Atlantic Ocean Economy Profile 2018

Home > Factbook > Countries > Atlantic Ocean

Economy - overviewThe Atlantic Ocean provides some of the world's most heavily trafficked sea routes, between and within the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, dredging of aragonite sands (The Bahamas), and production of crude oil and natural gas (Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and North Sea).

Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on January 20, 2018