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GDP: purchasing power parity - $674 million (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $10,000 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3.9% industry: 19.1%
services: 77% (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%:
NA% highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force: 30,000
Labor force - by occupation: commerce and services 82%, agriculture
11%, industry 7% (1983)
Unemployment rate: 7% (2000 est.)
Budget: revenues: $123.7 million expenditures: $145.9 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries: tourism, construction, light manufacturing (clothing, alcohol,
household appliances)
Industrial production growth rate: 6% (1997 est.)

Electricity - production: 100 million kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other:
0% (2000) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption: 93 million kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: cotton, fruits, vegetables, bananas, coconuts,
cucumbers, mangoes, sugarcane; livestock
Exports: $40 million (2000 est.)
Exports - commodities: petroleum products 48%, manufactures 23%,
machinery and transport equipment 17%, food and live animals 4%,
other 8%
Exports - partners: OECS 26%, Barbados 15%, Guyana 4%, Trinidad
and Tobago 2%, US 0.3%
Imports: $357 million (2000 est.)
Imports - commodities: food and live animals, machinery and transport
equipment, manufactures, chemicals, oil
Imports - partners: US 27%, UK 16%, Canada 4%, OECS 3%
Debt - external: $231 million (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $2.3 million (1995)
Currency: East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
Currency code: XCD
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars per US dollar - 2.7000 (fixed

rate since 1976)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
Communications Antigua and Barbuda
Telephones - main lines in use: 28,000 (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,300 (1996)
Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: good automatic
telephone system international: 1 coaxial submarine cable; satellite
earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); tropospheric scatter to Saba
(Netherlands Antilles) and Guadeloupe
Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)
Radios: 36,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997)
Televisions: 31,000 (1997)
Internet country code: .ag
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)
Internet users: 5,000 (2001)
Transportation Antigua and Barbuda
Railways: total: 77 km narrow gauge: 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km
0.610-m gauge (used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane) (2001
est.)
Highways: total: 1,165 km paved: 384 km unpaved: 781 km note: it is
assumed that the main roads are paved; the secondary roads are
assumed to be unpaved (1995)

Waterways: none
Ports and harbors: Saint John's
Merchant marine: total: 762 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
4,541,940 GRT/5,894,553 DWT ships by type: bulk 20, cargo 469,
chemical tanker 9, combination bulk 4, container 202, liquefied gas 7,
multi-functional large-load carrier 6, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated
cargo 9, roll on/roll off 35 note: includes some foreign-owned ships
registered here as a flag of convenience: Australia 1, Bangladesh 2,
Belgium 3, Colombia 1, Cuba 1, Estonia 1, Germany 747, Greece 1,
Iceland 8, Latvia 1, Lebanon 2, Lithuania 1, Netherlands 22, New
Zealand 2, Portugal 1, Slovenia 6, South Africa 1, Sweden 2, United
Kingdom 1, United States 7 (2002 est.)
Airports: 3 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 under 914
m: 1 (2001)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2001)
Military Antigua and Barbuda
Military branches: Royal Antigua and Barbuda Defense Force, Royal
Antigua and Barbuda Police Force (including the Coast Guard)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $NA
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA%
Transnational Issues Antigua and Barbuda
Disputes - international: none
Illicit drugs: considered a minor transshipment point for narcotics
bound for the US and Europe; more significant as a
drug-money-laundering center

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Afghanistan
Introduction
Afghanistan
Background: Afghanistan's recent history is characterized by war and
civil strife, with intermittent periods of relative calm and stability. The
Soviet Union invaded in 1979 but was forced to withdraw 10 years
later by anti-Communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the
US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others. Fighting subsequently
continued among the various mujahidin factions, giving rise to a state
of warlordism that spawned the Taliban in the early 1990s. The Taliban
was able to seize most of the country, aside from Northern Alliance
strongholds primarily in the northeast, until US and allied military
action in support of the opposition following the 11 September 2001
terrorist attacks forced the group's downfall. The four largest Afghan
opposition groups met in Bonn, Germany, in late 2001 and agreed on a
plan for the formulation of a new government structure that resulted in
the inauguration of Hamid KARZAI as Chairman of the Afghan
Interim Authority (AIA) on 22 December 2001. In