sumption by percentage share:

lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Budget:

revenues: $507.9 million
expenditures: $577.9 million (2005 est.)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Public debt:

46.3% of GDP (2005)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

3.4% (2005)

Central bank discount rate:

5% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:

11.01% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:

$640.9 million (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money:

$792.9 million (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit:

$1.348 billion (31 December 2007)

Agriculture - products:

aloes; livestock; fish

Industries:

tourism, transshipment facilities, oil refining

Industrial production growth rate:

NA%

Electricity - production:

800 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

744 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

2,356 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

7,102 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

233,300 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

238,200 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006)

Exports:

$124 million f.o.b.; note - includes oil reexports (2006)

Exports - commodities:

live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery
and electrical equipment, transport equipment

Exports - partners:

Panama 29.7%, Colombia 17%, Netherlands Antilles 13.2%, US 11.3%,
Venezuela 10.9%, Netherlands 9.2% (2007)

Imports:

$1.054 billion f.o.b. (2006)

Imports - commodities:

machinery and electrical equipment, crude oil for refining and
reexport, chemicals; foodstuffs

Imports - partners:

US 54.6%, Netherlands 12%, UK 4.7% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$11.3 million (2004)

Debt - external:

$478.6 million (2005 est.)

Currency (code):

Aruban guilder/florin (AWG)

Currency code:

AWG

Exchange rates:

Aruban guilders/florins (AWG) per US dollar - NA (2007), 1.79
(2006),