Econom�a - descripci�n: Financial services - banking, fund management, insurance, etc. - account for about 55% of total income in this tiny Channel Island economy. Tourism, manufacturing, and horticulture, mainly tomatoes and cut flowers, have been declining. Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular tax haven. The evolving economic integration of the EU nations is changing the rules of the game under which Guernsey operates.

Producto Bruto Interno (PBI): purchasing power parity - $1.15 billion (1997 est.)

PBI - Indice de Incremento real: 2.3% (1997 est.)

PBI - por capital: purchasing power parity - $18,100 (1997 est.)

PBI - Composici�n por Sector:
agriculture: 4%
industry: 10%
services: 86% (1999 est.)

Poblaci�n bajo linea de pobertad: NA%

Ingreso en casa o porcentage de consumci�n:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Indice de Inflaci�n (precios del consumidor): 4.7% (1997 est.)

Fuerza Laboral: NA

Indice de desempleo: 0.5% (1997 est.)

Presupuesto:
revenues: $300.8 million
expenditures: $298.1 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)

Industrias: tourism, banking

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricidad - Producci�n: NA kWh

Electricidad - producci�n por fuente:
fossil fuel: NA%
hydro: NA%
nuclear: NA%
other: NA%

Electricidad - consumci�n: NA kWh

Electricidad - exportaciones: NA kWh

Electricidad - importaciones: NA kWh

Agricultura - productos: tomatoes, greenhouse flowers, sweet peppers, eggplant, fruit; Guernsey cattle

Exportaciones: $NA

Exporationes - comodidades: tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables

Exportaciones - socios: UK (regarded as internal trade)

Importaciones: $NA

Importaciones - comodidades: coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment

Importaciones - socios: UK (regarded as internal trade)

Deuda - externa: $NA

Ayuda economica - recipiente: $NA

Moneda: 1 Guernsey pound = 100 pence

Indice de intercambio: Guernsey pounds per US$1 - 0.6092 (January 2000), 0.6180 (1999), 0.6037 (1998), 0.6106 (1997), 0.6403 (1996), 0.6335 (1995); note - the Guernsey pound is at par with the British pound

A�o Fiscal: calendar year