Travel & technology
Electric power
- Plug shape
- Voltage
- 240V, 50Hz
Phone dialing
- Code to call Saint Lucia
- +1.758
What every visitor should know about Saint Lucia:
- Money
- The currency is the East Caribbean dollar (ECD).
- Crime
- CrimeSafe Travel Score™: 3.5 out of 5 (Safe)
Areas of concern:
- Pick-pocketing / bag-snatching
- Armed robbery is rare but occurs
- Capital
- Castries
- Tap water
- Safe in cities, but bottled water is advisable in rural areas.
Saint Lucia facts and figures:
People
- Population
- 160,267
- Language
- English (official), French patois
- Ethnicity
- Black 82.5%, mixed 11.9%, East Indian 2.4%, other or unspecified 3.1%
Economy
- GDP
- US$11,300 (per capita)