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id="id82789">Barbados
  -3.2% (2000 est.)

Belarus
  5% (2007 est.)

Belgium
  2.8% (2007 est.)

Belize
  0.5% (2007 est.)

Benin
  4.5% (2007 est.)

Bermuda
  NA%

Bhutan
  9.3% (1996 est.)

Bolivia
  1.1% (2007 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  6.7% (2007 est.)

Botswana
  4.2% (2007 est.)

Brazil
  4.9% (2007 est.)

British Virgin Islands
  NA%

Brunei
  1.8% (2005 est.)

Bulgaria
  14% (2007 est.)

Burkina Faso
  5.2% (2007 est.)

Burma
  9% (2007 est.)

Burundi
  6.4% (2007 est.)

Cambodia
  15% (2007 est.)

Cameroon
  3.5% (2007 est.)

Canada
  0.3% (2007 est.)

Cape Verde
  7.5% (2007 est.)

Cayman Islands
  NA%

Central African Republic
  3% (2002)

Chad
  2% (2007 est.)

Chile
  11.1% (2007 est.)

China
  13.4% (2007 est.)

Colombia
  9.8% (2007 est.)

Comoros
  -2% (1999 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  NA%

Congo, Republic of the
  -12% (2007 est.)

Cook Islands
  1% (2002)

Costa Rica
  7.3% (2007 est.)

Cote d'Ivoire
  -1.8% (2007 est.)

Croatia
  5.3% (2007 est.)

Cuba
  2.5% (2007 est.)

Cyprus
  3.8% (2007 est.)

Czech Republic
  9.8% (2007 est.)

Denmark
  0.5% (2007 est.)

Djibouti
  3% (1996 est.)

Dominica
  -10% (1997 est.)

Dominican Republic
  2.4% (2007 est.)

Ecuador
  1.4% (2007 est.)

Egypt
  7.5% (2007 est.)

El Salvador
  3.4% (2007 est.)

Equatorial Guinea
  10.1% (2007 est.)

Eritrea
  2% (2007 est.)

Estonia
  7.7% (2007 est.)

Ethiopia
  11% (2007 est.)

European Union
  3.2% (2006 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
  NA%

Faroe Islands
  8% (1999 est.)

Fiji
  NA%

Finland
  8.1% (2007 est.)

France
  1.8% (2007 est.)

French Polynesia
  NA%

Gabon
  5.2% (2007 est.)

Gambia, The
  -2.3% (2007 est.)

Gaza Strip
  2.4% (includes West Bank) (2005)

Georgia
  13.4% (2007 est.)

Germany
  5.2% (2007 est.)

Ghana
  7.8% (2007 est.)

Gibraltar
  NA%

Greece
  2.2% (2007 est.)

Greenland
  NA%

Grenada
  0.7% (1997 est.)

Guam
  NA%

Guatemala
  4.8% (2007 est.)

Guernsey
  NA%

Guinea
  7.6% (2007 est.)

Guinea-Bissau
  4.7% (2003 est.)

Guyana
  -26.4% (2007 est.)

Haiti
  2.5% (2007 est.)

Honduras
  4.4% (2007 est.)

Hong Kong
  -0.8% (2007 est.)

Hungary
  3.5% (2007 est.)

Iceland
  9% (2007 est.)

India
  8.5% (2007 est.)

Indonesia
  4.7% (2007 est.)

Iran
  4.8% excluding oil (2007 est.)

Iraq
  7.9% (2007 est.)

Ireland
  5% (2007 est.)

Isle of Man
  3.2% (FY96/97)

Israel
  4.1% (2007 est.)

Italy
  0.6% (2007 est.)

Jamaica
  1.2% (2007 est.)

Japan
  1.3% (2007 est.)

Jersey
  NA%

Jordan
  7.7% (2007 est.)

Kazakhstan
  7.2% (2007 est.)

Kenya
  6.8% (2007 est.)

Kiribati
  0.7% (1991 est.)

Korea, North
  NA%

Korea, South
  5.5% (2007 est.)

Kuwait
  1.7% (2007 est.)

Kyrgyzstan
  9.3% (2007 est.)

