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- <text id=93CT1432>
- <title>
- Tuvalu--Economy
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tuvalu
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Tuvalu consists of a scattered group of nine coral
- atolls with poor soil. The country has no known mineral
- resources and few exports. Subsistence farming and fishing are
- the primary economic activities. The islands are too small and
- too remote for development of a tourist industry. Government
- revenues largely come from the sale of stamps and coins and
- worker remittances. Substantial income is received annually from
- an international trust fund established in 1987 by Australia,
- New Zealand, and the UK and supported also by Japan and South
- Korea.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GNP - exchange rate conversion - $4.6
- million (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $530 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1984)
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $4.3 million; expenditures $4.3 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1989)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $1.0 million (f.o.b., 1983 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: copra</l>
- <l> partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ</l>
- <l>Imports: $2.8 million (c.i.f., 1983 est.)</l>
- <l> commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery,
- manufactured goods</l>
- <l> partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $NA
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 2,600 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced, 330
- kWh per capita (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: fishing, tourism, copra
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: coconuts
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $1
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $101 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar
- ($A)=100 cents
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars
- ($A) per US$1 - 1.4837 (January 1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2835
- (1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989), 1.2752 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: NA
- </p></body></article></text>
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