y occupation:
agriculture: 22%
industry: 18%
services: 60% (1995)

Unemployment rate:
NEGL% (2003 est.)

Population below poverty line:
21% (2004)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6% (2005 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $508 million (including foreign grants)
expenditures: $671 million (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coconuts, corn, sweet potatoes; fish

Industries:
fish processing, tourism, shipping, boat building, coconut
processing, garments, woven mats, rope, handicrafts, coral and sand
mining

Industrial production growth rate:
-0.9% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
149.9 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
139.4 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
7,200 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Exports:
$123 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
fish

Exports - partners:
Japan 22.8%, Thailand 22.7%, Sri Lanka 16.4%, UK 12.6%, Singapore
5.8%, Germany 4.8%, France 4.3% (2005)

Imports:
$567 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, ships, foodstuffs, clothing, intermediate and
capital goods

Imports - partners:
Singapore 24.1%, UAE 15.7%, India 11.3%, Malaysia 7.2%, Sri Lanka
5.7%, UK 4.5% (2005)

Debt - external:
$304 million (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$27.9 million (2004)

Currency (code):
rufiyaa (MVR)

Currency code:
MVR

Exchange rates:
rufiyaa per US dollar - 12.8 (2006), 12.8 (2005), 12.8 (2004), 12.8
(2003), 12.8 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Maldives

Telephones - main lines in use:
32,181 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
271,053 (2006)

Telephone system:
general assessment: Telephone services have improved; each island
now has at least one public telephone, and there are mobile cellular
networks with expanding subscribership
domestic: interatoll communication through microwave links; all
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