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est.) GDP - real growth rate: NA% GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $19,000 (1996 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services : NA% Inflation rate - consumer price index: 4% (1992 est.) Labor force: total : 46,930 (1990) by occupation: federal and territorial government 40%, private 60% (trade 18%, services 15.6%, construction 13.8%, other 12.6%) (1990) Unemployment rate: 2% (1992 est.) Budget: revenues : $525 million expenditures: $395 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991) Industries: US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - capacity: 302,000 kW (1993) Electricity - production: 750 million kWh (1994) Electricity - consumption per capita: 4,566 kWh (1995 est.) Agriculture - products: fruits, copra, vegetables; eggs, pork, poultry, beef Exports: total value : $34 million (f.o.b., 1984) commodities: mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products, construction materials, fish, food and beverage products partners: US 25%, former Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 63%, other 12% Imports: total value: $493 million (c.i.f., 1984) commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods partners: US 23%, Japan 19%, other 58% Debt - external: $NA Economic aid: recipient: although Guam receives no foreign aid, it does receive large transfer payments from the general revenues of the US Federal Treasury into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guamanian Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: US currency is used Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September @Guam:Communications Telephones: 74,317 (March 1997) Telephone system: domestic: NA international : satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); submarine cables to US and Japan Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 0 Radios: NA Television broadcast stations: 3 Televisions: 75,000 (1993 est.) @Guam:Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 674 km (all-weather roads) paved : NA km unpaved: NA km Ports and harbors: Apra Harbor Me
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