ECONOMY 

   
   
5% of the gross national product or GNP comes from the contribution of the metropolis by transfer of funds publics. 

The state assures 50% of the social protection. 
The active population is essentially distributed in services. 
Unemployment is there important. In spite of the strong emigration, Guadeloupe has difficulty stopping an important underemployment. 
One finds a lot of metropolitan in civil servants.
 
AGRICULTURE

Industrial cultures of cane to sugar, such fruit exploitations bananas essentially for the export; come then vegetables and the animal production.
     
     

The agricultural problems touch the rum, sugar, bananas and pineapples. The production is not more competitive but coins subsidies. The price of comes back of the hand-d'œuvre is more elevated four times that in the neighboring islands, or even ten times the one of Haiti. 
  
Raising is constituted of Bovines in majority. One also finds pigs, the ovine and poultries. The fishing counts 2 000 marine-fishers and 900 armed ships thereabouts. 
Raising stagnates for lack of expertise. 

The export covers 25% of imports solely.   
  
The energy is imported to 90%. It is constituted in majority of hydrocarbons. electricity represents 30% of the energy consumption. Guadeloupe possesses two thermal power stations to fuel-oil and 2 hydraulic power stations. A farm to wind is to the Désirade and one to Marie-Galante. A power station imported of Colombia is situated to the Mold. She is mixed bagasse-coal and is associated to the Gardel sweet. She has been inaugurated in 1999. 
  
The aerial transport is majority passengers. 350 national roads furrow Guadeloupe. 
  
The tourism develops itself around two main axes that are hotels 
and residences of tourism. Come then furnished them, resting places and villages of vacations. 
Tourists essentially come from metropolis, the DOM(departments of Outre-Mer), Europe, USA and Canada. 
The tourism of cruise represents 400 boats thereabouts per year is more than 500 000 passengers. 

Of the protected sites of which a reserve natural of the Big marine ass-of-bag created in 1987 and a national park in 1989, situated to Bass-earth. 

Some animal species are protected. for majority of birds, 
but also of iguanas, the navy turtles, or orchids.

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