Budget:
revenues: $209 million
expenditures: $232 million, including capital expenditures of $8
million (1992 est.)
Exports: $240 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: petroleum products 98%
partners: US 39%, Brazil 9%, Colombia 6%
Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: crude petroleum 64%, food, manufactures partners: Venezuela 26%, US 18%, Colombia 6%, Netherlands 6%, Japan 5%
External debt: $672 million (December 1991)
Industrial production: growth rate NA%
Electricity: capacity: 200,000 kW production: 810 million kWh consumption per capita: 4,054 kWh (1993)
Industries: tourism (Curacao and Sint Maarten), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)
Agriculture: chief products - aloes, sorghum, peanuts, vegetables,
tropical fruit
Illicit drugs: money-laundering center; transshipment point for South
American cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe
Economic aid:
recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $513 million