Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.3% (2004)

Budget:
revenues: $601 million
expenditures: $588 million; including capital expenditures of $98
million (2000 est.)

Agriculture - products:
potatoes, cauliflower, tomatoes; beef, dairy products

Industries:
tourism, banking and finance, dairy, electronics

Industrial production growth rate:
NA%

Electricity - consumption:
630.1 million kWh (2004 est.)

Electricity - imports:
NA kWh; note - electricity supplied by France

Exports:
$NA

Exports - commodities:
light industrial and electrical goods, foodstuffs, textiles

Exports - partners:
UK (2004)

Imports:
$NA

Imports - commodities:
machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, foodstuffs,
mineral fuels, chemicals

Imports - partners:
UK (2004)

Debt - external:
$NA

Economic aid - recipient:
$0

Currency (code):
British pound (GBP); note - there is also a Jersey pound

Currency code:
GBP

Exchange rates:
Jersey pounds per US dollar - 0.54413 (2006), 0.55 (2005), 0.5462
(2004), 0.6125 (2003), 0.6672 (2002), note, the Jersey pound is at
par with the British pound

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Jersey

Telephones - main lines in use:
73,900 (2001)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
83,900 (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: NA
international: 3 submarine cables

Radio broadcast stations:
AM NA, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
NA

Television broadcast stations:
2 (1997)

Televisions:
NA

Internet country code:
.je

Internet hosts:
1,240 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
NA

Internet users:
27,000 (2005)

Transportation Jersey

Airports:
1 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2006)

Roadways:
total: 577 km

Ports and terminals:
Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier

Military Jersey

Military - note:
defense is the responsibility of the UK

Transnational Issues Jersey

Disputes - international:
none

This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007

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@Jordan

Introduction Jordan

Background:
Following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire,
the UK received a mandate to govern much of the Middle East. Britain
separated out a semi-autonomous region