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- Economy
-
- Overview: The mainstay of Andorra's economy is tourism.
- An estimated 12 million tourists visit annually, attracted
- by Andorra's duty-free status and by its summer and winter
- resorts. Agricultural production is limited by a scarcity
- of arable land, and most food has to be imported. The principal
- livestock activity is sheep raising. Manufacturing consists
- mainly of cigarettes, cigars, and furniture. The rapid pace
- of European economic integration is a potential threat to
- Andorra's advantages from its duty-free status.
-
- GNP: $NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate NA%.
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%.
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- Unemployment rate: NA%.
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- Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital
- expenditures of $NA.
-
- Exports: $0.017 million (f.o.b., 1986); commodities--electricity;
- partners--France, Spain.
-
- Imports: $531 million (f.o.b., 1986); commodities--NA;
- partners--France, Spain.
-
- External debt: $NA.
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
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- Electricity: 35,000 kW capacity; 140 million kWh produced,
- 2,800 kWh per capita (1989).
-
- Industries: tourism (particularly skiing), sheep, timber,
- tobacco, smuggling, banking.
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- Agriculture: sheep raising; small quantities of tobacco,
- rye, wheat, barley, oats, and some vegetables.
-
- Aid: none.
-
- Currency: French franc (plural--francs) and Spanish peseta
- (plural--pesetas); 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes and
- 1 Spanish peseta (Pta) = 100 centimos.
-
- Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1--5.7598 (January
- 1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569 (1988), 6.0107 (1987), 6.9261
- (1986), 8.9852 (1985); Spanish pesetas (Ptas) per US$1--109.69
- (January 1990), 118.38 (1989), 116.49 (1988), 123.48 (1987),
- 140.05 (1986), 170.04 (1985).
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- Fiscal year: calendar year.
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