Laos
  12% (2007 est.)

Latvia
  5.4% (2007 est.)

Lebanon
  NA%

Lesotho
  12% (2007 est.)

Liberia
  NA%

Libya
  5.6% (2007 est.)

Liechtenstein
  NA%

Lithuania
  7.4% (2007 est.)

Luxembourg
  1.7% (2007 est.)

Macau
  3.8% (3rd quarter, 2007)

Macedonia
  1.7% (2007 est.)

Madagascar
  6% (2007 est.)

Malawi
  4.4% (2007 est.)

Malaysia
  3.3% (2007 est.)

Maldives
  -0.9% (2004 est.)

Mali
  NA%

Malta
  NA%

Marshall Islands
  NA%

Mauritania
  2% (2000 est.)

Mauritius
  4.7% (2007 est.)

Mayotte
  NA%

Mexico
  1.4% (2007 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of
  NA%

Moldova
  1% (2007 est.)

Monaco
  NA%

Mongolia
  3% (2006 est.)

Montserrat
  NA%

Morocco
  5% (2007 est.)

Mozambique
  10% (2007 est.)

Namibia
  9% (2007 est.)

Nauru
  NA%

Nepal
  2.2% (FY05/06)

Netherlands
  3.1% (2007 est.)

Netherlands Antilles
  NA%

New Caledonia
  -0.6% (1996)

New Zealand
  1.5% (2007 est.)

Nicaragua
  5% (2007 est.)

Niger
  5.1% (2003 est.)

Nigeria
  3.2% (2007 est.)

Niue
  NA%

Northern Mariana Islands
  NA%

Norway
  0.1% (2007 est.)

Oman
  3.2% (2007 est.)

Pakistan
  8% (2007 est.)

Palau
  NA%

Panama
  10.5% (2007 est.)

Papua New Guinea
  6.4% (2007 est.)

Paraguay
  -1% (2007 est.)

Peru
  9.8% (2007 est.)

Philippines
  7.1% (2007 est.)

Poland
  8.9% (2007 est.)

Portugal
  2.3% (2007 est.)

Puerto Rico
  NA%

Qatar
  8% (2007 est.)

Romania
  10.6% (2007 est.)

Russia
  7.4% (2007 est.)

Rwanda
  13.1% (2007 est.)

Saint Helena
  NA%

Saint Kitts and Nevis
  NA%

Saint Lucia
  -8.9% (1997 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  NA%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  -0.9% (1997 est.)

Samoa
  2.8% (2000)

San Marino
  5.6% (2005 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe
  7% (2007 est.)

Saudi Arabia
  2.9% (2007 est.)

Senegal
  5.2% (2007 est.)

Serbia
  1.8% (2007 est.)

Seychelles
  7% (2007 est.)

Sierra Leone
  NA%

Singapore
  7.4% (2007 est.)

Slovakia
  17.2% (2007 est.)

Slovenia
  9.5% (2007 est.)

Solomon Islands
  NA%

Somalia
  NA%

South Africa
  4.4% (2007 est.)

Spain
  3.1% (2007 est.)

Sri Lanka
  7.6% (2007 est.)

Sudan
  22% (2007 est.)

Suriname
  6.5% (1994 est.)

Swaziland
  1.1% (2007 est.)

Sweden
  3% (2007 est.)

Switzerland
  6.5% (2006 est.)

Syria
  2.5% (2007 est.)

Taiwan
  9.2% (2007 est.)

Tajikistan
  5% (2007 est.)

Tanzania
  9.5% (2007 est.)

Thailand
  5.4% (2007 est.)

Timor-Leste
  8.5% (2004 est.)

Togo
  1% (2007 est.)

Tonga
  1% (2003 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago
  6.5% (2007 est.)

Tunisia
  7.2% (2007 est.)

Turkey
  5.4% (2007 est.)

Turkmenistan
  10.3% (2007 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands
  NA%

Tuvalu
  NA%

Uganda
  5.8% (2007 est.)

Ukraine
  6% (2007 est.)

United Arab Emirates
  4.3% (2007 est.)

