coastline on Caribbean Sea *Montserrat, People Population: 3,175,050 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: -18% (1991 est.) National product per capita: $18,000 (1992) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% (1992 est.) National product real growth rate: 3.8% (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $475 million (1991 est.) Exports: $11.6 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: cars and trucks, semifinished manufactured goods, transportation equipment, crude oil, liquefied petroleum gas, diamonds, coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums); main food crops - millet, sorghum, root crops; fish catch about 160,000 metric tons ranks India among
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