culture 5%, industry 5%, tourism 50%, other services 40% (1999
est.)

Unemployment rate:
10.2% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
NA

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: 27% (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.2% (year ending September 2004)

Budget:
revenues: $1 billion
expenditures: $1 billion, including capital expenditures of $106.7
million (FY03/04)

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:
1.716 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.596 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
23,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
transhipments of 29,000 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
NA

Exports:
$636 million (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals; fruit
and vegetables

Exports - partners:
US 40.2%, Poland 13.3%, Spain 11.6%, Germany 5.9%, France 4.3%
(2004)

Imports:
$1.63 billion (2003)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, chemicals, mineral
fuels; food and live animals

Imports - partners:
US 22.4%, South Korea 18.9%, Brazil 9.2%, Japan 7.9%, Italy 7.8%,
Venezuela 6.6% (2004)

Debt - external:
$308.5 million (2002)

Economic aid - recipient:
$9.8 million (1995)

Currency (code):
Bahamian dollar (BSD)

Currency code:
BSD

Exchange rates:
Bahamian dollars per US dollar - 1 (2004), 1 (2003), 1 (2002), 1
(2001), 1 (2000)

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Bahamas, The

Telephones - main lines in use:
131,700 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
121,800 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: modern facilities
domestic: totally automatic system; highly developed
international: country code - 1-242; tropospheric scatter and
submarine cable to Florida; 3 coaxial submarine cables; satellite
earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (1997)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3