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- Economy
-
- Overview: Agriculture provides the economic base. The major
- export earners are fruit, copra, and clothing. Manufacturing
- activities are limited to a fruit-processing plant and several
- clothing factories. Economic development is hindered by
- the isolation of the islands from foreign markets and a
- lack of natural resources and good transportation links. A large
- trade deficit is annually made up for by remittances from
- emigrants and from foreign aid. Current economic development
- plans call for exploiting the tourism potential and expanding
- the fishing industry.
-
- GDP: $40.0 million, per capita $2,200 (1988 est.); real growth
- rate 5.3% (1986-88 est.).
-
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.0% (1988).
-
- Unemployment rate: NA%.
-
- Budget: revenues $33.8 million; expenditures $34.4 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1990 est.).
-
- Exports: $4.0 million (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--copra,
- fresh and canned fruit, clothing; partners--NZ 80%, Japan.
-
- Imports: $38.7 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities--foodstuffs,
- textiles, fuels, timber; partners--NZ 49%, Japan, Australia, US.
-
- External debt: $NA.
-
- Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
-
- Electricity: 4,800 kW capacity; 15 million kWh produced,
- 830 kWh per capita (1989).
-
- Industries: fruit processing, tourism.
-
- Agriculture: export crops--copra, citrus fruits, pineapples,
- tomatoes, bananas; subsistence crops--yams, taro.
-
- Aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
- commitments (1970-89), $128 million.
-
- Currency: New Zealand dollar (plural--dollars); 1 New Zealand
- dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents.
-
- Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.6581
- (January 1990), 1.6708 (1989), 1.5244 (1988), 1.6886 (1987),
- 1.9088 (1986), 2.0064 (1985).
-
- Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March.
-