Timor-Leste GDP Data & Country Report

Timor-Leste Country Report: GDP data and GDP forecasts; economic, financial and trade information; the best banks in Timor-Leste; country and population overview

DATA ON GDP AND ECONOMIC INFORMATION

Central bank

N/A

International Reserves

US$ 406.188 million (Source: World Bank; Data updated: November 2010)

Gross Domestic Product - GDP

US$ 709 million (2007 estimate)

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

3.311 billion of International dollars (2007 estimate)

Real GDP growth

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
-10.1%	21%	2.1%	-0.1%	4.4%	6.5%	-5.9%	9.1%
2008	2009	2010	2011*
11%	12.9%	6.1%	7.3%

*Estimate

GDP per capita - current prices

US$ 649 (2007 estimate)

GDP per capita - PPP

$3,031 International Dollars (2007 estimate)

GDP (PPP) - share of world total

1980	1990	2000	2010	2015**
N/A	N/A	0%	0%	0.01%

**Forecast

GDP - composition by sector

agriculture: 27%
industry: 18.1%
services: 54.8% (2011 estimate)

(Data released on February 2012)

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (% of GDP)

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Inflation

2008	2009	2010	2011*
7.6%(2008)	0.1%	4.9%	6%

*Estimate

Unemployment rate

2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A

*Estimate

Household saving rates

N/A

(Data released on November 2010)

Public debt (General government gross debt as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010	2011*
N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

*Estimate

Public deficit (General government net lending/borrowing as a % of GDP)

2007	2008	2009	2010*	2011**
316%	430.8%	238.2%	212.5%	202%

*Estimate **Forecast

Government bond ratings

Standard & Poor's: N/A

Moody's rating: N/A

Moody's outlook: N/A

(Foreign Currency Government Bond Ratings; Data last updated Nov 2010)

Market value of publicly traded shares

2007	2008	2009
N/A	N/A	N/A

Largest companies in Timor-Leste

N/A

DATA ON TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS

Current account balance

US$ 1.4 billion (2009 estimate)(After 2008)

Current account balance by percentage of GDP

196.9% of GDP (2007 estimate)(2009)

Exports as percent of GDP

(Exports of goods and services)

N/A

(Data released on December 2010)

Shares in world total merchandising export

N/A(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Shares in world total commercial services export

N/A(2007)

(Data were released in Nov 2011 and refer to 2010)

Total exports

N/A

Export commodities

coffee, sandalwood, marble; note - potential for oil and vanilla exports

Total imports

US$202 million (2004 estimate)

Import commodities

food, gasoline, kerosene, machinery

Exports - major partners

N/A

Imports - major partners

N/A

FDI inflows

2008	2009	2010
US$40 million	US$50 million(2009)	US$280 million(2009)

FDI outflows

2008	2009	2010
N/A	N/A	N/A

Value of cross-border M&A, by country of purchaser

2008	2009	2010	2011
N/A	N/A(2009)	N/A(2009)	N/A

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2008

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Cross-border M&A deals worth over $3 billion completed in 2010

(Acquiring company, Acquired company, Country of the acquired company, Value of the deal)

N/A(2008 estimate)

(for a monthly update on M&A click here )

Best countries for doing business

World Bank/IFC Doing Business Project

(Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 183. A high ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.)

Overall ranking: 174 out of 183 countries(2009) (2010)

Subcategories:

Starting a business: 167 out of 183 countries(2009)

Registering property: 183 out of 183 countries

Paying Taxes: 20 out of 183 countries

Getting credit: 182 out of 183 countries

Protecting investors: 132 out of 183 countries

Trading across border: 91 out of 183 countries

Enforcing Contracts: 183 out of 183 countries

(2010)

Global competitiveness ranking
(ranking by country on a basis of 142, the first is the best)

131

(2011/2012)

Index of Economic Freedom

WSJ and Heritage Foundation

Ranking: 170 Score: 42.8 (Repressed) (2009)

(100=totally free 0=totally repressed )

COUNTRY AND POPULATION OVERVIEW

Time zone

UTC+9

Total area

14,874 km² (2006)

Capital

Dili (2009)

Currency

US Dollar (USD) (2009)

Government type

republic (2009)

Languages

Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English

Religions

Roman Catholic 98%, Muslim 1%, Protestant 1% (2005)

Total population

1980	1990	2000	2010*	2015**
N/A	N/A	0.84 million	1.15 million	1.34 million

*Estimate **Forecast

Urban population as % of total population

1960	1980	2000	2009
10.1%	16.5%	24.3%	27.7%

Population median age

17.0 years (2006)

Population growth rate

3.2% (2009)

Life expectancy

61 years (2007)

Adult literacy

N/A

% of population living on less than $2 a day

72.82% (2011)

Inequality of wealth distribution (Gini index)

31.9 (2007)

(0=perfect equality, 100=absolute inequality)

Freedom House rating

N/A

(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free)

Total telephone subscribers as % of population

53.63% (2010)

(sum of fixed telephone lines and mobile cellular subscribers)

Internet users as % of total population

0.21% (Data were released in 2011 and refer to 2010)

Cost of living index

(ranking by city on a basis of 214; the 1st is the most expensive and the 214th is the least expensive)

N/A

CO2 emissions
(Metric tons of CO2 per capita)

0.1739 (2008)

GLOBAL FINANCE RANKINGS AND AWARDS

ARTICLES AND COUNTRIES REPORTS FROM GLOBAL FINANCE ARCHIVE

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