GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$1,560 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 7.4%
industry: 36.5%
services: 56.1% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Labor force: 4.5 million economically active population (1996
est.)
note: state sector 76%, non-state sector 24% (1996 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: services and government 30%, industry
22%, agriculture 20%, commerce 11%, construction 10%, transportation
and communications 7% (June 1990)

Unemployment rate: 6.8% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $12.3 billion
expenditures: $13 billion , including capital expenditures of $NA
(1998 est.)

Industries: sugar, petroleum, food, tobacco, textiles, chemicals,
paper and wood products, metals (particularly nickel), cement,
fertilizers, consumer goods, agricultural machinery

Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1995 est.)

Electricity--production: 14.1 billion kWh (1997)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 98.96%
hydro: 1.04%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 14.1 billion kWh (1997)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: sugarcane, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice,
potatoes, beans; livestock

Exports: $1.4 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: sugar, nickel, tobacco, shellfish, medical
products, citrus, coffee

Exports--partners: Russia 27%, Canada 18%, Spain 8% (1998 est.)

Imports: $3 billion (c.i.f., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: petroleum, food, machinery, chemicals

Imports--partners: Spain 17%, France 9%, Canada 9% (1998 est.)

Debt--external: $10.1 billion (convertible currency, 1997);
another $20 billion owed to Russia (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $46 million (1997 est.)

Currency: 1 Cuban peso (Cu$) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Cuban pesos (Cu$) per US$1--1.0000
(nonconvertible, official rate, linked to the US dollar)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 229,000

Telephone system: among the world's least developed telephone
systems
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station--1 Intersputnik (Atlantic
Ocean region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 150, FM 5, shortwave 1

Radios: 2.14 million (1993 est.)

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