Economic Statistics[]
Currency: 1 Wesmerité Pound £ = 100 Shillings
Exchange rates: 1.00 ChC = 3.75 Wesmerité Pounds (£) (Fixed exchange rate); Bank of Merité, Wesmerité's Reserve Bank, has tight monetary controls over the Pound.
GDP: Purchasing power parity - £ 2,878.5 billion = CCr$ 767.6 billion (306 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 3.1% (306 est.)
GDP - per capita: £ 59,418 = CCr$15,845 (306 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 15.1% industry: 35% services: 49.9% (304 est.)
Population below poverty line: 17% (306 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 6.1% highest 10%: 21.1% (306 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.8% (304 est.)
Labor force: 31.2 million (305 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: managerial and professional 16.4%, technical, sales and administrative support 19.1%, services 14.4%, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and crafts 35%, farming, forestry, and fishing 15.1% (300) note: figures exclude unemployed.
Unemployment rate: 7.3%; (305)
Budget: revenues: £ 863.55 billion expenditures: £ 1030.8 billion
Industries: Industrial: machinery, construction, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, vehicles, aviation, advanced electronics, consumer appliances, armaments.
Industrial production growth rate: 1.8%
Electricity - production: 257.8 billion kWh (304)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 74.5% hydro: 25.3% nuclear: 0.0% other: 0.2% (300)
Electricity - consumption: 245.8 billion kWh (304)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (304)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (304)
Agriculture - products: Wheat, Barley, Canola, Wine, Fruit, Potatoes, Livestock, Poultry, Eggs, Pork, Dairy, Fish.
Exports: £ 100.54 billion (f.o.b., 304 est.)
Exports - commodities: Automobiles, Consumer Appliances, Processed Foods, Wine, Glass, Beverages, Chemicals.
Exports - partners: Cimera 41%, Cruisana 15%, Somery 11.5%, Draconia & Terra Extremis 10%, Aethelnia 6%, Rest of Vex 16.5% (304 est.)
Imports: £ 215.2 billion (304 est.)
Imports - commodities: Textiles, Petroleum, Foodstuffs, Bauxite, Electronic Consumer goods, pharmaceuticals
Imports - partners: Cimera 27%, Feniz 20%, Utania 20%, Somery 8%, Draconia & Terra Extremis 8%, Cruisana 7%, Rest of Vex 10%.
Debt - Internal: Government Only £ 325 billion (304 est.)
Debt - external: Government Only £ 45.5 billion (304 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: None
Fiscal year: March 31st
Communications[]
Telephones - main lines in use: 70.509 million (305)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,567,995 (305)
Telephone system: antiquated rotary system being modernized domestic: equal mix of buried cables, microwave radio relay, pole lines international: International Telephone Code: 189 Coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Merstat Baker
Radio broadcast stations: AM 319, FM 131, shortwave 5 (304)
Radios: 38.65 million (301 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 128 (plus 1,523 repeaters) (302)
Televisions: 17.78 million (301 est.)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 100 (301)
Transportation[]
Railways: total: 17,386 km standard gauge: 16,826 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 560 km 0.760-m gauge
Highways: total: 351,913 km paved: 301,443 km (including 3,358 km of expressways) unpaved: 51,570 km (304 est.)
Waterways: Coria river, Timon's canal
Pipelines: none
Ports and harbours: Port Angela, Scona Brea, Innisfail, Portmerion