The Gambia

Economic sectors

Without minerals or other natural resources, and economically small in size with an under-developed

Communications
Country	Newspapers	Radios	TV Sets^a	Cable subscribers^a	Mobile Phones^a	Fax Machines^a	Personal Computers^a	Internet Hosts^b	Internet Users^b
	1996	1997	1998	1998	1998	1998	1998	1999	1999
Gambia	2	168	3	N/A	4	1.0	2.6	0.02	3
United States	215	2,146	847	244.3	256	78.4	458.6	1,508.77	74,100
Nigeria	24	223	66	N/A	0	N/A	5.7	0.00	100
Guinea-Bissau	5	44	N/A	N/A	0	0.4	N/A	0.13	2
^aData are from International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report 1999 and are per 1,000 people.
^bData are from the Internet Software Consortium (http://www.isc.org) and are per 10,000 people.
SOURCE: World Bank. World Development Indicators 2000.

infrastructure, the Gambia's economy depends heavily on agriculture, tourism, and the re-export of imported goods to neighboring countries through the port at Banjul. The 1998 estimates for the contributions of each sector to GDP were: agriculture 22 percent, industry 14 percent, and services 64 percent.