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- Economy
-
- 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.
-
- GNP: exchange rate conversion - $4.6 million, per capita $530;
- real growth rate NA% (1989 est.)
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1984)
-
- Unemployment rate: NA%
-
- Budget: revenues $4.3 million; expenditures $4.3 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1989)
-
- Exports: $1.0 million (f.o.b., 1983 est.)
-
- commodities: copra
-
- partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ
-
- Imports: $2.8 million (c.i.f., 1983 est.)
-
- commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery,
- manufactured goods
-
- partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ
-
- External debt: $NA
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA
-
- Electricity: 2,600 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced, 330 kWh
- per capita (1990)
-
- Industries: fishing, tourism, copra
-
- Agriculture: coconuts, copra
-
- Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $1
- million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $101 million
-
- Currency: Tuvaluan dollar and Australian dollar (plural -
- dollars); 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar ($A) =
- 100 cents
-
- Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars
- ($A) per US$1 - 1.3117 (March 1992), 1.2835 (1991), 1.2799
- (1990), 1.2618 (1989), 1.2752 (1988), 1.4267 (1987)
-
- Fiscal year: NA
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