puts per
capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$1.939 billion (2004 est.)

GDP (official exchange rate):
NA

GDP - real growth rate:
0.9% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):
$43,800 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 3.2%
services: 95.4% (1994 est.)

Labor force:
23,450 (2004)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 12.6%
services: 86% (1995)

Unemployment rate:
4.4% (2004)

Population below poverty line:
NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.4% (2004)

Budget:
revenues: $423.8 million
expenditures: $392.6 million; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2004)

Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruit; livestock; turtle farming

Industries:
tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction
materials, furniture

Industrial production growth rate:
NA%

Electricity - production:
400 million kWh (2004)

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

Electricity - consumption:
372 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004)

Oil - consumption:
2,600 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:
$2.52 million (2004)

Exports - commodities:
turtle products, manufactured consumer goods

Exports - partners:
mostly US (2004)

Imports:
$866.9 million (2004)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods

Imports - partners:
US, Netherlands Antilles, Japan (2004)

Debt - external:
$70 million (1996)

Economic aid - recipient:
$390,000 (2004)

Currency (code):
Caymanian dollar (KYD)

Currency code:
KYD

Exchange rates:
Caymanian dollars per US dollar - 0.82 (29 October 2001), 0.83 (3
November 1995), 0.85 (22 November 1993)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Cayman Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:
38,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
17,000 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: reasonably good