younger workers.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$1 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: NA%

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$6,000 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1992)

Labor force: 58,800 (1997)

Labor force--by occupation: services, government, and commerce
60.6%, industry 21.2%, agriculture 18.2% (1980)

Unemployment rate: 25.7% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $191 million
expenditures: $332 million, including capital expenditures of $88
million (1996)

Industries: construction, shrimp processing, forestry products,
rum, gold mining

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: 425 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 425 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: sugar, rice, corn, manioc (tapioca), cocoa,
vegetables, bananas; cattle, pigs, poultry

Exports: $148 million (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: shrimp, timber, gold, rum, rosewood essence,
clothing

Exports--partners: France 60%, EU 7% (1994)

Imports: $600 million (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: food (grains, processed meat), machinery and
transport equipment, fuels and chemicals

Imports--partners: France 62%, Germany 4%, Belgium-Luxembourg 4%,
US 2% (1994)

Debt--external: $1.2 billion (1988)

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1--5.65 (January 1999),
5.8995 (1998), 5.8367 (1997), 5.1155 (1996), 4.9915 (1995), 5.5520
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 31,000 (1990 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: fair open wire and microwave radio relay system
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 7, shortwave 0

Radios: 79,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (in addition, there are eight
low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 22,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km (1995)

Highways:
total: 1,817 km (nation