| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $1.94 billion (2002 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
-1.5% (2002 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $28,000 (2002 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: NA
industry: NA
services: NA |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
3.2% (2002 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
41,500 (1997 est.) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
most employment is in wholesale and retail trade and repair, followed by hotels and restaurants; oil refining |
| Budget : |
revenues: $135.8 million
expenditures: $147 million, including capital expenditures of NA (2000) |
| Industries : |
tourism, transshipment facilities, oil refining |
| Electricity - Production : |
531.9 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
494.7 million kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
aloes; livestock; fish |
| Exports : |
$128 million f.o.b. (including oil reexports) (2002 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment |
| Exports - Partners : |
Netherlands 33.3%, Colombia 13.1%, Netherlands Antilles 11.9%, Panama 11.9%, Venezuela 10.7%, US 8.3% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$841 million f.o.b. (2002 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery and electrical equipment, crude oil for refining and reexport, chemicals; foodstuffs |
| Imports - Partners : |
US 55.1%, Netherlands 13%, Netherlands Antilles 3.1% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$285 million (1996) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$26 million (1995); note - the Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and Suriname in 1996 |
| Currency : |
Aruban guilder/florin (AWG) |
| Currency Code : |
AWG |
| Exchange Rates : |
Aruban guilders/florins per US dollar - 1.79 (2003), 1.79 (2002), 1.79 (2001), 1.79 (2000), 1.79 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
Calendar Year |
