Montserrat

Montserrat

Official name	Montserrat
Name in local language	Montserrat (en)
Continent	Americas
Subcontinent	Caribbean
Population (ranking: 243^e)	5,343 inhabitants (2019)
Population growth	0.48 % / year
Area	103 km²
Density	51.87 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 232^e)	0.063 billions $USD (2014)
GDP/capita (ranking)	12,678 $USD (2014)
GDP growth	3.50 % / year (2014)
Life expectancy (ranking)	74.40 years (2016)
Birth rate	11.00 ‰ (2016)
Fertility rate	1.30 children / woman (2016)
Death rate (ranking)	6.30 ‰ (2016)
Infant mortality rate (ranking)	0.00 ‰ (2018)
Literacy rate	99.70 % (2015)
Official languages	English
Currency	East Caribbean dollar ($ XCD)
HDI (ranking: 73^e)	0.821 / 1 (2008)
EPI (ranking)	0.00 (2018)
Government	British Overseas Territory
Head of State	Queen Elizabeth II ; Governor Andrew Pearce
National Day	Second Saturday of June (birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, 1926)
ISO Codes	MS, MSR
Demonym	Montserratian
Tourists (ranking)	8,000 people (2017)

Montserrat is a small island in the Caribbean, a United Kingdom dependency, and a member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). It is located north of the French island of Guadeloupe, west of Antigua, and south of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Its capital and the entire southern area of the island were abandoned after being destroyed in 1997 by volcanic eruptions. About 8,000 of the island’s 12,000 inhabitants fled to Antigua and the United Kingdom. Since then, some have returned on the spot, in the northern part of the island, the only habitable zone, where about 1220 people were able to stay after the forced evacuation to the south.