Unemployment rate: 32.1% (1990)
Budget:
revenues: $610 million
expenditures: $1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1991)
Exports: $247 million (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: refined petroleum products, bananas, rum, pineapples partners: France 57%, Guadeloupe 31%, French Guiana (1991)
Imports: $1.75 billion (c.i.f., 1992) commodities: petroleum products, crude oil, foodstuffs, construction materials, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods partners: France 62%, UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, US (1991)
External debt: $NA
Industrial production: growth rate NA%
Electricity: capacity: 113,100 kW production: 700 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,677 kWh (1993)
Industries: construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar, tourism
Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for about 10% of GDP; principal crops - pineapples, avocados, bananas, flowers, vegetables, sugarcane for rum; dependent on imported food, particularly meat and vegetables
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for
the US and Europe