- per capita:purchasing power parity - $7,900 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 15% industry: 17% services: 68% (1997 est.)
Labor force:
125,900 (1997)
Labor force - by occupation:
NA
Unemployment rate:
27.8% (1998)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
NA%
Budget:
revenues: $225 million
expenditures: $390 million, including capital expenditures of $105
million (1996)
Agriculture - products: bananas, sugarcane, tropical fruits and vegetables; cattle, pigs, goats
Industries:
construction, cement, rum, sugar, tourism
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
1.16 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.079 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
13,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Exports:
$140 million f.o.b. (1997)
Exports - commodities:
bananas, sugar, rum
Exports - partners:
France 60%, Martinique 18%, US 4% (1999)
Imports:
$1.7 billion c.i.f. (1997)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, fuels, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods,
construction materials
Imports - partners:
France 63%, Germany 4%, US 3%, Japan 2%, Netherlands Antilles 2%
(1999)
Debt - external:
$NA (yearend 2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
NA; note - substantial annual French subsidies (2004)
Currency (code):
euro (EUR)
Currency code:
EUR
Exchange rates:
euros per US dollar - 0.8054 (2004), 0.886 (2003), 1.0626 (2002),
1.1175 j(2001), 1.0854 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Guadeloupe
Telephones - main lines in use:
210,000 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
323,500 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: domestic facilities inadequate
domestic: NA
international: country code - 590; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); microwave radio relay to Antigua and
Barbuda, Dominica, and Martinique
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 17, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
113,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
5 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
118,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.gp
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
3 (2000)
Internet users:
20,000 (2002)
Transportation Guadeloupe
Highways:
total: 947 km (2002)
Ports and harbors:
Basse-Terre, Gustavia, Pointe-a-Pitre
Merchant marine: total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,240 GRT/109 DWT by type: passenger 1 foreign-owned: 1 (France 1) (2005)
Airports: 9 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 8 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1
