与大多数拉美国家的经济处于严重的危机时期不同,特立尼达和多巴哥的经济发展速度仍然保持了较高的水平。按不变价格计算,国内生产总值的增长率1981年为6%,1980年为7.3%。经济发展速度所以有所放慢,是由于国家的主要经济部门——石油工业减产和世界 Unlike the crisis-prone crisis in most Latin American countries, the rate of economic growth in Trinidad and Tobago has remained at a relatively high level. At constant prices, the growth rate of gross domestic product was 6% in 1981 and 7.3% in 1980. The pace of economic growth has slowed somewhat as a result of the country’s major economic sectors, the cut in the oil industry and the world