developed
alongside the traditional manufacturing of knitwear. All raw material
and energy requirements are imported, as well as a large share of
Jersey's food needs.
GDP: purchasing power parity - $NA
GDP - real growth rate: NA%
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $NA
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry : NA%
services: NA%
Inflation rate - consumer price index: NA%
Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $643.7 million
expenditures: $597.2 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)
Industries: tourism, banking and finance, dairy
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - capacity: 50,000 kW standby
note: electricity supplied by France
Electricity - production: NA kWh
note: electricity supplied by France
Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh (1992)
Agriculture - products: potatoes, cauliflowers, tomatoes; meat, dairy
products
Exports: $NA
commodities: light industrial and electrical goods, foodstuffs,
textiles
partners: UK
Imports: $NA
commodities: machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods,
foodstuffs, mineral fuels, chemicals
partners: UK
Debt - external: $NA
Economic aid: none
Currency: 1 Jersey pound (LJ) = 100 pence
Exchange rates: Jersey pounds (LJ) per US$1 - 0.6023 (January 1997),
0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995), 0.6529 (1994), 0.6658 (1993), 0.5664
(1992); the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Jersey:Communications
Telephones: 61,447 (1983 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international : 3 submarine cables
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
Radios: NA
Television broadcast stations: 1
Televisions: NA
@Jersey:Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved : NA km
Ports and harbors: Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier
Merchant marine: none
Airports: 1 (1996 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m : 1 (1996 est.)
Military
Military - note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
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JOHNSTON ATOLL
(territory of the US)
@Johnston Atoll:Geography
Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third
of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands
Geographic coordinates: 16
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