Economy of Caselonia

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GDP

Purchasing power parity - US$11.408 trillion (April 2005 est.)

GDP Per Capita

R19,814.19 (US$34,009.94 equiv.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

6.7% (2004 est.)

GDP - Composition by Sector

Agriculture: 4.9% Industry: 33.9% Services: 61.2% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed)

19.1% of GDP (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line

1.2% (January 2005 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share

lowest 10%: 5.9% highest 10%: 47% (2001)

Inflation rate (consumer prices)

9.5% (2004 est.)

Labor force

144.71 million (2004 est.) By sector: Agriculture 12.3%, industry 22.7%, services 65% (2002 est.)

Unemployment Rate

2.63% (June 2005 est.)

Budget

Revenues: Approx. R944,394,600,000 (US$1.621 trillion equiv.) Expenditures: R561,626,400,000 (US$964 billion equiv.)

Public Dept

28.2% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture Products

Grain, sugar beets, sunflower seed, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk

Industries

Complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries including radar, missile production, and advanced electronic components, shipbuilding; road and rail transportation equipment; communications equipment; agricultural machinery, tractors, and construction equipment; electric power generating and transmitting equipment; medical and scientific instruments; consumer durables, textiles, foodstuffs, handicrafts

Industrial Production Growth Rate

6.4% (2004 est.)

Electricity

Electricity Production

915 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity Consumption

894.3 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity Exports

20.7 billion kWh (2003)

Electricity Imports

12.65 billion kWh (2002)

Oil

Oil - Production

8.42 million bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - Consumption

2.31 million bbl/day (2003 est.)

Oil - Exports

6.11 million bbl/day (2003)

Oil - Imports

NA

Oil - Proved Reserves

69 billion bbl (2003 est.)

Natural Gas

Natural Gas - Production

578.6 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural Gas - Consumption

578.6 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural Gas - Exports

171 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural Gas - Imports

32.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural Gas - Proved Reserves

47 trillion cu m (2003)

Exports

$162.5 billion (2004 est.)

Exports - Commodities

Petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, wood and wood products, metals, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures

Exports - Partners

Melbournistan 8.4%, Palmbekistan 6.7%, Cherisovia 6.4%, Daemoniata 5.8%, Austrivum 5.7%, Ferrussia 5.4%, Taibei 4.5%, Trotsgrad 3.9% (2004)

Imports

$92.91 billion (2004 est.)

Imports - Commodities

Machinery and equipment, consumer goods, medicines, meat, sugar, semifinished metal products

Imports - Partners

Daemoniata 16.7%, Austrivum 7.1%, Melbournistan 6.7%, Yannia 5.9%, Trotsgrad 5%, Palmbekistan 4.5%, Revionia 4.5% (2004)

Currency

Ruble

Currency Code

R

Exchange Rates

R1 = US$1.7165 (July 2005)

Fiscal Year

Calendar year

Infrastructure

Communications

Telephone System

General Assessment: Caselonia has one of the world's most technologically advanced telecommunications systems; as a result of intensive capital expenditures since the 1980s, the formerly backward system of the rural areas, many dating back to the Great Motherland War, has been modernized and integrated with that of the urban centers. Domestic: Caselonia is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to many foreign countries. International: country code - 79; Caselonia's international service is excellent worldwide, consisting of extensive land and undersea cable facilities as well as earth stations in the Inmarsat, Intelsat, Fuertelsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems (2001).

Telephones - Main Lines In Use

154.35 million (2003)

Telephones - Mobile Cellular

134.8 million (2004)

Broadcast Media

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 51, FM 787, shortwave 14 (2002)

Television Broadcast Stations

1373 (plus 11,042 repeaters) (2005)

Internet Country Code

.cl

Internet Hosts

12,686,119 (2004)

Internet Users

169 million (2003)

Transportation

Railways

Total: 87,157 km Broad Gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km electrified) Narrow Gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Dzhokar Island) Note: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries (2003)

Highways

Total: 537,289 km Paved: 362,133 km Unpaved: 175,156 km (2001)

Waterways

96,000 km Note: 72,000 km system in Caselonia links North Sea, Volga River, Daemonian Gulf, Gulf of Cherisovia, and the Fuerzo-Sabidurian Ocean (2004)

Pipelines

Condensate 122 km; gas 150,007 km; oil 75,539 km; refined products 13,771 km (2004)

Ports & Harbors

Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri, Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen', Novaya Moskva, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov, Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg

Merchant Marine

Total: 1,194 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,521,472 GRT/5,505,118 DWT By type: barge carrier 1, bulk carrier 45, cargo 767, chemical tanker 20, combination ore/oil 48, container 21, passenger 11, passenger/cargo 8, petroleum tanker 213, refrigerated cargo 46, roll on/roll off 12, specialized tanker 2 Foreign-owned: 56 (Cherisovia 2, Taibei 1, Gesamtkuntswerk 2, Revionia 1, Ferrussia 18, Ferettatia 3, New Preussen 1, Unidos 1, Daemoniata 28, Austrivum 10, Yannia 2, Trotsgrad 4, Melbournistan 17) Registered in other countries: 326 (2005)

Airports

2,586 (2004 est.)

Airports - With Paved Runways

total: 577 over 3,047 m: 55 2,438 to 3,047 m: 197 1,524 to 2,437 m: 128 914 to 1,523 m: 98 under 914 m: 99 (2004 est.)

Airports - With Unpaved Runways

total: 2,009 over 3,047 m: 14 2,438 to 3,047 m: 30 1,524 to 2,437 m: 111 914 to 1,523 m: 257 under 914 m: 1,597 (2004 est.)

Heliports

36 (2004 est.)