The 1997 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Islands have used the dollar as their currency since 1959.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $135 million (1995 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate: 4% (1995 est.)

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $10,200 (1995 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3% industry: 14% services: 83% (1989)

      Inflation rate - consumer price index: 2.5% (1990 est.)

      Labor force: total: 4,911 (1980) by occupation: tourism NA%

      Unemployment rate: 3% (1995)

      Budget: revenues: $77.1 million expenditures : $76.4 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY93/94)

      Industries: tourism, light industry, construction, rum, concrete block, offshore financial center

      Industrial production growth rate: 4% (1985)

      Electricity - capacity: NA kW

      Electricity - production: NA kWh

      Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh

      Agriculture - products: fruits, vegetables; livestock, poultry; fish

      Exports: total value: $3.4 million (f.o.b., 1990) commodities : rum, fresh fish, fruits, animals; gravel, sand partners: Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, US

      Imports: total value: $11.5 million (c.i.f., 1988) commodities: building materials, automobiles, foodstuffs, machinery partners: Virgin Islands (US), Puerto Rico, US

      Debt - external: $4.5 million (1985)

      Economic aid: $NA

      Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: US currency is used

      Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

      @British Virgin Islands:Communications

      Telephones: 6,291 (1990 est.)

      Telephone system: worldwide telephone service domestic: NA international: submarine cable to Bermuda

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1995)

      Radios: 9,000 (1992 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 1

      Televisions: 4,000 (1992 est.)

      @British Virgin Islands:Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 113 km (1995 est.) paved: NA km unpaved: NA km

      Ports and harbors: Road Town

      Merchant marine: none (1995 est.)

      Airports: 3 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 2 914 to 1,523 m : 1 under 914 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total : 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Military

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: none ______________________________________________________________________

      BRUNEI

      @Brunei:Geography

      Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and

       Malaysia

      Geographic coordinates: 4 30 N, 114 40 E

      Map references: Southeast Asia

      Area: total: 5,770 sq km land : 5,270 sq km water: 500 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Delaware

      Land boundaries: total: 381 km border countries: Malaysia 381 km

      Coastline: 161 km

      Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm or to median line territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: tropical; hot, humid, rainy

      Terrain: flat coastal plain rises to mountains in east; hilly lowland in west

      Elevation extremes: lowest point : South China Sea 0 m highest point: Bukit Pagon 1,850 m

      Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, timber

      Land use: arable land : 1% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 1% forests and woodland: 85% other: 12% (1993 est.)

      Irrigated land: 10 sq km (1993 est.)

      Natural hazards: typhoons, earthquakes, and severe flooding are very rare

      Environment - current issues: NA

      Environment - international agreements: party to : Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

      Geography - note: close to vital sea lanes through South China Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans; two parts physically separated by Malaysia; almost an enclave of Malaysia

      @Brunei:People

      Population: 307,616 (July 1997 est.)

      Age structure: 0–14 years: 33% (male 52,239; female 50,025) 15–64 years: 63% (male 101,326; female 90,941) 65 years and over: 4% (male 7,207; female 5,878) (July 1997 est.)

      Population growth rate: 2.5% (1997 est.)

      Birth rate: 25.2 births/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Death rate: 5.13 deaths/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Net migration rate: 4.89 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15–64 years: 1.11 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 1.23 male(s)/female total population: 1.1 male(s)/female (1997 est.)

      Infant mortality rate: 23.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.)

      Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.54 years male: 70 years female: 73.16 years (1997 est.)

      Total fertility rate: 3.37 children born/woman (1997 est.)

      Nationality: noun: Bruneian(s) adjective: Bruneian

      Ethnic groups: Malay 64%, Chinese 20%, other 16%

      Religions: Muslim (official) 63%, Buddhism 14%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs and other 15% (1981)

      Languages: Malay (official), English, Chinese

      Literacy: definition : age 15 and over can read and write total population: 88.2% male: 92.6% female: 83.4% (1995 est.)

      @Brunei:Government

      Country name: conventional long form: Negara Brunei Darussalam conventional short form: Brunei

      Data code: BX

      Government type: constitutional sultanate

      National capital: Bandar Seri Begawan

      Administrative divisions: 4 districts (daerah-daerah, singular - daerah); Belait, Brunei and Muara, Temburong, Tutong

      Independence: 1 January 1984 (from UK)

      National holiday: National Day, 23 February (1984)

      Constitution: 29 September 1959 (some provisions suspended under a

       State of Emergency since December 1962, others since independence on 1

       January 1984)

      Legal system: based on Islamic law

      Suffrage: none

      Executive branch: chief of state: Sultan and Prime Minister