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Status: Overseas territory
Governor: Francis Richards (2003)
Chief Minister: Peter Caruana
(1996)
Total area: 2 sq mi (6 sq km)
Population (2008 est.): 28,002 (growth
rate: 0.1%); birth rate: 10.7/1000; infant mortality rate: 4.9/1000;
life expectancy: 80.0; density per sq mi: 4,667
Monetary unit: Gibraltar pound
Literacy rate: above 80% (2003
est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2000
est.): $769 million; per capita $27,900. Real growth rate:
n.a. Inflation: 1.5% (1998). Unemployment: 2%
(2001 est.). Arable land: 0%. Agriculture: none.
Labor force: 14,800 (including non-Gibraltar laborers);
services 60%, industry 40%, agriculture negl. Industries:
tourism, banking and finance, ship repairing, tobacco.
Natural resources: negl. Exports: $271 million f.o.b.
(2004 est.): (principally reexports) petroleum 51%, manufactured
goods 41%, other 8%. Imports: $2.967 billion c.i.f. (2004
est.): fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs. Major trading
partners: France, Spain, Turkmenistan, Switzerland, Germany, UK,
Greece, Russia, Italy, U.S., Sweden (2004).
Communications: Telephones: main lines
in use: 19,000 (1997); mobile cellular: 1,620 (1997). Radio
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998). Radios:
37,000 (1997). Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus
three low-power repeaters) (1997). Televisions: 10,000
(1997). Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 2 (2000).
Internet users: n.a.
Transportation: Railways: total: n.a.
km. Highways: total: 29 km; paved: 29 km; unpaved: 0 km
(2002). Ports and harbors: Gibraltar. Airports: 1
(2002).
International disputes:Gibraltar
residents vote overwhelmingly in referendum against “total
shared sovereignty” arrangement worked out between Spain and
UK to change 300-year rule over colony.
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