JAMAICA: ECONOMIC INDICATORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00363R000200230010-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Content Type: MISC

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Now change in scale
Real GDP Growth
Percent
Consumer Price Growth
i'crunt
Debt Sersice Ratio
Percent
L..J
I977 78 '4 So 31 S2.1
20
F5--- - -
10 1
5 ~ I I f
Exports, by Sector, 1981
Percent Agriculture
Other -//'
l3ausite Production
Million metric tuns
^ Ilausite production
L] Alumina productionb
_ I 1 1
1977 78 79
I Estimated.
b Bauaue equi.alent of alumina production.
Jamaica: Socioeconomic Comparisons
Note change in scale
Adult Literacy, 1980
Percent
Haiti
Guatemala
Honduras
23
Dominican Republic
Jamaica
Per Capitia GDP, 1981
US S
Haiti
Honduras
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Jamaica
Agriculture as a Share of GDP, 1981
Percent
Jamaica
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
19
Imports as a Share of GDP, 1981
Percent
Guatemala
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Jamaica
123
-723
Western Official Assistance Per Capita. 1981
1JS S
Guatemala
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Jamaica
C
690
_~31
132
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Jamaica: Foreign Financial Gap
1980
1981
1982
1983h
Current account balance
50
-140
- 166
-337
-427
Trade balancc
81
- -
-370
-65 -75
-323
-477
-
Mcrch
d
-
403
an
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,arts,f.o.b.
831
818 9
63
974
726
750
Bauxitc!zlumina
438
523 734
758
483
Ntcrchandi,
l
f
500
c
ri'orts,
.o.b.
750
883 1,038
1,297
1
203
1
150
Net services and transfers
-131
-75
-9
-
,
,
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Debt amortization
'---
1
_ -14
- ---
50
30
30
1
24
113 91
140
182
340
Financial gap
-_174
-253 -257
-477
-609
-719
Capita! account
-
-
-
Net direct investment
-27
-26 28
-12
20
Medium- a
d
l
n
long-term
oans
113
138 2
16
210
557
Net short-term capital, including errors
99
146
and emissions
? Estimated.
b Projected. Excludes debt rescheduling now under negotiation.
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Lambert Conformal Projection
Standard parallels 17'20' and 22'40'
Scale 1:1.200.030
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