Aruba

  • Area: 180 square kilometers
  • Currency: Aruban Florin made up of 100 cents US$ 1 = 1.79 guilders (fixed)
  • Official language: Dutch and Papiamento
  • Population: 105,000
  • Head of State or Government: Evelyn Wever-Croes (Prime Minister)
  • GDP: US$ 2.702 Billion
  • GDP per capita: US$ 26, 005.4
  • GDP growth: 0.1%
  • Inflation: 2.5%

About Aruba

Aruba signed the Convention Establishing the ACS in December 1998, to be admitted as an Associate Member. It lies 25 kilometres off the coast of Venezuela and 68 kilometres to the west of Curaçao.

The capital is Oranjestad. Originally part of the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba achieved separate status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1986. There are some small industries, and there is an oil refinery, but tourism and financial services are the major economic activities.