6,300 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: NEGL%
industry: 28%
services: 72%

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.5% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 1.856 million (1997 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: financial, business, and other
services 33.5%, manufacturing 25.6%, commerce 22.9%, construction
6.6%, other 11.4% (1994)

Unemployment rate: 5% (1999 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $16.3 billion
expenditures: $13.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY97/98 est.)

Industries: electronics, financial services, oil drilling
equipment, petroleum refining, rubber processing and rubber
products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade,
biotechnology

Industrial production growth rate: 3% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 28 billion kWh (1998)

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

Electricity--consumption: 28 billion kWh (1998)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1998)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1998)

Agriculture--products: rubber, copra, fruit, vegetables; poultry

Exports: $128 billion (1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: computer equipment, rubber and rubber
products, petroleum products, telecommunications equipment

Exports--partners: Malaysia 19%, US 18%, Hong Kong 9%, Japan 8%,
Thailand 6% (1995)

Imports: $133.9 billion (1997 est.)

Imports--commodities: aircraft, petroleum, chemicals, foodstuffs

Imports--partners: Japan 21%, Malaysia 15%, US 15%, Thailand 5%,
Taiwan 4%, South Korea 4% (1995)

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 Singapore dollar (S$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Singapore dollars (S$) per US$1--1.6781 (January
1999), 1.6736 (1998), 1.4848 (1997), 1.4100 (1996), 1.4174 (1995),
1.5274 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 1.4 million (1997 est.)

Telephone system: good domestic facilities; good international
service
domestic: NA
international: submarine cables to Malaysia (Sabah and Peninsular
Malaysia), Indonesia, and the Philippines; satellite earth
stations--2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean), and 1
Inmarsat (Pacific Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 13, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: NA

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