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- Economy
-
- Overview: The economy's base is agriculture, which employs
- about 70% of the labor force and contributes 50% to GDP.
- Coconuts, bananas, and vanilla beans are the main crops and make
- up two-thirds of exports. The country must import a high
- proportion of its food, mainly from New Zealand. The
- manufacturing sector accounts for only 11% of GDP. Tourism is
- the primary source of hard currency earnings, but the island
- remains dependent on sizable external aid and remittances to
- offset its trade deficit.
-
- GDP: exchange rate conversion - $92 million, per capita $900;
- real growth rate 2.5% (FY90 est.)
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.9% (third quarter 1991)
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- Unemployment rate: NA%
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- Budget: revenues $30.6 million; expenditures $48.9 million,
- including capital expenditures of $22.5 million (FY89 est.)
-
- Exports: $9.6 million (f.o.b., FY90 est.)
-
- commodities: coconut oil, desiccated coconut, copra, bananas,
- taro, vanilla beans, fruits, vegetables, fish
-
- partners: NZ 35%, Australia 22%, US 13%, Fiji 5% (FY90)
-
- Imports: $59.9 million (c.i.f., FY90 est.)
-
- commodities: food products, machinery and transport
- equipment, manufactures, fuels, chemicals
-
- partners: NZ 30%, Australia 23%, US 12%, Japan 7% (FY90)
-
- External debt: $42.0 million (FY89)
-
- Industrial production: growth rate 15% (FY86); accounts for 11%
- of GDP
-
- Electricity: 6,000 kW capacity; 8 million kWh produced, 80 kWh
- per capita (1990)
-
- Industries: tourism, fishing
-
- Agriculture: dominated by coconut, copra, and banana
- production; vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee, ginger, black pepper
-
- Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $16
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $258 million
-
- Currency: pa'anga (plural - pa'anga); 1 pa'anga (T$) = 100
- seniti
-
- Exchange rates: pa'anga (T$) per US$1 - 1.2987 (January 1992),
- 1.2961 (1991), 1.2809 (1990), 1.2637 (1989), 1.2799 (1988),
- 1.4282 (1987)
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- Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
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