28, May 2012, CEST. Welcome to the Western Sahara economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.

Economic Indicators For: Western Sahara › 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: 507,160 (July 2011 est.) note: estimate is based on projections by age, sex, fertility, mortality, and migration; fertility and mortality are based on data from neighboring countries
Area: total: 266,000 sq km land: 266,000 sq km water: 0 sq km
Natural Resources: phosphates, iron ore
Capital: none time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last Sunday in July
Data Sources: IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International

Western Sahara depends on pastoral nomadism, fishing, and phosphate mining as the chief sources of income for the general population. The territory lacks sufficient rainfall for maintainable agricultural, agrarian, fisheries and farming production, and most of the food stuffs for the urban general populace must be imported. Incomes in Western Sahara are substantially under the Moroccan level. The Moroccan Government controls all trade and other economic activities in Western Sahara.