griculture: 1.4%
industry: 3.2%
services: 95.4% (1994 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (1997)

Labor force: 19,820 (1995)

Labor force--by occupation: service workers 18.7%, clerical 18.6%,
construction 12.5%, finance and investment 6.7%, directors and
business managers 5.9% (1979)

Unemployment rate: 5.1% (1996)

Budget:
revenues: $265.2 million
expenditures: $248.9 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997)

Industries: tourism, banking, insurance and finance,
construction, construction materials, furniture

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 290 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 290 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: vegetables, fruit; livestock, turtle farming

Exports: $2.65 million (1996)

Exports--commodities: turtle products, manufactured consumer goods

Exports--partners: mostly US

Imports: $379.4 million (1996)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods

Imports--partners: US, Trinidad and Tobago, UK, Netherlands
Antilles, Japan

Debt--external: $70 million (1996)

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 Caymanian dollar (CI$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Caymanian dollars (CI$) per US$1--0.83 (3 November
1995), 0.85 (22 November 1993)

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 21,584 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: 1 submarine coaxial cable; satellite earth station--1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4 (the four stations have a
total of six frequencies), shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios: 28,200 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: NA

Televisions: 6,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 406 km
paved: 304 km
unpaved: 102 km

Ports and harbors: Cayman Brac, George Town

Merchant marine:
total: 76 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,264,113 GRT/1,970,959
DWT
ships by type: bulk 13, cargo 10, chemical tanker 11, container 4,
liquefied gas tanker 1, oil tanker 7, refrigerated cargo 22,
roll-on/roll-off carg