 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
petroleum products

Imports: $4.383 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
crude petroleum, food, manufactures

Overview: Tourism, petroleum refining, and offshore finance are the mainstays of this small economy, which is closely tied to the outside world. Although GDP has declined or grown slightly in each of the past eight years, the islands enjoy a high per capita income and a well-developed infrastructure compared with other countries in the region. Almost all consumer and capital goods are imported, the US and Mexico being the major suppliers. Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the development of agriculture. Budgetary problems hamper reform of the health and pension systems of an aging population.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $1,742,803 in goods to Netherlands Antilles. This ranks Netherlands Antilles 74^th among the 232 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Netherlands Antilles decreased from the previous year by $10,306 a change of -0.59%. State exports to Netherlands Antilles have increased over the last 5 years by $1,213,062 a change of 228.99%. Missouri exports account for .01%. of all 2007 US exports to Netherlands Antilles.