--$34.7 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 3.1% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$9,000 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.7% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 1.3 million (1996)

Labor force--by occupation: government 19%, manufacturing 13%,
trade 17%, construction 5%, other 32%, unemployed 14% (1996)

Unemployment rate: 13% (FY96/97 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $6.7 billion
expenditures: $9.6 billion (FY 1999/2000

Industries: pharmaceuticals, electronics, apparel, food products;
tourism

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1994 est.)

Electricity--production: 18.3 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 98.36%
hydro: 1.64%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 18.3 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: sugarcane, coffee, pineapples, plantains,
bananas; livestock products, chickens

Exports: $30.3 billion (f.o.b. 1998)

Exports--commodities: pharmaceuticals, electronics, apparel,
canned tuna, rum, beverage concentrates, medical equipment

Exports--partners: US 88% (1997 est.)

Imports: $21.8 billion (c.i.f. 1996)

Imports--commodities: chemicals, machinery and equipment,
clothing, food, fish, petroleum products

Imports--partners: US 62% (1997 est.)

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 US dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 1.389 million (1996 est.)

Telephone system: modern system, integrated with that of the US
by high-capacity submarine cable and Intelsat with high-speed data
capability
domestic: digital telephone system with about 1 million lines (1990
est.); cellular telephone service
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat; submarine cable
to US

Radio broadcast stations: AM 50, FM 63, shortwave 0
note: there were 118 radio stations in 1995

Radios: 2.6 million (1994 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 18 (in addition, there are three
stations of the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) (1997)

Televisions: 973,000 (199