United Kingdom
  0.5% (2007 est.)

United States
  -1.7% (2007 est.)

Uruguay
  7.9% (2007 est.)

Uzbekistan
  12.1% (2007 est.)

Vanuatu
  1% (1997 est.)

Venezuela
  3.9% (2007 est.)

Vietnam
  10.6% (2007 est.)

Virgin Islands
  NA%

Wallis and Futuna
  NA%

West Bank
  2.4% (includes Gaza Strip) (2005)

Western Sahara
  NA%

World
  5% (2007 est.)

Yemen
  3.2% (2007 est.)

Zambia
  6.3% (2007 est.)

Zimbabwe
  -5% (2007 est.)

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@2090 Industries

Afghanistan
  small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture,
  shoes, fertilizer, cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, coal,
  copper

Albania
  food processing, textiles and clothing; lumber, oil, cement,
  chemicals, mining, basic metals, hydropower

Algeria
  petroleum, natural gas, light industries, mining,
  electrical, petrochemical, food processing

American Samoa
  tuna canneries (largely supplied by foreign fishing
  vessels), handicrafts

Andorra
  tourism (particularly skiing), cattle raising, timber,
  banking, tobacco, furniture

Angola
  petroleum; diamonds, iron ore, phosphates, feldspar, bauxite,
  uranium, and gold; cement; basic metal products; fish processing;
  food processing, brewing, tobacco products, sugar; textiles; ship
  repair

Anguilla
  tourism, boat building, offshore financial services

Antigua and Barbuda
  tourism, construction, light manufacturing
  (clothing, alcohol, household appliances)

Argentina
  food processing, motor vehicles, consumer durables,
  textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, printing, metallurgy, steel

Armenia
  diamond-processing, metal-cutting machine tools,
  forging-pressing machines, electric motors, tires, knitted wear,
  hosiery, shoes, silk fabric, chemicals, trucks, instruments,
  microelectronics, jewelry manufacturing, software development, food
  processing, brandy

Aruba
  tourism, transshipment facilities, oil refining

Australia
  mining, industrial and transportation equipment, food
  processing, chemicals, steel

Austria
  construction, machinery, vehicles and parts, food, metals,
  chemicals, lumber and wood processing, paper and paperboard,
  communications equipment, tourism

Azerbaijan
  petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield
  equipment; steel, iron ore; cement; chemicals and petrochemicals;
  textiles

Bahamas, The
  tourism, banking, cement, oil transshipment, salt, rum,
  aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe

Bahrain
  petroleum processing and refining, aluminum smelting, iron
  pelletization, fertilizers, Islamic and offshore banking, insurance,
  ship repairing, tourism

Bangladesh
  cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper
  newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar

Barbados
  tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for
  export

Belarus
  metal-cutting machine tools, tractors, trucks, earthmovers,
  motorcycles, televisions, synthetic fibers, fertilizer, textiles,
  radios, refrigerators

Belgium
  engineering and metal products, motor vehicle assembly,
  transportation equipment, scientific instruments, processed food and
  beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum

Belize
  garment production, food processing, tourism, construction,
  oil

Benin
  textiles, food processing, construction materials, cement

Bermuda
  international business, tourism, light manufacturing

Bhutan
  cement, wood products, processed fruits, alcoholic beverages,
  calcium carbide, tourism

Bolivia
  mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages, tobacco,
  handicrafts, clothing

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  steel, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, manganese,
  bauxite, vehicle assembly, textiles, tobacco products, wooden
  furniture, tank and aircraft assembly, domestic appliances, oil
  refining

Botswana
  diamonds, copper, nickel, salt, soda ash, potash; livestock
  processing; textiles

Brazil
  textiles, shoes, chemicals, cement, lumber, iron ore, tin,
  steel, aircraft, motor vehicles and parts, other machinery and
  equipment

British Virgin Islands
  tourism, light industry, construction, rum,
  concrete block, offshore financial center

Brunei
  petroleum, petroleum refining, liquefied natural gas,
  construction

Bulgaria
  electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco;
  machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke,
  refined petroleum, nuclear fuel

