aw material
and energy requirements are imported, as well as a large share of
Jersey's food needs.
National product: GDP $NA
National product real growth rate: 8% (1987 est.)
National product per capita: $NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8% (1988 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $308 million
expenditures: $284.4 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1985)
Exports: $NA
commodities: light industrial and electrical goods, foodstuffs,
textiles
partners: UK
Imports: $NA
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods,
foodstuffs, mineral fuels, chemicals
partners: UK
External debt: $NA
Industrial production: growth rate NA%
Electricity:
capacity: 50,000 kW standby
production: power supplied by France
consumption per capita: NA kWh (1992)
Industries: tourism, banking and finance, dairy
Agriculture: potatoes, cauliflowers, tomatoes; dairy and cattle
farming
Economic aid: none
Currency: 1 Jersey pound (#J) = 100 pence
Exchange rates: Jersey pounds (#J) per US$1 - 0.6250 (January 1995),
0.6529 (1994), 0.6658 (1993), 0.5664 (1992), 0.5652 (1991), 0.5603
(1990); the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Jersey:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways:
total: NA
paved: NA
unpaved: NA
Ports: Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier
Merchant marine: none
Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
@Jersey:Communications
Telephone system: 63,700 telephones
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 3 submarine cables
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA
@Jersey:Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
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JOHNSTON ATOLL
(territory of the US)
@Johnston Atoll:Geography
Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third
of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands
Map references: Oceania
Area:
total area: 2.8 sq km
land area: 2.8 sq km
comparative area: about 4.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 10 km
Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
International disputes: none
Climate: tropical, but generally d
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