Status: Overseas territory
Governor: Francis Richards (2003)
Chief Minister: Peter Caruana (1996)
Area: 2.51 sq mi (6.5 sq km)
Population (2005 est.): 27,884 (growth rate: 0.2%); birth rate: 10.9/1000; infant mortality rate: 5.1/1000; life expectancy: 79.7; density per sq mi: 11,111
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: $136 million (2002): (principally reexports) petroleum 51%, manufactured goods 41%, other 8%. Imports: $1.743 billion (c.i.f., 2002): fuels, manufactured goods, and foodstuffs. Major trading partners: Germany, France, UK, Turkmenistan, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Italy, Netherlands, Romania (2003).
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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