Fish catch per year: 3100 tonnes

Oil production and reserves: 1544 b/d (reserves 7.3m barrels)

Estimated livestock resources: 41,300 sheep, 35,000 pigs, 3.43m chickens

Main mineral resources: Oil, natural gas

Barbados has few strategic resources. Oil extracted by Barbados is refined in Trinidad and Tobago and then returned for domestic use.

From "The Financial Times World Desk Reference" © Dorling Kindersley 2004