Burkina Faso
  cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap,
  cigarettes, textiles, gold

Burma
  agricultural processing; wood and wood products; copper, tin,
  tungsten, iron; cement, construction materials; pharmaceuticals;
  fertilizer; natural gas; garments, jade and gems

Burundi
  light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly
  of imported components; public works construction; food processing

Cambodia
  tourism, garments, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood
  products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Cameroon
  petroleum production and refining, aluminum production,
  food processing, light consumer goods, textiles, lumber, ship repair

Canada
  transportation equipment, chemicals, processed and
  unprocessed minerals, food products, wood and paper products, fish
  products, petroleum and natural gas

Cape Verde
  food and beverages, fish processing, shoes and garments,
  salt mining, ship repair

Cayman Islands
  tourism, banking, insurance and finance,
  construction, construction materials, furniture

Central African Republic
  gold and diamond mining, logging, brewing,
  textiles, footwear, assembly of bicycles and motorcycles

Chad
  oil, cotton textiles, meatpacking, brewing, natron (sodium
  carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials

Chile
  copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and
  steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles

China
  mining and ore processing, iron, steel, aluminum, and other
  metals, coal; machine building; armaments; textiles and apparel;
  petroleum; cement; chemicals; fertilizers; consumer products,
  including footwear, toys, and electronics; food processing;
  transportation equipment, including automobiles, rail cars and
  locomotives, ships, and aircraft; telecommunications equipment,
  commercial space launch vehicles, satellites

Christmas Island
  tourism, phosphate extraction (near depletion)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  copra products and tourism

Colombia
  textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear,
  beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds

Comoros
  fishing, tourism, perfume distillation

Congo, Democratic Republic of the mining (diamonds, gold, copper, cobalt, coltan zinc), mineral processing, consumer products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods and beverages), cement, commercial ship repair

Congo, Republic of the
  petroleum extraction, cement, lumber,
  brewing, sugar, palm oil, soap, flour, cigarettes

Cook Islands
  fruit processing, tourism, fishing, clothing,
  handicrafts

Costa Rica
  microprocessors, food processing, medical equipment,
  textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, plastic
  products

Cote d'Ivoire
  foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining,
  truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials,
  electricity, ship construction and repair

Croatia
  chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal,
  electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper,
  wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding,
  petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages, tourism

Cuba
  sugar, petroleum, tobacco, construction, nickel, steel, cement,
  agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals

Cyprus
  tourism, food and beverage processing, cement and gypsum
  production, ship repair and refurbishment, textiles, light
  chemicals, metal products, wood, paper, stone, and clay products

Czech Republic
  metallurgy, machinery and equipment, motor vehicles,
  glass, armaments

Denmark
  iron, steel, nonferrous metals, chemicals, food processing,
  machinery and transportation equipment, textiles and clothing,
  electronics, construction, furniture and other wood products,
  shipbuilding and refurbishment, windmills, pharmaceuticals, medical
  equipment

Dhekelia
  none

Djibouti
  construction, agricultural processing

Dominica
  soap, coconut oil, tourism, copra, furniture, cement
  blocks, shoes

Dominican Republic
  tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold
  mining, textiles, cement, tobacco

Ecuador
  petroleum, food processing, textiles, wood products,
  chemicals

Egypt
  textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals,
  pharmaceuticals, hydrocarbons, construction, cement, metals, light
  manufactures

El Salvador
  food processing, beverages, petroleum, chemicals,
  fertilizer, textiles, furniture, light metals

Equatorial Guinea
  petroleum, fishing, sawmilling, natural gas

Eritrea
  food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles, light
  manufacturing, salt, cement

Estonia
  engineering, electronics, wood and wood products, textiles;
  information technology, telecommunications

Ethiopia
  food processing, beverages, textiles, leather, chemicals,
  metals processing, cement

