Industries: construction, cement, rum, sugar, tourism
Agriculture: cash crops - bananas, sugarcane; other products include tropical fruits and vegetables; livestock - cattle, pigs, goats; not self-sufficient in food
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $4 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $8.235 billion
Currency: 1 French franc (F) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1 - 5.9243 (January 1995), 5.5520 (1994), 5.6632 (1993), 5.2938 (1992), 5.6421 (1991), 5.4453 (1990)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Guadeloupe:Transportation
Railroads: total: NA km; privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines
Highways: total: 1,940 km paved: 1,600 km unpaved: gravel, earth 340 km
Ports: Basse-Terre, Gustavia, Marigot, Pointe-a-Pitre