The 1999 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1997)

      Labor force: NA

      Labor force—by occupation: most employment is in the tourist industry (1996)

      Unemployment rate: 0.6% (1996 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $345.3 million

       expenditures: $378.5 million, including capital expenditures of $107

       million (1997 est.)

      Industries: tourism, transshipment facilities, oil refining

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity—production: 470 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)

      Electricity—consumption: 470 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: aloes; livestock; fish

      Exports: $1.73 billion (including oil reexports)(1997)

      Exports—commodities: mostly refined petroleum products

      Exports—partners: US 64%, EU

      Imports: $2.12 billion (1997)

      Imports—commodities: food, consumer goods, manufactures, petroleum products, crude oil for refining and reexport

      Imports—partners: US 55.5%, Netherlands 12.3%, Japan 3.5%

      Debt—external: $285 million (1996)

      Economic aid—recipient: $26 million (1995); note?the Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and Suriname in 1996

      Currency: 1 Aruban florin (Af.) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: Aruban florins (Af.) per US$1—1.7900 (fixed rate since 1986)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Communications

      Telephones: 22,922 (1993 est.)

      Telephone system:

       domestic: more than adequate

       international: 1 submarine cable to Sint Maarten (Netherlands

       Antilles); extensive interisland microwave radio relay links

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 6, shortwave 0

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

      Televisions: 19,000 (1993 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways:

       total: 300 km

       paved: 130 km

       unpaved: 170 km

       note: most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large

       tracts of the interior

      Ports and harbors: Barcadera, Oranjestad, Sint Nicolaas

      Merchant marine:

       total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,366 GRT/1,595 DWT

       (1998 est.)

      Airports: 2 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military—note: defense is the responsibility of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: none

      Illicit drugs: drug-money-laundering center and transit point for narcotics bound for the US and Europe; added to the US list of major drug producing or drug transit countries in December 1996

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      @Ashmore and Cartier Islands—————————————

      Geography

      Location: Southeastern Asia, islands in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia

      Geographic coordinates: 12 14 S, 123 05 E

      Map references: Southeast Asia

      Area:

       total: 5 sq km

       land: 5 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

       note: includes Ashmore Reef (West, Middle, and East Islets) and

       Cartier Island

      Area—comparative: about eight times the size of The Mall in

       Washington, DC

      Land boundaries: 0 km

      Coastline: 74.1 km

      Maritime claims:

       contiguous zone: 12 nm

       continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

       exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

       territorial sea: 3 nm

      Climate: tropical

      Terrain: low with sand and coral

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 3 m

      Natural resources: fish

      Land use:

       arable land: 0%

       permanent crops: 0%

       permanent pastures: 0%

       forests and woodland: 0%

       other: 100% (all grass and sand)

      Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993)

      Natural hazards: surrounded СКАЧАТЬ