The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      GDP - real growth rate:

       1.8% (2001 est.)

      GDP - per capita:

       purchasing power parity - $20,000 (2001 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector:

       agriculture: NA

       industry: NA

       services: NA

      Population below poverty line:

       NA

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA

       highest 10%: NA

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       1.6% (1999 est.)

      Labor force:

       24,500 (1999 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

       10% (2000 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $646 million

       expenditures: $629 million, including capital expenditures of $85

       million (1999)

      Agriculture - products:

       forage crops, garden and greenhouse vegetables; sheep, reindeer;

       fish

      Industries:

       fish processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut), handicrafts,

       hides and skins, small shipyards, mining

      Industrial production growth rate:

       NA

      Electricity - production:

       245 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       227.9 million kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       3,700 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Exports:

       $388 million f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       fish and fish products 94% (prawns 63%)

      Exports - partners:

       Denmark 64.7%, Japan 14.2%, China 4.4% (2003)

      Imports:

       $445 million c.i.f. (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food,

       petroleum products

      Imports - partners:

       Denmark 82.6%, Norway 7.5%, Sweden 3.5% (2003)

      Debt - external:

       $25 million (1999)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $380 million subsidy from Denmark (1997)

      Currency:

       Danish krone (DKK) is the official legal tender.

      Currency code:

       DKK

      Exchange rates:

       Danish kroner per US dollar - 6.5877 (2003), 7.8947 (2002), 8.323

       (2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Greenland

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       26,000 (2001)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       16,747 (2001)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: adequate domestic and international service

       provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally

       digitalized in 1995

       domestic: microwave radio relay and satellite

       international: country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 12

       Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios:

       30,000 (1998 est.)

      Television broadcast stations:

       1 publicly-owned station, some local low-power stations, and three

       AFRTS (US Air Force) stations (1997)

      Televisions:

       30,000 (1998 est.)

      Internet country code:

       .gl

      Internet hosts:

       2,642 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       1 (2000)

      Internet users:

       20,000 (2002)

      Transportation Greenland

      Highways:

       total: NA (there are no roads between towns) (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Aasiaat (Egedesminde), Ilulissat (Jakobshavn), Kangerlussuaq,

       Nanortalik, Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthab), Qaqortoq (Julianehab),

       Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Tasiilaq

      Merchant marine:

       total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,593 GRT/3,640 DWT

       foreign-owned: Denmark 1 (2004 est.)

       by type: cargo 2, passenger 1

      Airports:

       14 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 9 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 5

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 1

       914 to 1,523 m: 2

       under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

      Military Greenland

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Denmark

      Transnational Issues Greenland

      Disputes - international: uncontested dispute between Canada and Denmark over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland

      This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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      @Grenada

      Introduction Grenada

      Background:

       One of the smallest independent countries in the western

       hemisphere, Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19

       October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and

       those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captured the