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EconomySwaziland
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Economy - overview:
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In this small, landlocked economy, subsistence agriculture occupies approximately 70% of the population. The manufacturing sector has diversified since the mid-1980s. Sugar and wood pulp remain important foreign exchange earners. In 2007, the sugar industry increased efficiency and diversification efforts, in response to a 17% decline in EU sugar prices. Mining has declined in importance in recent years with only coal and quarry stone mines remaining active. Surrounded by South Africa, except for a short border with Mozambique, Swaziland is heavily dependent on South Africa from which it receives more than nine-tenths of its imports and to which it sends 60% of its exports. Swaziland's currency is pegged to the South African rand, subsuming Swaziland's monetary policy to South Africa. Customs duties from the Southern African Customs Union, which may equal as much as 70% of government revenue this year, and worker remittances from South Africa substantially supplement domestically earned income. Swaziland is not poor enough to merit an IMF program; however, the country is struggling to reduce the size of the civil service and control costs at public enterprises. The government is trying to improve the atmosphere for foreign investment. With an estimated 40% unemployment rate, Swaziland's need to increase the number and size of small and medium enterprises and attract foreign direct investment is acute. Overgrazing, soil depletion, drought, and sometimes floods persist as problems for the future. More than one-fourth of the population needed emergency food aid in 2006-07 because of drought, and nearly two-fifths of the adult population has been infected by HIV/AIDS.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$5.703 billion (2008 est.)
$5.553 billion (2007)
$5.366 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$5,100 (2008 est.)
$4,900 (2007 est.)
$4,700 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$2.968 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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2.7% (2008 est.)
3.5% (2007 est.)
2.8% (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 11.9%
industry: 45.1%
services: 43% (2008 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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19.7% of GDP (2008 est.)

Population below poverty line:
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69% (2006)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 40.7% (2001)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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50.4 (2001)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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12.7% (2008 est.)

Central bank discount rate:
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11% (31 December 2007)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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13.17% (31 December 2007)

Stock of money:
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$244.8 million (31 December 2007)

Stock of money - per capita:
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218 USD per capita

Stock of quasi money:
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$529.4 million (31 December 2007)

Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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472 USD per capita

Stock of domestic credit:
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$204.1 million (31 December 2007)

Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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182 USD per capita

Labor force:
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300,000 (2006)

Labor force participation rate:
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26.69 % of population

Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%

Unemployment rate:
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40% (2006 est.)

Budget:
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revenues: $1.215 billion
expenditures: $1.155 billion (2008 est.)

Budget revenues per capita:
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1,082 USD per capita

Public debt:
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void

Industries:
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coal, wood pulp, sugar, soft drink concentrates, textiles and apparel

Industrial production growth rate:
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1.1% (2008 est.)

Electricity - production:
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460 million kWh (2007)

Electricity - production per capita:
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410 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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1.2 billion kWh (2007)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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1,068 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2007)

Electricity - imports:
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872 million kWh; note - electricity supplied by South Africa (2007)

Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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void

Oil - consumption:
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3,490 bbl/day (2006 est.)

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

Oil - exports:
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0 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:
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3,530 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:
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0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

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

Natural gas - production per capita:
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void

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

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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void

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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0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
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sugarcane, cotton, corn, tobacco, rice, citrus, pineapples, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep

Current account balance:
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-$10 million (2008 est.)

Current account balance - per capita:
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-8 USD per capita

Exports:
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$1.83 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Exports per capita:
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1,629 USD per capita

Exports - commodities:
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soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn, refrigerators, citrus and canned fruit

Exports - partners:
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void

Imports:
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$1.978 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Imports per capita:
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1,760 USD per capita

Imports - commodities:
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motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum products, chemicals

Imports - partners:
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void

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$997 million (31 December 2008 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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888 USD per capita

Debt - external:
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$548 million (31 December 2008 est.)

Debt - external - per capita:
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488 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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void

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$NA

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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void

Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$203.1 million (31 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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181 USD per capita

Economic aid - donor:
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void

Economic aid - recipient:
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$46.03 million (2005)

Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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41 USD per capita

Currency (code):
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lilangeni (SZL)

Exchange rates:
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emalangeni per US dollar - 7.75 (2008 est.), 7.4 (2007), 6.85 (2006), 6.3593 (2005), 6.4597 (2004)

Fiscal year:
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1 April - 31 March
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