<text id=94CT1535><title>Wallis and Futuna—Economy</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Wallis and Futuna<nl>Economy</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Overview:</hi> The economy is limited to traditional subsistence agriculture, with about 80% of the labor force earning its livelihood from agriculture (coconuts and vegetables), livestock (mostly pigs), and fishing. About 4% of the population is employed in government. Revenues come from French Government subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea, import taxes, and remittances from expatriate workers in New Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna imports food, fuel, clothing, machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports are negligible, consisting of copra and handicrafts.
<item><hi format=bold>National product:</hi> GDP—exchange rate conversion—$25 million (1991 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>National product real growth rate:</hi> NA%
<item><hi format=bold>National product per capita:</hi> $1,500 (1991 est.)
<item><hi format=bold>Agriculture:</hi> dominated by coconut production, with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas, and herds of pigs and goats
<item><hi format=bold>Economic aid:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>recipient:</hi> Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $118 million
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<item><hi format=bold>Currency:</hi> 1 CFP franc (CFPF)=100 centimes
<item><hi format=bold>Exchange rates:</hi> Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per US$1—107.63 (January 1994), 102.96 (1993), 96.24 (1992), 102.57 (1991), 99.0 (1990), 115.99 (1989); note—linked at the rate of 18.18 to the French franc