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Economy
Overview: The Bahamas is a stable, middle-income developing
nation whose economy is based primarily on tourism and offshore
banking. Tourism alone provides about 50% of GDP and directly
or indirectly employs about 50,000 people or 40% of the
local work force. The economy has boomed in recent years,
aided by a steady annual increase in the number of tourists.
The per capita GDP of over $9,800 is one of the highest
in the region.
GDP: $2.4 billion, per capita $9,875; real growth rate 2.0%
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.1% (1988).
Unemployment: 12% (1986).
Budget: revenues $555 million; expenditures $702 million,
including capital expenditures of $138 million (1989 est.).
Exports: $733 million (f.o.b., 1987); commodities--pharmaceuticals,
cement, rum, crawfish; partners--US 90%, UK 10%.
Imports: $1.7 billion (c.i.f., 1987); commodities--foodstuffs,
manufactured goods, mineral fuels; partners--Iran 30%, Nigeria
20%, US 10%, EC 10%, Gabon 10%.
External debt: $1.5 billion (September 1988).
Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
Electricity: 368,000 kW capacity; 857 million kWh produced,
3,470 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: banking, tourism, cement, oil refining and
transshipment, salt production, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals,
spiral weld, steel pipe.
Agriculture: accounts for less than 5% of GDP; dominated
by small-scale producers; principal products--citrus fruit,
vegetables, poultry; large net importer of food.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-80), $42 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $344 million.
Currency: Bahamian dollar (plural--dollars); 1 Bahamian
dollar (B$) = 100 cents.
Exchange rates: Bahamian dollar (B$) per US$1--1.00 (fixed rate).
Fiscal year: calendar year.