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Introduction - Bermuda: | Location - Bermuda: | People - Bermuda: | Government - Bermuda: | Economy - Bermuda: | Economy overview | Bermuda enjoys the highest per capita income in the world, more than 50% higher than that of the US. Its economy is primarily based on providing financial services for international business and luxury facilities for tourists. A number of reinsurance companies relocated to the island following the 11 September 2001 attacks and again after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, contributing to the expansion of an already robust international business sector. Bermudas tourism industry - which derives over 80% of its visitors from the US - continues to struggle but remains the islands number two industry. Most capital equipment and food must be imported. Bermudas industrial sector is small, although construction continues to be important; the average cost of a house in June 2003 had risen to $976,000. Agriculture is limited with only 20% of the land being arable. | | Gdp purchasing power parity | $4.5 billion (2004 est.) | | Gdp official exchange rate | NA | | Gdp real growth rate | 4.6% (2004 est.) | | Gdp per capita ppp | $69,900 (2004 est.) | | Gdp composition by sector | agriculture: 1%
industry: 10%
services: 89% (2002 est.) | | Labor force | 38,360 (2004) | | Labor force by occupation | agriculture and fishing 3%, laborers 17%, clerical 19%, professional and technical 21%, administrative and managerial 15%, sales 7%, services 19% (2004 est.) | | Unemployment rate | 2.1% (2004 est.) | | Population below poverty line | 19% (2000) | | Household income or consumption by percentage share | lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA% | | Inflation rate consumer prices | 2.8% (November 2005) | | Budget | revenues: $738 million
expenditures: $665 million (FY04/05) | | Agriculture products | bananas, vegetables, citrus, flowers; dairy products, honey | | Industries | international business, tourism, light manufacturing | | Industrial production growth rate | NA% | | Electricity production | 682.5 million kWh (2005) | | Electricity consumption | 616.7 million kWh (2005) | | Electricity exports | 0 kWh (2005) | | Electricity imports | 0 kWh (2004) | | Oil production | 0 bbl/day (2004) | | Oil consumption | 4,658 bbl/day (2005 est.) | | Oil exports | 0 bbl/day (2005) | | Oil imports | NA bbl/day | | Oil proved reserves | 0 bbl | | Natural gas production | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Natural gas consumption | 0 cu m (2004 est.) | | Exports | $1.469 billion (2004 est.) | | Exports commodities | reexports of pharmaceuticals | | Exports partners | Spain 35%, UK 18.4%, Sweden 8.7%, Germany 4.1% (2006) | | Imports | $982 million (2004 est.) | | Imports commodities | clothing, fuels, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials, chemicals, food and live animals | | Imports partners | South Korea 21.5%, US 16.7%, Germany 16.1%, Italy 13.4%, Spain 8.8% (2006) | | Debt external | $160 million (FY99/00) | | Economic aid recipient | $NA | | Currency code | Bermudian dollar (BMD) | | Exchange rates | Bermudian dollar per US dollar - 1.0000 (fixed rate pegged to the US dollar) | |
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