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- Economy
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- Overview: Tokelau's small size, isolation, and lack of resources
- greatly restrain economic development and confine agriculture
- to the subsistence level. The people must rely on aid from New
- Zealand to maintain public services, annual aid being
- substantially greater than GDP. The principal sources of revenue
- come from sales of copra, postage stamps, souvenir coins, and
- handicrafts. Money is also remitted to families from relatives
- in New Zealand.
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- GDP: $1.4 million, per capita $800; real growth rate NA% (1988
- est.)
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- Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
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- Unemployment rate: NA%
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- Budget: revenues $430,830; expenditures $2.8 million, including
- capital expenditures of $37,300 (FY87)
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- Exports: $98,000 (f.o.b., 1983);
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- commodities--stamps, copra, handicrafts;
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- partners--NZ
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- Imports: $323,400 (c.i.f., 1983);
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- commodities--foodstuffs, building materials, fuel;
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- partners--NZ
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- External debt: none
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- Industrial production: growth rate NA%
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- Electricity: 200 kW capacity; 300,000 kWh produced, 180 kWh per
- capita (1990)
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- Industries: small-scale enterprises for copra production, wood
- work, plaited craft goods; stamps, coins; fishing
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- Agriculture: coconuts, copra; basic subsistence
- crops--breadfruit, papaya, bananas; pigs, poultry, goats
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- Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-88), $24 million
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- Currency: New Zealand dollar (plural--dollars); 1 New Zealand
- dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents
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- Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.8245
- (March (1992), 1.7265 (1991), 1.6750 (1990), 1.6708 (1989),
- 1.5244 (1988), 1.6886 (1987)
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- Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March
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