Martiniquais Economy, Martinique Economy

Economy - overview: The economy is based on sugarcane, bananas, tourism, and light industry. Agriculture accounts for about 6% of GDP and the small industrial sector for 11%. Sugar production has declined, with most of the sugarcane now used for the production of rum. Banana exports are increasing, going mostly to France. The bulk of meat, vegetable, and grain requirements must be imported, contributing to a chronic trade deficit that requires large annual transfers of aid from France. Tourism, which employs more than 11,000 people, has become more important than agricultural exports as a source of foreign exchange.

GDP:

GDP - real growth rate: NA%

GDP - per capita: Purchasing power parity - $14,400 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector: Agriculture: 6% industry: 11% services: 83% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Distribution of family income - Gini index:

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

Labor force: 165,900 (1998)

Labor force - by occupation: Agriculture 10%, industry 17%, services 73% (1997)

Unemployment rate: 27.2% (1998)

Budget: Revenues: $900 million expenditures: $2.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $140 million (1996)

Industries: Construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar, tourism

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity - production: 1.178 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:

Electricity - consumption: 1.095 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption: 13,500 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports: NA

Oil - imports: NA

Oil - proved reserves:

Natural gas - production:

Natural gas - consumption:

Natural gas - exports:

Natural gas - imports:

Natural gas - proved reserves:

Agriculture - products: Pineapples, avocados, bananas, flowers, vegetables, sugarcane

Exports: $250 million f.o.b. (1997)

Exports - commodities: Refined petroleum products, bananas, rum, pineapples (2001 est.)

Exports - partners: France 45%, Guadeloupe 28% (2000)

Imports: $2 billion c.i.f. (1997)

Imports - commodities: Petroleum products, crude oil, foodstuffs, construction materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods

Imports - partners: France 62%, Venezuela 6%, Germany 4%, Italy 4%, US 3% (2000)

Debt - external: $180 million (1994)

Economic aid - recipient: NA; note - substantial annual aid from France (1998)

Currency:

Currency code:

Exchange rates: Euros per US dollar - 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.0854 (2000)

Fiscal year: Calendar year

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