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--$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
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