The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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       years, the tourist industry has grown rapidly, creating a

       construction boom for new hotels and the expansion of older ones.

       More than 1 million tourists visit Guam each year. The industry had

       recently suffered setbacks because of the continuing Japanese

       slowdown; the Japanese normally make up almost 90% of the tourists.

       Most food and industrial goods are imported. Guam faces the problem

       of building up the civilian economic sector to offset the impact of

       military downsizing.

      GDP:

       purchasing power parity - $3.2 billion (2000 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

       NA

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $21,000 (2000 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7% industry: 15% services: 78% (2002 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

       23% (2001 est.)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA

       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       0% (1999 est.)

      Labor force:

       60,000 (2000 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       private 74% (industry 10%, trade 24%, other services 40%), federal

       and territorial government 26% (2000 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       15% (2000 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $340 million

       expenditures: $445 million, including capital expenditures of NA

       (2000 est.)

      Agriculture - products:

       fruits, copra, vegetables; eggs, pork, poultry, beef

      Industries:

       US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services,

       concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles

      Industrial production growth rate:

       NA

      Electricity - production:

       830 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       771.9 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       20,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Exports:

       $38 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       mostly transshipments of refined petroleum products; construction

       materials, fish, food and beverage products

      Exports - partners:

       Japan 70.1%, South Korea 17.9%, Singapore 6% (2003)

      Imports:

       $462 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       petroleum and petroleum products, food, manufactured goods

      Imports - partners:

       Singapore 35.8%, Japan 22.2%, South Korea 17.5%, Hong Kong 11.4%

       (2003)

      Debt - external:

       NA (2003 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       Guam receives large transfer payments from the US Federal Treasury

       ($143 million in 1997) into which Guamanians pay no income or excise

       taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam

       Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes

       paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam

       (2001 est.)

      Currency:

       US dollar (USD)

      Currency code:

       USD

      Exchange rates:

       the US dollar is used

      Fiscal year:

       1 October - 30 September

      Communications Guam

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       84,134 (2001)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       32,600 (2001)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: modern system, integrated with US facilities

       for direct dialing, including free use of 800 numbers

       domestic: modern digital system, including cellular mobile service

       and local access to the Internet

       international: country code - 1–671; satellite earth stations - 2

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