Statistics
GDP: purchasing power parity - US$24.58 billion (2011 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.5% (2011 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - US$9,000 (2011 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 5.8%
industry: 29.5%
services: 64.7% (2011 est.)
Population below poverty line: 16.5% (2009 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.1%
highest 10%: 35.8% (2004)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.4% (2011 est.)
Labor force: 1.32 million (2011)
Labor force - by occupation: services 64%, agriculture 17%, industry 19% (2006)
Unemployment rate: 12.7% (2011 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $3.982 billion
expenditures: $4.744 billion(2011 est.)
Industries: tourism, bauxite/alumina, agro processing, light manufactures, rum, cement, metal, paper, chemical products, telecommunications.
Industrial production growth rate: -2% (2010 est.)
Electricity - production: 7.323 billion kWh (2008 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 92.7%
hydro: 2.21%
nuclear: 0%
other: 5.09% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 6.4 billion kWh (2008)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2009)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2009)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, yams, ackees, vegetables; poultry, goats, milk, shellfish
Exports: $1.65 billion (2011 est.)
Exports - commodities: alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, rum, coffee, beverages, chemicals
Exports - partners: United States 34%, Canada 15.8%, Norway 9.4%, United Kingdom 6.6%, Netherlands 6.1% (2010)
Imports: $6.356 billion (2011 est.)
Imports - commodities: food and other consumer goods, industrial supplies, fuel, parts and accessories of capital goods, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials
Imports - partners: United States 32.6%, Venezuela 15%, Trinidad & Tobago 14.5%, China 4.6% (2010)
Debt - external: $13.83 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
Currency: 1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars (J$) per US$1 – 86.36 (2011 est.), 80.83 (January 2009), 70.0 (December 2007), 62.5 (September 2005), 45.7 (June 2001), 41.139 (December 1999), 9.044 (1999), 36.550 (1998), 35.404 (1997), 37.120 (1996)
Fiscal year: 1 April–31 March
- See also: Jamaica
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