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<title>
Trinidad & Tobago--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Trinidad and Tobago
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Trinidad and Tobago's petroleum-based economy has
begun to emerge from a lengthy depression in the last few years.
The economy fell sharply through most of the 1980s, largely
because of the decline in oil prices. This sector accounts for
80% of export earnings and almost 20% of GDP. The government, in
response to the oil revenue loss, pursued a series of austerity
measures that pushed the unemployment rate as high as 22% in
1988. The economy showed signs of recovery in 1990 and 1991,
however, helped along by rising oil prices. Agriculture employs
only about 11% of the labor force and produces about 3% of GDP.
Since this sector is small, it has been unable to absorb the
large numbers of the unemployed. The government currently seeks
to diversify its export base.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $5 billion
(1991)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 2.6% (1991)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $3,800 (1991)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.8% (1991)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 18.5% (1991)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $1.6 billion; expenditures $1.6 billion,
including capital expenditures of $158 million (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $2.2 billion (f.o.b., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: includes reexports - petroleum and petroleum
products 82%, steel products 9%, fertilizer, sugar, cocoa,
coffee, citrus (1988)</l>
<l> partners: US 49%, CARICOM 12%</l>
<l>Imports: $1.7 billion (c.i.f., 1991)</l>
<l> commodities: raw materials and intermediate goods 48%,
capital goods 29%, consumer goods 23% (1991)</l>
<l> partners: US 39%, Venezuela 14%, UK 7%, CARICOM 5%
(1991)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $2.4 billion (1991)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 2.3%, excluding oil
refining (1986); accounts for 40% of GDP, including petroleum
</p>
<p>Electricity: 1,176,000 kW capacity; 3,480 million kWh
produced, 2,680 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: petroleum, chemicals, tourism, food processing,
cement, beverage, cotton textiles
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 3% of GDP; highly subsidized sector;
major crops - cocoa, sugarcane; sugarcane acreage is being
shifted into rice, citrus, coffee, vegetables; poultry sector
most important source of animal protein; must import large share
of food needs
</p>
<p>Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American drugs
destined for the US
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $373
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $518 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TT$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Trinidad and Tobago dollars (TT$) per US$1 -
4.2500 (fixed rate since 1989)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>