Macroeconomic Fundamentals Non-Energy GDP /per cent/ 2003  2004  2005  2006  2007p  6.7  6.7  5.0  6.6  6.7  Agriculture  -15.3  -34.2  -9.2  -0.9  -5.9  Manufacturing  12.0  5.2  12.6  9.4  8.0  Construction  23.4  8.1  13.4  4.3  5.2  Finance, Insurance & Real Estate  7.3  21.7  0.4  1.2  10.5  8.4  8.3  7.8  8.2  8.3  Non-Energy GDP of Which:  Memo: Contribution of Financial Sector to Total Employment  Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago  2  BIS Review 49/2009  3.
The average inflation rate in the first five years of the 1990s was 6.8 per cent, 6.1 per cent in the second half of the 1990s and 5.2 per cent in the last five years. For the current year the rate of inflation is forecast at close to 4 per cent.