Brunei

Brunei has a small well-to-do economy that encompasses a mixture of foreign and domestic entrepreneurship, government regulation, welfare measures, and village tradition. Crude oil and natural gas production account for just over half of GDP and more than 90% of exports. Per capita GDP is among the highest in Asia, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for all medical services and free education through the university level and subsidizes rice and housing. A new monetary authority was established in January 2011 with responsibilities that include monetary policy, monitoring of financial institutions, and currency trading activities. Other plans for the future include upgrading the labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening the banking and tourist sectors, increasing agricultural production, and, in general, further widening the economic base beyond oil and gas.

$19.88 billion (2010 est.)

$19.68 billion (2009 est.)

$20.04 billion (2008 est.)

$11.96 billion (2010 est.)

1% (2010 est.)

-1.8% (2009 est.)

-1.9% (2008 est.)

$50,300 (2010 est.)

$50,700 (2009 est.)

$52,500 (2008 est.)

188,800 (2008 est.)

3.7% (2008)

4% (2006)

NA%

2.7% (2008 est.)

0.3% (2007 est.)

5.5% (31 December 2009 est.)

5.5% (31 December 2008 est.)

$3.374 billion (30 March 2009)

$3.046 billion (31 December 2008)

$8.569 billion (31 December 2009)

$7.597 billion (31 December 2008)

$1.274 billion (31 December 2008 est.)

$2.38 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

$NA

rice, vegetables, fruits; chickens, water buffalo, cattle, goats, eggs

petroleum, petroleum refining, liquefied natural gas, construction

-5.4% (2008 est.)

3.069 billion kWh (2008)

2.98 billion kWh (2008)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

146,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

16,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

152,900 bbl/day (2007)

238 bbl/day (2007 est.)

1.1 billion bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

13.4 billion cu m (2008 est.)

4.2 billion cu m (2008 est.)

9.2 billion cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

390.8 billion cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

$7.024 billion (2008 est.)

$7.101 billion (2007 est.)

$10.67 billion (2008)

$8.25 billion (2007)

crude oil, natural gas, garments

Japan 38.04%, Indonesia 25.95%, South Korea 14.17%, Australia 7.24% (2009)

$2.61 billion (2008 est.)

$2.055 billion (2007 est.)

machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, chemicals

Singapore 38.4%, Malaysia 18.7%, Japan 7.2%, China 5.42%, Thailand 5.19%, US 4.45%, UK 4.25% (2009)

$0 (2005)

Bruneian dollars (BND) per US dollar - 1.45 (2009), 1.45 (2009), 2 (2006), 2 (2005), 2 (2004)