Marketing Lebanese Wine
...0-14 years: 26.2% (male 525,199/female 504,240)
15-64 years: 66.7% (male 1,255,624/female 1,361,265)
65 years and over: 7.1% (male 125,904/female 153,270) (2007 est.)
Median age: total: 28.3 years
Male: 27.2 years
Female: 29.5 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.198% (2007 est.)
GDP (purchasing power parity): $40.65 billion (2007 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): $21.58 billion (2007 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 0.3% (2007 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,400 (2007 est.)
GNP (Gross National Product), 2005 : 22.12 billion dollars
GNP per capita, 2005 : 6186 dollars
Industry: 18.4%
Services: 76.4% (2007 est.)
Labor force: 1.5 million
Note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers (2005 est.)
Unemployment rate: 20% (2006 est.)
Population below poverty line: 28% (1999 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.6% (2007 est.)
Investment (gross fixed): 19.4% of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget: revenues: $6.116 billion
Expenditures: $9.421 billion (2007 est.)
Public debt: 188% of GDP (2007 est.)
Current account balance: -$3.337 billion (2007 est.)
Exports: $3.099 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - partners: Syria 26.8%, UAE 12%, Switzerland 6%, Saudi Arabia 5.7%, Turkey 4.5% (2006)
Imports: $10 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - partners: Syria 11.6%, Italy 9.8%, US 9.3%, France 7.7%, Germany 6%, China 5%, Saudi Arabia 4.7% (2006)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $19.4 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external: $34.67 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Exports - commodities: authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer goods, fruit and vegetables, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper
Economic aid - recipient: Of the...
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