<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Monaco<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> Monaco, situated on the French Mediterranean coast, is a popular resort, attracting tourists to its casino and pleasant climate. The Principality has successfully sought to diversify into services and small, high-value-added, nonpolluting industries. The state has no income tax and low business taxes and thrives as a tax haven both for individuals who have established residence and for foreign companies that have set up businesses and offices. About 50% of Monaco's annual revenue comes from value-added taxes on hotels, banks, and the industrial sector; about 25% of revenue comes from tourism. Living standards are high, that is, roughly comparable to those in prosperous French metropolitan suburbs.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—exchange rate conversion—$475 million (1991 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> NA%
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $16,000 (1991 est.)
<item>• <hi format=ital>revenues:</hi> $424 million
<item>• <hi format=ital>expenditures:</hi> $376 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991 est.)
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<item><hi format=bold>Exports:</hi> $NA; full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in EU market system through customs union with France
<item><hi format=bold>Imports:</hi> $NA; full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in EU market system through customs union with France