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EconomyIsrael
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Economy - overview:
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Israel has a technologically advanced market economy with substantial, though diminishing, government participation. It depends on imports of crude oil, grains, raw materials, and military equipment. Despite limited natural resources, Israel has intensively developed its agricultural and industrial sectors over the past 20 years. Israel imports substantial quantities of grain but is largely self-sufficient in other agricultural products. Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) are the leading exports. Israel usually posts sizable trade deficits, which are covered by large transfer payments from abroad and by foreign loans. Roughly half of the government's external debt is owed to the US, its major source of economic and military aid. Israel's GDP, after contracting slightly in 2001 and 2002 due to the Palestinian conflict and troubles in the high-technology sector, has grown by about 5% per year since 2003. The economy grew an estimated 4.2% in 2008, slowed by the global financial crisis. The government's prudent fiscal policy and structural reforms over the past few years have helped to induce strong foreign investment, tax revenues, and private consumption, setting the economy on a solid growth path.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$200.7 billion (2008 est.)
$193.2 billion (2007)
$183.3 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$28,200 (2008 est.)
$27,600 (2007 est.)
$26,700 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$188.7 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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3.9% (2008 est.)
5.4% (2007 est.)
5.1% (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 2.7%
industry: 31.7%
services: 65.6% (2008 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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18% of GDP (2008 est.)

Population below poverty line:
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21.6%
note: Israel's poverty line is $7.30 per person per day (2005)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 2.6%
highest 10%: 24.2% (2007)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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38.6 (2005)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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4.7% (2008 est.)

Central bank discount rate:
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4% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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6.27% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:
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$15.36 billion (31 December 2006)

Stock of money - per capita:
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2,124 USD per capita

Stock of quasi money:
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$154.3 billion (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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21,331 USD per capita

Stock of domestic credit:
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$113.4 billion (31 December 2006)

Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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15,677 USD per capita

Labor force:
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2.95 million (2008 est.)

Labor force participation rate:
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40.78 % of population

Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 2%
industry: 16%
services: 82% (30 September 2008)

Unemployment rate:
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6.1% (2008 est.)

Budget:
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revenues: $68.44 billion
expenditures: $70.06 billion (2008 est.)

Budget revenues per capita:
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9,462 USD per capita

Public debt:
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75.7% of GDP (2008 est.)

Industries:
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high-technology projects (including aviation, communications, computer-aided design and manufactures, medical electronics, fiber optics), wood and paper products, potash and phosphates, food, beverages, and tobacco, caustic soda, cement, construction, metals products, chemical products, plastics, diamond cutting, textiles, footwear

Industrial production growth rate:
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4.1% (2008 est.)

Electricity - production:
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48.7 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - production per capita:
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6,733 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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44.74 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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6,185 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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1.844 billion kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2007 est.)

Oil - production:
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5,966 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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825 bbl/day per capita

Oil - consumption:
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232,300 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - consumption - per capita:
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11.72 bbl/year per capita

Oil - exports:
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82,910 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:
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334,300 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:
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1.94 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:
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2.35 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - production per capita:
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325 cu m per capita

Natural gas - consumption:
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2.27 billion cu m (2006 est.)

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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314 cu m per capita

Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
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30.44 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)

Agriculture - products:
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citrus, vegetables, cotton; beef, poultry, dairy products

Current account balance:
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$1.893 billion (2008 est.)

Current account balance - per capita:
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262 USD per capita

Exports:
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$54.16 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Exports per capita:
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7,488 USD per capita

Exports - commodities:
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machinery and equipment, software, cut diamonds, agricultural products, chemicals, textiles and apparel

Exports - partners:
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US 35%, Belgium 7.5%, Hong Kong 5.8% (2007)

Imports:
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$62.52 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Imports per capita:
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8,643 USD per capita

Imports - commodities:
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raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, grain, consumer goods

Imports - partners:
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US 13.9%, Belgium 7.9%, Germany 6.2%, China 6.1%, Switzerland 5.1%, UK 4.7%, Italy 4.1% (2007)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$38.66 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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5,345 USD per capita

Debt - external:
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$91.25 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

Debt - external - per capita:
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12,615 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$68.06 billion (2008 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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9,409 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$51.94 billion (2008 est.)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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7,181 USD per capita

Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$236.4 billion (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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32,681 USD per capita

Economic aid - donor:
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void

Economic aid - recipient:
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$240 million from US (FY06)

Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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34 USD per capita

Currency (code):
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new Israeli shekel (ILS); note - NIS is the currency abbreviation; ILS is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) code for the NIS

Exchange rates:
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new Israeli shekels (ILS) per US dollar - 3.56 (2008 est.), 4.14 (2007), 4.4565 (2006), 4.4877 (2005), 4.482 (2004)

Fiscal year:
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calendar year
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