revenues: $646 million
expenditures: $629 million, including capital expenditures of $85
million (1999)
Agriculture - products:
forage crops, garden and greenhouse vegetables; sheep, reindeer;
fish
Industries:
fish processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut), handicrafts,
hides and skins, small shipyards, mining
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
245 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
227.9 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
3,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Exports:
$388 million f.o.b. (2002)
Exports - commodities:
fish and fish products 94% (prawns 63%)
Exports - partners:
Denmark 64.7%, Japan 14.2%, China 4.4% (2003)
Imports:
$445 million c.i.f. (2002)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food,
petroleum products
Imports - partners:
Denmark 82.6%, Norway 7.5%, Sweden 3.5% (2003)
Debt - external:
$25 million (1999)
Economic aid - recipient:
$380 million subsidy from Denmark (1997)
Currency:
Danish krone (DKK) is the official legal tender.
Currency code:
DKK
Exchange rates:
Danish kroner per US dollar - 6.5877 (2003), 7.8947 (2002), 8.323
(2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Greenland
Telephones - main lines in use:
26,000 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
16,747 (2001)
Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate domestic and international service
provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally
digitalized in 1995
domestic: microwave radio relay and satellite
international: country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 12
Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
30,000 (1998 est.)
Television broadcast stations:
1 publicly-owned station, some local low-power stations, and three
AFRTS (US Air Force) stations (1997)
Televisions:
30,000 (1998 est.)
Internet country code:
.gl
Internet hosts:
2,642 (2004)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)
Internet users:
20,000 (2002)
Transportation Greenland
Highways:
total: NA (the
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