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domestic inefficiencies. The government reluctantly allows a
large dollar market sector, fueled by tourism and remittances from
Cubans abroad.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $32.13 billion (2003 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.6% (2003 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $2,900 (2003 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5.5% industry: 26.9% services: 67.6% (2003 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
10.1% of GDP (2003)
Population below poverty line:
NA
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4.1% (2003 est.)
Labor force: 4.58 million note: state sector 78%, non-state sector 22% (2003 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 24%, industry 25%, services 51% (1999)
Unemployment rate:
2.6% (2003 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $17.21 billion
expenditures: $18.28 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)
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:
2.4% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
14.38 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
13.38 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
50,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
163,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
532 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - production:
600 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
600 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
42.62 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
Current account balance:
$-273 million (2003)
Exports:
$1.467 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities:
sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products, citrus, coffee
Exports - partners:
Netherlands 21.8%, Canada 16.2%, Russia 10.7%, Spain 8.7%, China
7.3% (2003)
Imports:
$4.531 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
petroleum, food, machinery and equipment, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Spain 16.6%, Venezuela 12.5%, Italy 8.6%, US 8.5%, China 7.7%,
Canada 5.4%, Mexico 5.3%, France 4.9% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$582 million (2003)
Debt - external:
$12.52 billion (convertible currency); another $15 billion -$20
billion owed to Russia (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$68.2 million (1997 est.)
Currency:
Cuban peso (CUP)
Currency code:
CUP
Exchange rates:
Cuban pesos per US dollar - 1.0000 (nonconvertible, official rate,
for international transactions, pegged to the US dollar);
convertible peso sold for domestic use at a rate of 27 pesos per US
dollar by the Government of Cuba (2002)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Cuba
Telephones - main lines in use:
574,400 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
17,900 (2002)
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;
cellular service, initially restricted, was opened to public access
in 2003
domestic: national fiber-optic system scheduled to be completed by
end of 2003; 85% of switches digitized by end of 2002 with entire
system by end 2003; telephone line density remains low; cellular
service expanding
international: country code - 53; fiber-optic cable laid to but not
linked to US network; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik
(Atlantic Ocean region)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 169, FM 55, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios:
3.9 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
58 (1997)
Televisions:
2.64 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.cu
Internet hosts:
1,529 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2001)
Internet users:
120,000 (2001)
Transportation Cuba
Railways:
total: 4,226 km
standard gauge: