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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
12.8% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $3.825 billion
expenditures: $3.262 billion, including capital expenditures of $700
million (2004 est.)

Public debt:
63.8% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
fruit, vegetables; poultry, dairy products; shrimp, fish

Industries:
petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, iron
pelletization, fertilizers, offshore banking, ship repairing; tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
2% (2000 est.)

Electricity - production:
6.86 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
6.379 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
44,000 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - consumption:
40,000 bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
126 million bbl (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
32.7 billion cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
32.7 billion cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2002 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
46 billion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$586.1 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$8.205 billion (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles

Exports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 3%, US 2.9%, UAE 2.2% (2004)

Imports:
$5.87 billion (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
crude oil, machinery, chemicals

Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 32.4%, Japan 7.3%, Germany 6.1%, US 5.6%, UK 5.4%,
France 4.8% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.141 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$6.215 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$150 million; note - $50 million annually since 1992 from each of
Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Kuwait (2002)

Currency (code):
Bahraini dinar (BHD)

Currency code:
BHD

Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars per US dollar - 0.376 (2004), 0.376 (2003), 0.376
(2002), 0.376 (2001), 0.376 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Bahrain

Telephones - main lines in use:
185,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
443,100 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessm