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Economy
Overview: Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with natural
resources, but exploitation has been hampered by the rugged
terrain and the high cost of developing an infrastructure.
Agriculture provides a subsistence livelihood for more than
half of the population. Mining of numerous deposits, including
copper and gold, accounts for about 60% of export earnings.
Budgetary support from Australia and development aid under
World Bank auspices help sustain the economy.
GDP: $3.26 billion, per capita $890; real growth rate 1.2%
(1988 est.).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1988 est.).
Unemployment rate: 5% (1988).
Budget: revenues $962 million; expenditures $998 million,
including capital expenditures of $169 million (1988).
Exports: $1.4 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--gold,
copper ore, coffee, copra, palm oil, timber, lobster; partners--
FRG, Japan, Australia, UK, Spain, US.
Imports: $1.2 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--machinery
and transport equipment, fuels, food, chemicals, consumer goods;
partners--Australia, Singapore, Japan, US, New Zealand, UK.
External debt: $2.5 billion (December 1988).
Industrial production: growth rate NA%.
Electricity: 397,000 kW capacity; 1,510 million kWh produced,
400 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: copra crushing, oil palm processing, plywood
processing, wood chip production, gold, silver, copper,
construction, tourism.
Agriculture: one-third of GDP; livelihood for 85% of population;
fertile soils and favorable climate permits cultivating
a wide variety of crops; cash crops--coffee, cocoa, coconuts,
palm kernels; other products--tea, rubber, sweet potatoes,
fruit, vegetables, poultry, pork; net importer of food for
urban centers.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $38.8 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $5.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89),
$17 million.
Currency: kina (plural--kina); 1 kina (K) = 100 toea.
Exchange rates: kina (K) per US$1--1.1592 (December 1989),
1.1685 (1989), 1.1538 (1988), 1.1012 (1987), 1.0296 (1986),
1.0000 (1985).
Fiscal year: calendar year.