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- Nauru: Economy
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Nauru
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Revenues come from the export of phosphates, the reserves
- of which are expected to be exhausted by the year 2000. Phosphates
- have given Nauruans one of the highest per capita incomes in the
- Third World - $10,000 annually. Few other resources exist, so most
- necessities must be imported, including fresh water from Australia.
- The rehabilitation of mined land and the replacement of income from
- phosphates are serious long-term problems. Substantial amounts of
- phosphate income are invested in trust funds to help cushion the
- transition.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GNP - exchange rate conversion - $90 million
- (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $10,000 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: 0%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $69.7 million; expenditures $51.5 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (FY86 est.)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: $93 million (f.o.b., 1984)</l>
- <l> commodities: phosphates</l>
- <l> partners: Australia, NZ</l>
- <l>Imports: $73 million (c.i.f., 1984)</l>
- <l> commodities: food, fuel, manufactures, building materials,
- machinery</l>
- <l> partners: Australia, UK, NZ, Japan</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $33.3 million
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 14,000 kW capacity; 50 million kWh produced, 5,430 kWh
- per capita (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: phosphate mining, financial services, coconut products
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: coconuts; other agricultural activity negligible;
- almost completely dependent on imports for food and water
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries (1970-89), $2 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Australian dollar ($A)=100 cents
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.4837 (January
- 1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2834 (1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989),
- 1.2752 (1988)
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
- </p></body></article></text>
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