The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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- real growth rate:

      6.5% (2007 est.)

      GDP - per capita (PPP):

      $11,000 (2007 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector:

      agriculture: 5.2% industry: 25% services: 69.8% (2007 est.)

      Labor force:

      4.956 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2007 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: 20% industry: 19.4% services: 60.6% (2005)

      Unemployment rate:

      1.8% (2007 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%

      Investment (gross fixed):

      13.1% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $41.84 billion expenditures: $43.9 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      36.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      3.1% (2007 est.)

      Central bank discount rate:

      NA

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      NA

      Stock of money:

      NA

      Stock of quasi money:

      NA

      Stock of domestic credit:

      NA

      Agriculture - products:

      sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee, rice, potatoes, beans; livestock

      Industries:

      sugar, petroleum, tobacco, construction, nickel, steel, cement, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals

      Industrial production growth rate:

      2.5% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      16.97 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      14.02 billion kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 93.9% hydro: 0.6% nuclear: 0% other: 5.4% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      61,300 bbl/day (2008 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

      203,500 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      0 bbl/day (2006)

      Oil - imports:

      123,200 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      124 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      1.058 billion cu m (2006)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      1.058 billion cu m (2006)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      70.79 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

      Current account balance:

      $240 million (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $3.734 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products, citrus, coffee

      Exports - partners:

      China 27.5%, Canada 26.9%, Netherlands 11.1%, Spain 4.7% (2007)

      Imports:

      $10.08 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      petroleum, food, machinery and equipment, chemicals

      Imports - partners:

      Venezuela 29.6%, China 13.4%, Spain 10.4%, Canada 6%, US 5.1% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $87.8 million (2005 est.)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $4.247 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $16.79 billion (convertible currency); another $15–20 billion owed to Russia (31 December 2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $11.24 billion (2006 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $4.138 billion (2006 est.)

      Currency (code):

      Cuban peso (CUP) and Convertible peso (CUC)

      Currency code:

      CUP (nonconvertible Cuban peso) and CUC (convertible Cuban peso)

      Exchange rates:

      Cuban pesos (CUP) per US dollar - 0.9259 (2007), 0.9231 (2006) note: Cuba has two currencies in circulation: the Cuban peso (CUP) and the convertible peso (CUC); in April 2005 the official exchange rate changed from $1 per CUC to $1.08 per CUC (0.93 CUC per $1), both for individuals and enterprises; individuals can buy 24 Cuban pesos (CUP) for each CUC sold, or sell 25 Cuban pesos for each CUC bought; enterprises, however, must exchange CUP and CUC at a 1:1 ratio.

      Communications

       Cuba

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      1.043 million (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      198,300 (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: greater investment beginning in 1994 and the establishment of a new Ministry of Information Technology and Communications in 2000 has resulted in improvements in the system; wireless service is expensive and must be paid in convertible pesos which effectively limits mobile cellular subscribership domestic: national fiber-optic system under development; 95% of switches digitized by end of 2006; fixed telephone line density remains low, at less than 10 per 100 inhabitants; domestic cellular service expanding but remains at only about 2 per 100 persons international: country code - 53; fiber-optic cable laid to but not linked to US network; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region) (2007)

      Radio


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