% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate:
10.4% (2003)

Budget:
revenues: $2.663 billion
expenditures: $2.51 billion, including capital expenditures of
$117.3 million (2003)

Public debt:
55.9% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
cocoa, sugarcane, rice, citrus, coffee, vegetables; poultry

Industries:
petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing, cement, beverage,
cotton textiles

Industrial production growth rate:
5.7% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
5.315 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
4.943 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
136,200 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
24,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
990 million bbl (1 January 2004)

Natural gas - production:
25 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
13.76 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
11.79 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
589 billion cu m (1 January 2004)

Current account balance:
$954 million (2003)

Exports:
$4.9 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, steel products,
fertilizer, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus, flowers

Exports - partners:
US 63.5%, Jamaica 5.6%, France 3.2% (2003)

Imports:
$3.917 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, live
animals

Imports - partners:
US 31.7%, Venezuela 13.6%, Brazil 7.3%, Germany 6.6%, UK 5.1%,
Japan 4.3% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$2.477 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$2.608 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$24 million (1999 est.)

Currency:
Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)

Currency code:
TTD

Exchange rates:
Trinidad and Tobago dollars per US dollar - 6.2929 (2003), 6.2487
(2002), 6.2332 (2001), 6.2998 (2000), 6.2989 (1999)

Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September

Communications Trinidad and Tobago

Telephones - main lines in use:
325,100 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
361,900 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: excellent international service; good local
service
domestic: NA
international: country code