sumer prices): 3.7% (1996)

Labor force: 57,050 (1996)

Unemployment rate: 0.7% (1996)

Budget:
revenues: $666.9 million
expenditures: $618.5 million, including capital expenditures of
$128.4 million (1996 est.)

Industries: tourism, banking and finance, dairy

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: NA kWh

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: NA%
hydro: NA%
nuclear: NA%
other: NA%

Electricity--consumption: 467 million kWh (1995)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh

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

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

Exports: $NA

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

Exports--partners: UK

Imports: $NA

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

Imports--partners: UK

Debt--external: none

Economic aid--recipient: none

Currency: 1 Jersey pound (LJ) = 100 pence

Exchange rates: Jersey pounds (LJ) per US$1--0.6057 (January
1999), 0.6037 (1998), 0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995),
0.6529 (1994); the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 61,447 (1983 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: 3 submarine cables

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 577 km (1995)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Ports and harbors: Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military--note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

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@Johnston Atoll
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Geography

Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about
one-third of the way from Hawaii to the Marshall Islands

Geographic coordinates: 16 45 N, 169 30 W

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total: 2.8 sq km
land: 2.8 sq km
water: 0 sq km

Area--comparative: about 4.7 times the size of The Mall