$43,800 (2004 est.) country comparison to the world: 14
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 3.2%
services: 95.4% (1994 est.)
Labor force:
39,000 country comparison to the world: 198 note: nearly 55% are non-nationals (2007)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 1.9%
industry: 19.1%
services: 79% (2008 est.)
Unemployment rate:
4% (2008) country comparison to the world: 37 4.4% (2004)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.1% (2008) country comparison to the world: 121 4.4% (2004)
Stock of narrow money:
$334.3 million (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 165
Stock of broad money:
$5.564 billion (31 December 2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 117
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA (31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 109 $183.5 million (31 December 2007)
$188.4 million (31 December 2006)
Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruit; livestock; turtle farming
Industries:
tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction materials, furniture
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
546 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 156
Electricity - consumption:
507.8 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 161
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2008 est.)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 197
Oil - consumption:
3,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 177
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 204
Oil - imports:
3,294 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 167
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 193
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 187
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 199
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 192
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 193
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 194
Exports:
$13.8 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 210 $2.52 million (2004)
Exports - commodities:
turtle products, manufactured consumer goods
Imports:
$876.5 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 173 $866.9 million (2004)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels
Debt - external:
$70 million (1996) country comparison to the world: 184
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$NA
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA
Exchange rates:
Caymanian dollars (KYD) per US dollar - NA (2007), 0.8496 (2006)
Communications ::Cayman Islands
Telephones - main lines in use:
38,000 (2009) country comparison to the world: 170
Telephones - mobile cellular:
33,800 (2004) country comparison to the world: 201
Telephone system:
general assessment: reasonably good system
domestic: liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004
international: country code - 1–345; landing points for the MAYA-1,
Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS), and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber
System submarine cables that provide
