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

Unemployment rate:
6.9% (2001 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $918.5 million
expenditures: $956.5 million, including capital expenditures of
$106.7 million (FY99/00)

Agriculture - products:
citrus, vegetables; poultry

Industries:
tourism, banking, e-commerce, cement, oil refining and
transshipment, salt, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded
steel pipe

Industrial production growth rate:
NA (2002 est.)

Electricity - production:
1.56 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
1.451 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

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

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Exports:
$617 million (2002 est.)

Exports - commodities:
fish and crawfish; rum, salt, chemicals; fruit and vegetables

Exports - partners:
US 35%, Spain 9.6%, Germany 7.8%, France 7.6%, Poland 5.3%,
Switzerland 4.8%, Peru 4.2%, Paraguay 4.2% (2003)

Imports:
$1.614 billion (2002 est.)

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

Imports - partners:
US 20.8%, South Korea 17.4%, Italy 11.4%, France 9.1%, Brazil 7.5%,
Japan 5.6%, Venezuela 5.3% (2003)

Debt - external:
$308.5 million (2002)

Economic aid - recipient:
$9.8 million (1995)

Currency:
Bahamian dollar (BSD)

Currency code:
BSD

Exchange rates:
Bahamian dollars per US dollar - 1 (2003), 1 (2002), 1 (2001), 1
(2000), 1 (1999)

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, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2004)

Radios:
215,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (2004)

Televisions:
67,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.bs

Internet hosts:
302 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
19 (2000)

Internet users:
8