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Economy
Overview: The oil price decline in recent years has had
an adverse impact on the economy. Petroleum production and
processing account for about 85% of export receipts, 60%
of government revenues, and 20% of GDP. In 1986 soft oil-market
conditions led to a 5% drop in GDP, in sharp contrast wit
the 5% average annual growth rate during the early 1980s.
The slowdown in economic activity, however, has helped to
check the inflation of the 1970s. The government's past
economic diversification efforts have moderated the severity
of the downturn but failed to offset oil and gas revenue
losses.
GDP: $3.5 billion, per capita $7,550 (1987); real growth rate 0%
(1988).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.3% (1988).
Unemployment: 8-10% (1989).
Budget: revenues $1,136 million; expenditures $1,210 million,
including capital expenditures of $294 million (1987).
Exports: $2.4 billion (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--petroleum
80%, aluminum 7%, other 13%; partners--US, UAE, Japan, Singapore,
Saudi Arabia.
Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--nonoil
59%, crude oil 41%; partners--UK, Saudi Arabia, US, Japan.
External debt: $1.1 billion (December 1989 est.).
Industrial production: growth rate -3.1% (1987).
Electricity: 1,652,000 kW capacity; 6,000 million kWh produced,
12,800 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: petroleum processing and refining, aluminum
smelting, offshore banking, ship repairing.
Agriculture: including fishing, accounts for less than 2%
of GDP; not self-sufficient in food production; heavily
subsidized sector produces fruit, vegetables, poultry, dairy
products, shrimp, and fish; fish catch 9,000 metric tons in 1987.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-79), $24 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $28 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $9.8 billion.
Currency: Bahraini dinar (plural--dinars); 1 Bahraini dinar
(BD) = 1,000 fils.
Exchange rates: Bahraini dinars (BD) per US$1--0.3760 (fixed rate).
Fiscal year: calendar year.