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| - 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
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