The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ Iceland's

       economy has been diversifying into manufacturing and service

       industries in the last decade, and new developments in software

       production, biotechnology, and financial services are taking place.

       The tourism sector is also expanding, with the recent trends in

       ecotourism and whale watching. Growth had been remarkably steady in

       1996–2001 at 3%-5%, but could not be sustained in 2002 in an

       environment of global recession. Growth resumed in 2003, and

       inflation dropped back from 5% to 2%.

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $8.444 billion (2002 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       −0.6% (2002 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $30,200 (2002 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 14% (includes fishing 12%) industry: 21% services: 65% (2001 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       5.2% (2002 est.)

      Labor force:

       159,000 (2000)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 5.1%, fishing and fish processing 11.8%, manufacturing

       12.9%, construction 10.7%, other services 59.5% (1999)

      Unemployment rate:

       2.8% (2002 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $3.5 billion

       expenditures: $3.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $467

       million (1999)

      Industries:

       fish processing; aluminum smelting, ferrosilicon production,

       geothermal power; tourism

      Industrial production growth rate:

       0.2% (2002 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       7.894 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 0.1% hydro: 82.5% other: 17.5% (2001) nuclear: 0%

      Electricity - consumption:

       7.341 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       16,300 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       0 bbl/day (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       15,470 bbl/day (2001)

      Agriculture - products:

       potatoes, green vegetables, chicken, pork, mutton; fish

      Exports:

       $2.3 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       fish and fish products 70%, animal products, aluminum, diatomite,

       ferrosilicon

      Exports - partners:

       Germany 18.5%, UK 17.5%, Netherlands 11.4%, US 10.9%, Spain 5.2%,

       Denmark 4.6%, Portugal 4.3%, Norway 4.2% (2002)

      Imports:

       $2.1 billion (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and equipment, petroleum products; foodstuffs, textiles

      Imports - partners:

       US 10.9%, Germany 10.7%, Denmark 8.5%, Norway 8%, UK 7.5%,

       Netherlands 6%, Sweden 5.9% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $2.6 billion (1999)

      Economic aid - donor:

       $NA

      Currency:

       Icelandic krona (ISK)

      Currency code:

       ISK

      Exchange rates:

       Icelandic kronur per US dollar - 91.66 (2002), 97.42 (2001), 78.62

       (2000), 72.34 (1999), 70.96 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Iceland

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       196,984 (2001)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       248,131 (221,231 GSM, 26,900 NMT) (2001)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: extensive domestic service

       domestic: the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic

       cables and microwave radio relay links

       international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic

       Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions); note -

       Iceland shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic

       countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden)

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