:San Marino Economy
Overview:
More than 2 million tourists visit each year, contributing about 60% to GDP.
The sale of postage stamps to foreign collectors is another important income
producer. The manufacturing sector employs nearly 40% of the labor force and
agriculture less than 4%. The per capita level of output and standard of
living are comparable to northern Italy.
GDP:
purchasing power equivalent - $400 million, per capita $17,000; real growth
rate NA% (1991 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6% (1990)
Unemployment rate:
6.5% (1985)
Budget:
revenues $99.2 million; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of
$NA (1983)
Exports:
*** No entry for this item ***
trade data are included with the statistics for Italy; commodity trade
consists primarily of exchanging building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts,
wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, and ceramics for a wide variety of consumer
manufactures
Imports:
see
External debt:
$NA
Industrial production:
growth rate NA%
Electricity:
supplied by Italy
Industries:
wine, olive oil, cement, leather, textile, tourism
Agriculture:
employs less than 4% of labor force; products - wheat, grapes, corn, olives,
meat, cheese, hides; small numbers of cattle, pigs, horses; depends on Italy
for food imports
Economic aid:
NA
Currency:
Italian lira (plural - lire); 1 Italian lira (Lit) = 100 centesimi; also
mints its own coins
Exchange rates:
Italian lire (Lit) per US$1 - 1,248.4 (March 1992), 1,240.6 (1991), 1,198.1
(1990), 1,372.1 (1989), 1,301.6 (1988), 1,296.1 (1987)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
:San Marino Communications
Highways:
104 km
Telecommunications:
automatic telephone system completely integrated into Italian system; 11,700
telephones; broadcast services from Italy; microwave and cable links into
Italian networks; no communication satellite facilities
:San Marino Defense Forces
Branches:
public security or police force of less than 50 people
Manpower availability:
all fit men ages 16-60 constitute a militia that can serve as an army
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $NA, NA% of GDP
:Sao Tome and Principe Geography
Total area:
960 km2
Land area:
960 km2
Comparative area:
slightly less than 5.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
none
Coastline:
209 km
Maritime claims:
(measured from claimed archipelagic baselines)
Exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
Territorial sea:
12 nm
Disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
Terrain:
volcanic, mountainous
Natural resources:
fish
Land use:
arable land 1%; permanent crops 20%; meadows and pastures 1%; forest and
woodland 75%; other 3%
Environment:
deforestation; soil erosion
Note:
located south of Nigeria and west of Gabon near the Equator in the North
Atlantic Ocean
:Sao Tome and Principe People
Population:
132,338 (July 1992), growth rate 2.9% (1992)
Birth rate:
38 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
8 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
58 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
64 years male, 68 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
5.2 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Sao Tomean(s); adjective - Sao Tomean
Ethnic divisions:
mestico, angolares (descendents of Angolan slaves), forros (descendents of
freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and
Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), and
Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
Religions:
Roman Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, Seventh-Day Adventist
Languages:
Portuguese (official)
Literacy:
57% (male 73%, female 42%) age 15 and over can read and write (1981)
Labor force:
21,096 (1981); most of population engaged in subsistence agriculture and
fishing; labor shortages on plantations and of skilled workers; 56% of
population of working age (1983)
Organized labor:
NA