power parity-$23,800 (1996 est.)
GDP-composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 3.2%
services: 95.4% (1994 est.)
Inflation rate-consumer price index: 2.1% (1996 est.)
Labor force:
total: 8,061
by occupation: service workers 18.7%, clerical 18.6%, construction
12.5%, finance and investment 6.7%, directors and business managers
5.9% (1979)
Unemployment rate: 7% (1992)
Budget:
revenues: $141.5 million
expenditures: $160.7 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1991)
Industries: tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction,
construction materials, furniture
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity-capacity: 75,000 kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 230 million kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 6,929 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: vegetables, fruit; livestock; turtle farming
Exports:
total value: $3.4 million (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: turtle products, manufactured consumer goods
partners: mostly US
Imports:
total value: $333 million (c.i.f., 1995 est.)
commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods
partners: US, Trinidad and Tobago, UK, Netherlands Antilles, Japan
Debt-external: $NA
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 Caymanian dollar (CI$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Caymanian dollars (CI$) per US$1-0.83 (3 November
1995), 0.85 (22 November 1993)
Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
Communications
Telephones: 21,584 (1993 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: 1 submarine coaxial cable; satellite earth station-1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0
Radios: 28,200 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 1 (1995)
Televisions: 6,000 (1992 est.)
@Cayman Islands:Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 406 km
paved: 304 km
unpaved: 102 km
Ports and harbors: Cayman Brac, George Town
Merchant marine:
total: 54 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 751,113 GRT/1,139,958 DWT
ships by type: bulk 4, cargo 8, chemical tanker 4, container 5, oil
tanker 6, refrigerated cargo 18, roll-on/roll-off cargo 7, specialized
tanker 1, vehicle carrier 1
note: a flag of convenience registry; includes ships from 10
countries: Greece 11, US 8, UK 5, Cyprus 1, Finland 1, India 1, Japan
1, Norway 1, Sweden 1, and Switzerland 1 (1997 est.)
Airports: 3 (1997 est.)
Airports-with paved runways:
total: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (1997 est.)
Airports-with
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