27, May 2012, CEST. Welcome to the Gaza Strip economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.
Economic Indicators For: Gaza Strip › Change country
National or Regional Currency: ,
Year of data: 2010 › Change year
Number of Indicators Listed:
Full Dataset: From Year 1980 to 2016
Date of Last Update: 1st August 2011
Population: 1,657,155 (July 2011 est.)
Area: total: 360 sq km
land: 360 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Natural Resources: arable land, natural gas
Data Sources: IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International
The Economy of Gaza , once mostly dependent on small-scale industries and agriculture, is now almost entirely dependent on foreign aid. There is a ceiling on land access, and strict internal and external security controls in the country which have kept the economic environment in the Gaza Strip more degregulated than in the West Bank. Israeli closure policies which were imposed to address security concerns in Israel, disrupted workforce and trade access to and from the Gaza Strip.