@Trinidad And Tobago:Economy
Overview: Trinidad and Tobago's petroleum-based economy still enjoys a high per capita income by Latin American standards, even though output and living standards are substantially below the boom years of 1973-82. The country suffers from widespread unemployment, large foreign-debt payments, and periods of low international oil prices. The government has begun to make progress in its efforts to diversify exports and to liberalize its trade regime, making 1994 the first year of substantial growth since the early 1980s.
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $15 billion (1994 est.)
National product real growth rate: 3% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: $11,280 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.1% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate: 18.1% (1994 )
Budget:
revenues: $1.6 billion
expenditures: $1.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $158
million (1993 est.)
Exports: $1.9 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, steel
products, fertilizer, sugar, cocoa, coffee, citrus, flowers
partners: US 44%, CARICOM 15%, Latin America 9%, EC 5% (1993)
Imports: $996 million (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: machinery, transportation equipment, manufactured goods,
food, live animals
partners: US 43%, Venezuela 10%, UK 8%, other EC 8% (1993)