Economy - overview:
Financial services - banking, fund management, insurance - account for about 23% of employment and about 55% of total income in this tiny, prosperous Channel Island economy. Tourism, manufacturing, and horticulture, mainly tomatoes and cut flowers, have been declining. Financial services, construction, retail, and the public sector have been growing. Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The evolving economic integration of the EU nations is changing the environment under which Guernsey operates.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$2.742 billion (2005)
country comparison to the world: 182
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GDP (official exchange rate):
$2.742 billion (2005)
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GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2005 est.)
country comparison to the world: 112
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GDP - per capita (PPP):
$44,600 (2005)
country comparison to the world: 15
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GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 3%
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industry: 10%
services: 87% (2000)

Labor force:
31,470 (March 2006)
country comparison to the world: 205
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Unemployment rate:
0.9% (March 2006 est.)
country comparison to the world: 4
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Population below poverty line:
NA%
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Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
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highest 10%: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $563.6 million
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expenditures: $530.9 million (2005 est.)

Taxes and other revenues:
20.6% of GDP (2005)
country comparison to the world: 157
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Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-):
1.2% of GDP (2005)
country comparison to the world: 26
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Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.4% (June 2006)
country comparison to the world: 97
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Agriculture - products:
tomatoes, greenhouse flowers, sweet peppers, eggplant, fruit; Guernsey cattle

Industries:
tourism, banking

Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
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Exports:
$NA
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Exports - commodities:
tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables

Imports:
$NA
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Imports - commodities:
coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment

Debt - external:
$NA
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Exchange rates:
Guernsey pound