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Economy
Overview: Puerto Rico has one of the most dynamic economies
in the Caribbean region. Industry has surpassed agriculture
as the primary sector of economic activity and income. Encouraged
by duty-free access to the US and by tax incentives, US
firms have invested heavily in Puerto Rico since the 1970s.
Important new industries include pharmaceuticals, electronics,
textiles, petrochemicals, and processed foods. Sugar production
has lost out to dairy production and other livestock products
as the main source of income in the agricultural sector.
Tourism has traditionally been an important source of income
for the island.
GNP: $18.4 billion, per capita $5,574; real growth rate 4.9% (FY88).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 33% (December 1987-88).
Unemployment rate: 12.8% (December 1988).
Budget: revenues $4.9 million; expenditures $4.9 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (FY88).
Exports: $13.2 billion (f.o.b., FY88); commodities--sugar,
coffee, petroleum products, chemical, metal products, textiles,
electronic equipment; partners--US 87%.
Imports: $11.8 billion (c.i.f., FY88); commodities--chemicals,
clothing, food, fish products, crude oil; partners--US 60%.
External debt: $NA.
Industrial production: growth rate 5.8% (FY87).
Electricity: 4,149,000 kW capacity; 14,050 million kWh produced,
4,260 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: tourism, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals,
food processing, petroleum refining.
Agriculture: accounts for 4% of labor force; crops--sugarcane,
coffee, pineapples, tobacco, bananas; livestock--cattle,
chickens; imports a large share of food needs.
Aid: none.
Currency: US currency is used.
Exchange rates: US currency is used.
Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June.