style="font-size:15px;"> Inflation rate (consumer prices):2% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate:
8%-10% (1989)
Budget:
revenues:
$1.2 billion
expenditures:
$1.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992)
Exports:
$3.5 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products 80%, aluminum 7%
partners:
Japan 13%, UAE 12%, India 10%, Pakistan 8%, Singapore 6% (1991)
Imports:
$3.7 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
nonoil 59%, crude oil 41%
partners:
Saudi Arabia 42%, US 14%, UK 7%, Japan 5%, Germany 4% (1991)
External debt:
$2.6 billion (1993)
Industrial production:
growth rate 3.8% (1988); accounts for 44% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity:
1,600,000 kW
production:
4.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
8,500 kWh (1992)
Industries:
petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, offshore
banking, ship repairing
Agriculture:
including fishing, accounts for less than 2% of GDP; not
self-sufficient in food production; heavily subsidized sector produces
fruit, vegetables, poultry, dairy products, shrimp, fish
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70–79), $24 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970–89), $45
million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979–89), $9.8 billion
Currency:
1 Bahraini dinar (BD) = 1,000 fils
Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars (BD) per US$1 - 0.3760 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
@Bahrain, Communications
Highways:
total:
NA
paved:
bituminous 200 km
unpaved:
NA
Pipelines:
crude oil 56 km; petroleum products 16 km; natural gas 32 km
Ports:
Mina' Salman, Manama, Sitrah
Merchant marine:
6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 101,844 GRT/143,997 DWT, bulk 1,
cargo 4, container 1
Airports:
total:
3
usable:
3
with permanent-surface runways:
2
with runways over 3,659 m:
2
with runways 2,440–3,659 m:
0
with runways 1,220–2,439 m:
1
Telecommunications:
modern system; good domestic services; 98,000 telephones (1 for every
6 persons); excellent international connections; tropospheric scatter
to Qatar, UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable
to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 1 Atlantic
Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT; broadcast stations
- 2 AM, 3 FM, 2 TV
@Bahrain, Defense Forces
Branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, Police Force
Manpower availability:
males age 15–49 198,414; fit for military service 109,431; reach
military age (15) annually 5,093 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $245 million, 6% of GDP (1993)
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Affiliation: (territory of the US)
@Baker Island, Geography
Location:
Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the
Equator, 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaii
and Australia
Map references:
Oceania
Area:
total area:
1.4 sq km
