Fish catch per year: 10,502 tonnes

Oil production and reserves: Not an oil producer

Estimated livestock resources: 13,852 goats, 6418 sheep, 4900 pigs, 4.1m chickens

Main mineral resources: Salt, aragonite

The Bahamas has no strategic resources. A 13.5 MW electricity generating plant was opened in 1998.

From "The Financial Times World Desk Reference" © Dorling Kindersley 2004