h the US Virgin Islands, the British
Virgin Islands has used the dollar as its currency since 1959.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$183 million (1997 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 4.7% (1997)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$10,000 (1997 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry: 1.4%
services: 97.6% (1991-95 average)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.5% (1997)

Labor force: 4,911 (1980)

Labor force--by occupation: tourism NA%

Unemployment rate: 3% (1995)

Budget:
revenues: $121.5 million
expenditures: $115.5 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997)

Industries: tourism, light industry, construction, rum, concrete
block, offshore financial center

Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1985)

Electricity--production: 42 million kWh (1996)

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

Electricity--consumption: 42 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: fruits, vegetables; livestock, poultry; fish

Exports: $23.9 million (1996)

Exports--commodities: rum, fresh fish, fruits, animals; gravel,
sand

Exports--partners: Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, US

Imports: $121.5 million (1996)

Imports--commodities: building materials, automobiles, foodstuffs,
machinery

Imports--partners: Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, US

Debt--external: $34.8 million (1996)

Economic aid--recipient: $2.6 million (1995)

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 6,291 (1990 est.)

Telephone system: worldwide telephone service
domestic: NA
international: submarine cable to Bermuda

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios: 9,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (in addition, there is one cable
company) (1997)

Televisions: 4,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 113 km (1995 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Ports and harbors: Road Town

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
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