Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale (French)
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Protocol member   Associate member
Commission	Castries
Working languages	English French
Type	Political and economic union
Membership	7 protocol  Antigua and Barbuda  Dominica  Grenada  Montserrat  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4 associate  Anguilla  British Virgin Islands  Guadeloupe  Martinique
Leaders
• Chairman	Ralph Gonsalves
• Director-General	Didacus Jules
Establishment
• Treaty of Basseterre	18 June 1981
• Revised Treaty of Basseterre	21 January 2011
Area
• Total	2,709 km2 (1,046 sq mi)
• Including Associate Members	5,910 km2 (2,280 sq mi)
Population
• 2017 estimate	615,724
• Including Associate Members	1,434,212
• Density	215.6/km2 (558.4/sq mi)
GDP (nominal)	2017 estimate
• Total	$6.7 billion $29.6 billion (Including Associate Members) [1]
• Per capita	$10,879 $20,622 (Including Associate Members) [1]
Currency	3 currencies East Caribbean Dollar (Protocol members and Anguilla) US Dollar (British Virgin Islands) Euro (Guadeloupe, Martinique)
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
Internet TLD	10 TLDs  .ai  .ag  .vg  .dm  .gd  .gp  .mq/.fr  .ms  .kn  .lc  .vc
Website www.oecs.org

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS; French: Organisation des États de la Caraïbe orientale, OECO) is an inter-governmental organisation dedicated to economic harmonisation and integration, protection of human and legal rights, and the encouragement of good governance between countries and territories in the Eastern Caribbean. It also performs the role of spreading responsibility and liability in the event of natural disaster.

The administrative body of the OECS is the Commission, which is based in Castries, the capital of Saint Lucia.

OECS operates an economic union within the larger CARICOM economic union. Eight members operate as a currency union - the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union, using the Eastern Caribbean dollar.