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| Economy - overview: |
Tourism, the mainstay of Andorra's tiny, well-to-do economy, accounts for roughly 80% of GDP. An estimated 9 million tourists visit annually, attracted by Andorra's duty-free status and by its summer and winter resorts. Andorra's comparative advantage has recently eroded as the economies of neighboring France and Spain have been opened up, providing broader availability of goods and lower tariffs. The banking sector, with its "tax haven" status, also contributes substantially to the economy. Agricultural production is limited by a scarcity of arable land, and most food has to be imported. The principal livestock activity is sheep raising. Manufacturing output consists mainly of cigarettes, cigars, and furniture. Andorra is a member of the EU Customs Union and is treated as an EU member for trade in manufactured goods (no tariffs) and as a non-EU member for agricultural products.
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| GDP: |
purchasing power parity - $1.2 billion (1996 est.)
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| GDP - real growth rate: |
NA%
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| GDP - per capita: |
purchasing power parity - $18,000 (1996 est.)
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| GDP - composition by sector: |
agriculture:
NA%
industry:
NA%
services:
NA%
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| Population below poverty line: |
NA%
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| Household income or consumption by percentage share: |
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
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| Inflation rate (consumer prices): |
1.62% (1998)
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| Labor force: |
30,787 salaried employees (1998)
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| Labor force - by occupation: |
agriculture 1%, industry 21%, services 78% (1998)
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| Budget: |
revenues:
$385 million
expenditures:
$342 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997)
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| Industries: |
tourism (particularly skiing), cattle raising, timber, tobacco, banking
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| Industrial production growth rate: |
NA%
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| Electricity - production by source: |
fossil fuel:
NA%
hydro:
NA%
nuclear:
NA%
other:
NA%
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| Electricity - consumption: |
NA kWh
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| Electricity - exports: |
NA kWh
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| Electricity - imports: |
NA kWh
note:
most electricity supplied by Spain and France; Andorra generates a small amount of hydropower
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| Agriculture - products: |
small quantities of tobacco, rye, wheat, barley, oats, vegetables; sheep
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| Exports: |
$58 million (f.o.b., 1998)
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| Exports - commodities: |
tobacco products, furniture
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| Exports - partners: |
France 34%, Spain 58% (1998)
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| Imports: |
$1.077 billion (c.i.f., 1998)
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| Imports - commodities: |
consumer goods, food, electricity
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| Imports - partners: |
Spain 48%, France 35%, US 2.3% (1998)
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| Economic aid - recipient: |
none
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| Currency: |
French franc (FRF); Spanish peseta (ESP); euro (EUR)
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| Currency code: |
FRF; ESP; EUR
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| Exchange rates: |
euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); French francs per US dollar - 5.8995 (1998), 5.8367 (1997), 5.1155 (1996); Spanish pesetas per US dollar - 149.40 (1998), 146.41 (1997), 126.66 (1996)
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| Fiscal year: |
calendar year
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