Statistics
GDP: purchasing power parity - $61.67 billion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 7.2% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $9,200 (2007 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 11.5% industry: 28.3% services: 60.2% (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.52% (2008 est.)
Labor force: 3.986 million (2007 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 17% industry: 24.3% services: 58.7% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate: 15.5% (2007 est.)
Population below poverty line: 42.2% (2004)
Budget: revenues: $7.014 billion
expenditures: $6.985 billion (2007 est.)
Industries: tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco
Electricity - production: 12.22 billion kWh (2005)
Electricity - consumption: 8.791 billion kWh (2005)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2005)
Oil - production: 12 bbl/d (1.9 m3/d) (2004)
Oil - consumption: 116,000 bbl/d (18,400 m3/d) (2005 est.)
Oil - exports: 0 bbl/d (0 m3/d) (2004)
Oil - imports: 116,700 bbl/d (18,550 m3/d) (2004)
Oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (0 m3) (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2005 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 239.8 million cu m (2005 est).
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2005 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 239.8 million cu m (2005)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs
Exports: $6.881 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities: ferro nickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats, consumer goods
Exports - partners: United States 72.7%, United Kingdom 3.2%, Belgium 2.4% (2006)
Imports: $12.89 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals
Imports - partners: United States 46.9%, Venezuela 8.4%, Colombia 6.3%, Mexico 5.7% (2006)
Debt - external: $8.842 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $76.99 million (2005)
Currency: Dominican peso
Exchange rates: Dominican pesos per US dollar - 33.113 (2007), 33.406 (2006), 30.409 (2005), 42.12 (2004), 30.831 (2003)
Fiscal year: calendar year
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