Jamaica Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $2.0billion (1984), $890 per capita; real growth rate 1984, —1.0% est.

Natural resources: bauxite, gypsum, limestone

Agriculture: main crops—sugarcane, citrus fruits, bananas, pimento, coconuts, coffee, cocoa, tobacco; an illegal producer of cannabis for the international drug trade

Major industries: tourism bauxite mining, textiles, food processing, light manufactures

Electric power: 1,080,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.8 billion kWh produced (1985), 790 kWh per capita

Exports $706 million (f.o.b., 1984); alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, citrus fruits and fruit products, rum, cocoa

Imports. $1.1 billion (c.i.f., 1984); fuels, machinery, transportation and electrical equipment, food, fertilizer

Jamaica

Major trade partners: exports—US 48%, Canada 14%, UK 13%, Norway 3%, imports- -US 46%, Netherlands Antilles 13%, Venezuela 8%, UK 5% (19841

Budget: revenues, $ 1.0 billion; expenditures, $1.6 billion (1982)

Monetary conversion rate: 5 50 Jamaican doilars=US$l (December 1985)

Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

NOTE: The information regarding Jamaica 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 Jamaica 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Jamaica 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.