Agriculture - products:
citrus, vegetables; poultry
Industries:
tourism, banking, cement, oil transshipment, salt, rum, aragonite,
pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
2.05 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
1.793 billion 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:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
26,830 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
transshipments of 38,740 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
69,780 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 est.)
Current account balance:
-$1.442 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$674 million (2006)
Exports - commodities:
mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit
and vegetables
Exports - partners:
US 20.4%, Singapore 15.5%, Spain 14.5%, Poland 14.3%, Germany 6.6%,
Guatemala 5.7%, Switzerland 5.2% (2007)
Imports:
$2.401 billion (2006)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, mineral
fuels; food and live animals
Imports - partners:
US 26.7%, South Korea 14.1%, Japan 13.5%, Italy 7.5%, Singapore
5.2%, Venezuela 4.5%, Spain 4.3% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$4.78 million (2004)
Debt - external:
$342.6 million (2004 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
Bahamian dollar (BSD)
Currency code:
BSD
Exchange rates:
Bahamian dollars (BSD) per US dollar - 1 (2007), 1 (2006), 1 (2005),
1 (2004), 1 (2003)
Communications
Bahamas, The
Telephones - main lines in use:
132,900 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
374,000 (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: modern facilities
domestic: totally automatic system; highly developed; the Bahamas
Domestic Submarine Network links 14 of the islands and is designed
to satisfy increasing demand for voice and broadband in
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