National product per capita: $3,050 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 26.7% (1994)

Unemployment rate: 15.7% (1992)

Budget:
revenues: $600 million
expenditures: $736 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY90/91 est.)

Exports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, rum
partners: US 47%, UK 11%, Canada 9%, Norway 7%; France 4% (1993)

Imports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, construction
materials, fuel, food, chemicals
partners: US 54%, Japan 4.0%, Mexico 6%, UK 4%, Venezuela 3% (1993)

External debt: $3.6 billion (1994 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 0.4% (1992); accounts for almost
30% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 730,000 kW
production: 2.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 988 kWh (1993)

Industries: bauxite mining, tourism, textiles, food processing, light
manufactures

Agriculture: accounts for about 7% of GDP, 22% of work force, and 17%
of exports; commercial crops - sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus,
potatoes, vegetables; livestock and livestock products include
poultry, goats, milk; not self-sufficient in grain, meat, and dairy
products

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine from Central and South
America to North America and Europe; illicit cultivation of cannabis;
government has an active cannabis eradication program

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.2 billion;
other countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1.6
billion

Currency: 1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars (J$) per US$1 - 33.195 (December
1994), 33.986 (1994), 24.949 (1993), 22.960 (1992), 12.116 (1991),
7.184 (1990)

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

@Jamaica:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 370 km
standard gauge: 370 km 1.435-m gauge

Highways:
total: 18,200 km
paved: 12,600 km
unpaved: gravel 3,200 km; improved earth 2,400 km

Pipelines: petroleum products 10 km

Ports: Alligator Pond, Discovery Bay, Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho
Rios, Port Antonio, Longs Wharf, Rocky Point

Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,931 GRT/10,545 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, oil tanker 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1

Airports:
total: 41
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runw