!!!Turks and Caicos Islands: Economy
The Turks and Caicos economy is based on tourism, offshore financial services, and fishing. Most capital goods and food for domestic consumption are imported. The US is the leading source of tourists, accounting for more than three-quarters of the more than 1 million visitors that arrived in 2013. Three-quarters of the visitors came by ship. Major sources of government revenue also include fees from offshore financial activities and customs receipts.
!!Economic Facts
||GDP (purchasing power parity)|$632 million (2007 est.) \\ $568.3 million (2006 est.)
||GDP (official exchange rate)|$NA
||GDP - real growth rate|11.2% (2007 est.)
||GDP - per capita (PPP)|$29,100 (2007 est.)
||GDP - composition, by end use|''household consumption'': 49.2% \\ ''government consumption'': 20.4% \\ ''investment in fixed capital'': 26.7% \\ ''investment in inventories'': -0.1% \\ ''exports of goods and services'': 47.7% \\ ''imports of goods and services'': -44% (2016 est.) \\ 
||GDP - composition, by sector of origin|''agriculture'': 0.5% \\ ''industry'': 9.7% \\ ''services'': 89.8% (2016 est.) \\ 
||Agriculture - products|corn, beans, cassava (manioc, tapioca), citrus fruits; fish
||Industries|tourism, offshore financial services
||Industrial production growth rate|3% (2016 est.)
||Labor force|4,848 (1990 est.)
||Labor force - by occupation| \\ ''__note__'': about 33% in government and 20% in agriculture and fishing; significant numbers in tourism, financial, and other services \\ 
||Unemployment rate|10% (1997 est.)
||Population below poverty line|NA%
||Household income or consumption by percentage share|''lowest 10%'': NA% \\ ''highest 10%'': NA% \\ 
||Budget|''revenues'': $225.6 million \\ ''expenditures'': $187.2 million (2016 est.) \\ 
||Fiscal year|calendar year
||Inflation rate (consumer prices)|2.2% (2016 est.) \\ 1% (2015 est.)
||Exports|$24.77 million (2008 est.)
||Exports - commodities|lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells
||Imports|$591.3 million (2008 est.)
||Imports - commodities|food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures, construction materials
||Debt - external|$NA
||Exchange rates|the US dollar is used