Guernsey Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Agriculture: principal crops- -tomatoes and flowers (mostly grown under glass); sweet peppers, eggplant, plants, other vegetables and fruit; Guernsey cattle

Major industries: tourism, hanking

Electric power: 160,000 kW capacity (1985); 508 million kWh produced (1985), 9,585 kWh per capita

Exports: tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables, plants

Imports: coal, gasoline and oil

Major trade partners: UK (regarded as in ternal trade)

Budget-(1983) total revenues for Guernsey and Alderney, 63,836 million pounds; total expenditures for Guernsey and Alderney , 65,708 million pounds

Monetary conversion rate: 0.833 pound sterling=US$l (December 1984)

Fiscal year 1 January-31 December

NOTE: The information regarding Guernsey on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Guernsey 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Guernsey 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.