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- Economy
-
- Overview: Anguilla has few natural resources, and the economy
- depends heavily on lobster fishing, offshore banking, tourism,
- and remittances from emigrants. In recent years the economy
- has benefited from a boom in tourism. Development is planned
- to improve the infrastructure, particularly transport and
- tourist facilities, and also light industry. Improvement
- in the economy has reduced unemployment from 40% in 1984
- to about 5% in 1988.
-
- GDP: $23 million, per capita $3,350 (1988 est.); real growth
- rate 8.2% (1988).
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (1988 est.).
-
- Unemployment rate: 5.0% (1988 est.).
-
- Budget: revenues $9.0 million; expenditures $8.8 million,
- including capital expenditures of NA (1988 est.).
-
- Exports: $NA; commodities--lobsters and salt; partners--NA.
-
- Imports: $NA; commodities--NA; partners --NA.
-
- External debt: $NA.
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
-
- Electricity: 3,000 kW capacity; 9 million kWh produced,
- 1,300 kWh per capita (1988).
-
- Industries: tourism, boat building, salt, fishing (including
- lobster).
-
- Agriculture: pigeon peas, corn, sweet potatoes, sheep, goats,
- pigs, cattle, poultry.
-
- Aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
- (1970-87), $33 million.
-
- Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural--dollars); 1 EC
- dollar (EC$) = 100 cents.
-
- Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70
- (fixed rate since 1976).
-
- Fiscal year: NA.
-