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PROFILE
  • Area: 180 sq. km (69 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 113,648 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 1.3% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 76.8 years (2016)
  • Languages: Papiamento (official) 69.4%, Spanish 13.7%, English (widely spoken) 7.1%, Dutch (official) 6.1%, Chinese 1.5%
  • Religions: Roman Catholic 75.3%, Protestant 4.9% (includes Methodist 0.9%, Adventist 0.9%, Anglican 0.4%, other Protestant 2.7%), Jehovah's Witness 1.7%, other 12%, none 5.5%, unspecified 0.5%
  • Government type: parliamentary democracy; part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Leaders: chief of state: King WILLEM-ALEXANDER of the Netherlands; head of government: Prime Minister Michiel "Mike" Godfried EMAN
  • Capital: Oranjestad
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $25,300 (2011 est.)
  • Exports: live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment
  • Imports: machinery and electrical equipment, refined oil for bunkering and reexport, chemicals; foodstuffs
  • Currency: Aruban guilder/florin (AWG)
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