2.0% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $470 million; expenditures $322 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (FY90)

_#_Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1988);

commodities--refined petroleum products;

partners--US, Puerto Rico

_#_Imports: $3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1988);

commodities--crude oil, foodstuffs, consumer goods, building
materials;

partners--US, Puerto Rico

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 12%

_#_Electricity: 358,000 kW capacity; 532 million kWh produced,
5,360 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: tourism, petroleum refining, watch assembly, rum
distilling, construction, pharmaceuticals, textiles, electronics

_#_Agriculture: truck gardens, food crops (small scale), fruit,
sorghum, Senepol cattle

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $34.5 million

_#_Currency: US currency is used

_#_Exchange rates: US currency is used

_#_Fiscal year: 1 October-30 September

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 856 km total

_#_Ports: Saint Croix--Christiansted, Frederiksted;
Saint Thomas--Long Bay, Crown Bay, Red Hook; Saint John--Cruz Bay

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways
1,220-2,439 m; international airports on Saint Thomas and Saint Croix

_#_Telecommunications: 44,280 telephones; stations--4 AM, 6 FM, 3 TV;
modern system using fiber-optic cable, submarine cable, microwave radio,
and satellite facilities; 90,000 radios; 56,000 TVs

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
_%_
_@_Wake Island
(territory of the US)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 6.5 km2; land area: 6.5 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 11 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 19.3 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claimed by the Republic of the Marshall Islands

_#_Climate: tropical

_#_Terrain: atoll of three coral islands built up on an underwater
volcano; central lagoon is former crater, islands are part of the rim;
average elevation less than four meters

_#_Natural resources: none

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: subject to occasional typhoons

_#_Note: