force - by occupation:
agriculture: negligible industry: 40% services: 60% (2001)
Unemployment rate:
3% (2005 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $455.1 million expenditures: $423.6 million (2005 est.)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Public debt:
15.7% of GDP (2005 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.9% (2005)
Agriculture - products:
none
Industries:
tourism, banking and finance, ship repairing, tobacco
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
142 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
142 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
22,620 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
25,080 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Exports:
$271 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
(principally reexports) petroleum 51%, manufactured goods 41%, other 8%
Exports - partners:
UK 30.8%, Spain 22.7%, Germany 13.7%, Turkmenistan 10.4%,
Switzerland 8.3%, Italy 6.7% (2006)
Imports:
$2.967 billion c.i.f. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Spain 23.4%, Russia 12.3%, Italy 12%, UK 9%, France 8.9%,
Netherlands 6.8%, US 4.7% (2006)
Economic aid - recipient:
$NA
Debt - external:
$NA
Currency (code):
Gibraltar pound (GIP)
Currency code:
GIP
Exchange rates:
Gibraltar pounds (GIP) per US dollar - 0.4993 (2007), 0.5434 (2006), 0.5504 (2005), 0.5462 (2004), 0.6125 (2003) note: the Gibraltar pound is at par with the British pound
Communications
Gibraltar
Telephones - main lines in use:
24,512 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
9,797 (2002)
Telephone system:
general assessment: adequate, automatic domestic system and adequate international facilities domestic: automatic exchange facilities international: country code - 350; radiotelephone; microwave radio relay; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios:
37,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (plus 3 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
10,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.gi
Internet hosts:
1,904 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)
Internet users:
6,200 (2002)
Transportation
Gibraltar
Airports:
1 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)
Roadways:
total: 29 km paved: 29 km (2007)
Merchant marine:
total: 240 by type: bulk carrier 5, cargo 125, chemical tanker 51, container 43, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 10, roll on/roll off 5 foreign-owned: 225 (Belgium 2, Cyprus 1, Denmark 7, Finland 3, Germany 129, Greece 6, Iceland 1, Morocco 4, Netherlands 21, Norway 33, Sweden 13, UAE 3, UK 2) registered in other countries: 7 (Liberia 5, Panama 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1) (2008)
Ports and terminals:
Gibraltar
Military
Gibraltar
Military branches:
Royal Gibraltar Regiment
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 6,308 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 5,244 (2008 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 190 female: 185 (2008 est.)
Military - note:
defense is the responsibility of the UK; the Royal Gibraltar Regiment replaced