The 2010 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

(31 December 2008) country comparison to the world: 109 $183.5 million (31 December 2007)

      $188.4 million (31 December 2006)

      Agriculture - products:

      vegetables, fruit; livestock; turtle farming

      Industries:

      tourism, banking, insurance and finance, construction, construction materials, furniture

      Industrial production growth rate:

      NA%

      Electricity - production:

      546 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 156

      Electricity - consumption:

      507.8 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 161

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2008 est.)

      Oil - production:

      0 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 197

      Oil - consumption:

      3,000 bbl/day (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 177

      Oil - exports:

      0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 204

      Oil - imports:

      3,294 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 167

      Oil - proved reserves:

      0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 193

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 187

      Natural gas - consumption:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 199

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 192

      Natural gas - imports:

      0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 193

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.) country comparison to the world: 194

      Exports:

      $13.8 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 210 $2.52 million (2004)

      Exports - commodities:

      turtle products, manufactured consumer goods

      Imports:

      $876.5 million (2008) country comparison to the world: 173 $866.9 million (2004)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, manufactured goods, fuels

      Debt - external:

      $70 million (1996) country comparison to the world: 184

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $NA

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $NA

      Exchange rates:

      Caymanian dollars (KYD) per US dollar - NA (2007), 0.8496 (2006)

      Communications ::Cayman Islands

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      38,000 (2009) country comparison to the world: 170

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      33,800 (2004) country comparison to the world: 201

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: reasonably good system

      domestic: liberalization of telecom market in 2003; introduction of competition in the mobile-cellular market in 2004

      international: country code - 1–345; landing points for the MAYA-1,

       Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS), and the Cayman-Jamaica Fiber

       System submarine cables that provide links to the US and parts of

       Central and South America; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat

       (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

      Broadcast media:

      4 television stations; cable and satellite subscription services offer a variety of international programming; government-owned Radio Cayman operates 2 networks broadcasting on 5 stations; 10 privately-owned radio stations operate alongside Radio Cayman (2007)

      Internet country code:

      .ky

      Internet hosts:

      21,910 (2010) country comparison to the world: 108

      Internet users:

      23,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 188

      Transportation ::Cayman Islands

      Airports:

      3 (2010) country comparison to the world: 193

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 2

      1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2010)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

      total: 1

      914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2010)

      Roadways:

      total: 785 km country comparison to the world: 186 paved: 785 km (2007)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 113 country comparison to the world: 46 by type: bulk carrier 20, cargo 3, chemical tanker 56, liquefied gas 1, petroleum tanker 8, refrigerated cargo 10, vehicle carrier 15

      foreign-owned: 99 (Germany 6, Greece 11, Italy 6, Japan 19, Switzerland 1, UK 2, US 54) (2010)

      Ports and terminals:

      Cayman Brac, George Town

      Military ::Cayman Islands

      Military branches:

      no regular military forces; Royal Cayman Islands Police Force (2010)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 12,108 (2010 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 9,860

      females age 16–49: 10,287 (2010 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 326

      female: 347 (2010 est.)

      Military - note:

      defense is the responsibility of the UK

      Transnational Issues ::Cayman Islands

      Disputes - international:

      none

      Illicit drugs:

      major offshore financial center; vulnerable to drug transshipment to the US and Europe (2008)

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