European Union
  among the world's largest and most technologically
  advanced, the European Union industrial base includes: ferrous and
  non-ferrous metal production and processing, metal products,
  petroleum, coal, cement, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, rail
  transportation equipment, passenger and commercial vehicles,
  construction equipment, industrial equipment, shipbuilding,
  electrical power equipment, machine tools and automated
  manufacturing systems, electronics and telecommunications equipment,
  fishing, food and beverage processing, furniture, paper, textiles,
  tourism

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
  fish and wool processing; tourism

Faroe Islands
  fishing, fish processing, small ship repair and
  refurbishment, handicrafts

Fiji
  tourism, sugar, clothing, copra, gold, silver, lumber, small
  cottage industries

Finland
  metals and metal products, electronics, machinery and
  scientific instruments, shipbuilding, pulp and paper, foodstuffs,
  chemicals, textiles, clothing

France
  machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft,
  electronics; textiles, food processing; tourism

French Polynesia
  tourism, pearls, agricultural processing,
  handicrafts, phosphates

Gabon
  petroleum extraction and refining; manganese, gold; chemicals,
  ship repair, food and beverages, textiles, lumbering and plywood,
  cement

Gambia, The
  processing peanuts, fish, and hides; tourism, beverages,
  agricultural machinery assembly, woodworking, metalworking, clothing

Gaza Strip
  generally small family businesses that produce textiles,
  soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the
  Israelis had established some small-scale modern industries in an
  industrial center, but operations ceased prior to Israel's
  evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements

Georgia
  steel, aircraft, machine tools, electrical appliances,
  mining (manganese and copper), chemicals, wood products, wine

Germany
  among the world's largest and most technologically advanced
  producers of iron, steel, coal, cement, chemicals, machinery,
  vehicles, machine tools, electronics, food and beverages,
  shipbuilding, textiles

Ghana
  mining, lumbering, light manufacturing, aluminum smelting,
  food processing, cement, small commercial ship building

Gibraltar
  tourism, banking and finance, ship repairing, tobacco

Greece
  tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals,
  metal products; mining, petroleum

Greenland
  fish processing (mainly shrimp and Greenland halibut);
  gold, niobium, tantalite, uranium, iron and diamond mining;
  handicrafts, hides and skins, small shipyards

Grenada
  food and beverages, textiles, light assembly operations,
  tourism, construction

Guam
  US military, tourism, construction, transshipment services,
  concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing, textiles

Guatemala
  sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals,
  petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism

Guernsey
  tourism, banking

Guinea
  bauxite, gold, diamonds, iron; alumina refining; light
  manufacturing, and agricultural processing

Guinea-Bissau
  agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks

Guyana
  bauxite, sugar, rice milling, timber, textiles, gold mining

Haiti
  sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, light
  assembly based on imported parts

Holy See (Vatican City) printing; production of coins, medals, postage stamps; a small amount of mosaics and staff uniforms; worldwide banking and financial activities

Honduras
  sugar, coffee, textiles, clothing, wood products

Hong Kong
  textiles, clothing, tourism, banking, shipping,
  electronics, plastics, toys, watches, clocks

Hungary
  mining, metallurgy, construction materials, processed foods,
  textiles, chemicals (especially pharmaceuticals), motor vehicles

Iceland
  fish processing; aluminum smelting, ferrosilicon production;
  geothermal power, tourism

India
  textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation
  equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software

Indonesia
  petroleum and natural gas, textiles, apparel, footwear,
  mining, cement, chemical fertilizers, plywood, rubber, food, tourism

Iran
  petroleum, petrochemicals, fertilizers, caustic soda, textiles,
  cement and other construction materials, food processing
  (particularly sugar refining and vegetable oil production), ferrous
  and non-ferrous metal fabrication, armaments

Iraq
  petroleum, chemicals, textiles, leather, construction
  materials, food processing, fertilizer, metal fabrication/processing

Ireland
  steel, lead, zinc, silver, aluminum, barite, and gypsum
  mining processing; food products, brewing, textiles, clothing;
  chemicals, pharmaceuticals; machinery, rail transportation
  equipment; glass and crystal; software, tourism

Isle of Man
  financial services, light manufacturing, tourism

Israel
  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

Italy
  tourism, machinery, iron and steel, chemicals, food
  processing,