The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

(2007 est.)

      GDP (official exchange rate):

      $36.4 billion (2007 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate:

      8.5% (2007 est.)

      GDP - per capita (PPP):

      $6,600 (2007 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector:

      agriculture: 11.7% industry: 23.8% services: 64.4% (2007 est.)

      Labor force:

      4.027 million (2007 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation:

      agriculture: 17% industry: 24.3% services: 58.7% (1998 est.)

      Unemployment rate:

      15.6% (2007 est.)

      Population below poverty line:

      42.2% (2004)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

      lowest 10%: 1.4% highest 10%: 41.1% (2004)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

      51.6 (2004)

      Investment (gross fixed):

      18.8% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Budget:

      revenues: $7.423 billion expenditures: $7.259 billion (2007 est.)

      Fiscal year:

      calendar year

      Public debt:

      41% of GDP (2007 est.)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

      6.1% (2007 est.)

      Commercial bank prime lending rate:

      15.83% (31 December 2007)

      Stock of money:

      $4.074 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of quasi money:

      $5.631 billion (31 December 2007)

      Stock of domestic credit:

      $15.92 billion (31 December 2007)

      Agriculture - products:

      sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs

      Industries:

      tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco

      Industrial production growth rate:

      2.4% (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production:

      13.37 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - consumption:

      11.81 billion kWh (2006 est.)

      Electricity - exports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - imports:

      0 kWh (2007 est.)

      Electricity - production by source:

      fossil fuel: 92% hydro: 7.6% nuclear: 0% other: 0.4% (2001)

      Oil - production:

      12 bbl/day (2004)

      Oil - consumption:

      117,300 bbl/day (2006 est.)

      Oil - exports:

      0 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - imports:

      116,600 bbl/day (2005)

      Oil - proved reserves:

      0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

      Natural gas - production:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

      250 million cu m (2006 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

      0 cu m (2007 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

      239.8 million cu m (2005)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

      0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

      Current account balance:

      -$2.231 billion (2007 est.)

      Exports:

      $7.237 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

      ferronickel, sugar, gold, silver, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, meats, consumer goods

      Exports - partners:

      US 66.4%, Belgium 3.7%, Finland 3.2% (2007)

      Imports:

      $13.82 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

      foodstuffs, petroleum, cotton and fabrics, chemicals and pharmaceuticals

      Imports - partners:

      US 46%, Venezuela 8.1%, Mexico 5.9%, Colombia 4.7% (2007)

      Economic aid - recipient:

      $76.99 million (2005)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

      $2.562 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Debt - external:

      $10.21 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:

      $12.75 billion (2007 est.)

      Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:

      $59 million (2007 est.)

      Market value of publicly traded shares:

      $NA

      Currency (code):

      Dominican peso (DOP)

      Currency code:

      DOP

      Exchange rates:

      Dominican pesos (DOP) per US dollar - 33.113 (2007), 33.406 (2006), 30.409 (2005), 42.12 (2004), 30.831 (2003)

      Communications

       Dominican Republic

      Telephones - main lines in use:

      907,000 (2007)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

      5.513 million (2007)

      Telephone system:

      general assessment: relatively efficient system based on island-wide microwave radio relay network domestic: fixed telephone line density is about 10 per 100 persons; multiple providers of mobile cellular service with a subscribership of roughly 60 per 100 persons international: country code - 1–809; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and US; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)

      Radio broadcast stations:

      AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998)

      Radios:

      1.44 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      25 (2003)

      Televisions: