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Tourism, petroleum refining, and offshore finance are the mainstays of this small economy, which is closely tied to the outside world. Although GDP has declined or grown slightly in each of the past eight years, the islands enjoy a high per capita income and a well-developed infrastructure compared with other countries in the region. Almost all consumer and capital goods are imported, the US and Mexico being the major suppliers. Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the development of agriculture. Budgetary problems hamper reform of the health and pension systems of an aging population. 

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Netherlands Antilles

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$2.45 billion (2003 est.)

GDP — real growth rate:
0.5% (2003 est.)

GDP — per capita:
purchasing power parity: $11,400 (2003 est.)

GDP — composition by sector:
agriculture: 1%
industry: 15%
services: 84%
(2000)

Labor force:
89,000 (2000 est.)

Labor force — by occupation:
agriculture: 1%, industry: 13%, services: 86% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate:
15.6% (2002 est.)

Population below poverty line:
NA

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $710.8 million
expenditures: $741.6 million including capital expenditures of NA (1997 est.)

Agriculture — products:
Aloes, sorghum, peanuts, vegetables, tropical fruit

Industries:
tourism (Curacao, Sint Maarten, and Bonaire), petroleum refining (Curacao), petroleum transshipment facilities (Curacao and Bonaire), light manufacturing (Curacao)

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity — production:
1 billion kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity — production by source:
fossil fuel: NA
hydro: NA
nuclear: NA
other: NA

Electricity — consumption:
934.3 million kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity — exports:
0 kWh (2002 est.)

Electricity — imports:
0 kWh (2002 est.)

Oil — production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil — consumption:
72,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil — exports:
NA

Oil — imports:
NA

Exports:
$1.58 million (f.o.b. 2002 est.)

Exports — commodities:
ppetroleum products

Exports — partners:
US 20.4%, Panama 11.2%, Guatemala 8.8%, Haiti 7.1%, Bahamas, The 5.6%, Honduras 4.2% (2004)

Imports:
$2.23 billion (f.o.b. 2002 est.)

Imports — commodities:
crude petroleum, food, manufactures

Imports — partners:
Venezuela 51.1%, US 21.9%, Netherlands 5% (2004)

Debt — external:
$1.35 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid — recipient:
IMF: $61 million (2000 est.)
Netherlands: $40 million (2000 est.)

Currency:
Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG) 

Exchange rates:
Netherlands Antillean guilders per US$: 1.79 (2004 est.), 1.79 (2003 est.), 1.79 (2002 est.), 1.79 (2001 est.), 1.79 (2000 est.)

Fiscal year:
calendar year