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rity - $3.2 billion (2000 est.) GDP - real growth rate: NA% GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $21,000 (2000 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: 15% (1993) services: NA% Population below poverty line: 23% (2001 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0% (1999 est.) Labor force: 60,000 (2000 est.) Labor force - by occupation: federal and territorial government 26%, private 74% (trade 24%, other services 40%, industry 10%) (2000 est.) Unemployment rate: 15% (2000 est.) Budget: revenues: $420 million expenditures: $431 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.) Industries: US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity - production: 825 million kWh (2000) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0% Electricity - consumption: 767.25 million kWh (2000) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000) Agriculture - products: fruits, copra, vegetables; eggs, pork, poultry, beef Exports: $75.7 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.) Exports - commodities: mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products; construction materials, fish, food and beverage products Exports - partners: US 25% Imports: $203 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.) Imports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods Imports - partners: US 23%, Japan 19% Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: Guam receives large transfer payments from the US Federal Treasury ($143 million in 1997) into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam Currency: US dollar (USD) Currency code: USD Exchange rates: the US dollar is used Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September Communications Guam Telephones - main lines in use: 84,134 (1998) Telephones - mobile cellular: 55,000 (1998) Telephone system: general assessment: modern system, integrated with US facilities for direct dialing, including free use of 800 numbers domes
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