| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $105 million (2001 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
7.1% (2001 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $5,000 (2001 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 17%
industry: 7.8%
services: 75.2% (2000 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
3.2% (2000 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
8,000 (1996) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 29%, industry 15%, services 56%
note: shortage of skilled labor (1995) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $28 million
expenditures: $27 million, including capital expenditures of $3.3 million (FY00/01 est.) |
| Industries : |
fruit processing, tourism, fishing, clothing, handicrafts |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
1% (2002) |
| Electricity - Production : |
27.43 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
25.51 million kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
copra, citrus, pineapples, tomatoes, beans, pawpaws, bananas, yams, taro, coffee; pigs, poultry |
| Exports : |
$9.1 million (2000) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
copra, papayas, fresh and canned citrus fruit, coffee; fish; pearls and pearl shells; clothing |
| Exports - Partners : |
Australia 34%, Japan 27%, New Zealand 25%, US 8% (2000) |
| Imports : |
$50.7 million (2000) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
foodstuffs, textiles, fuels, timber, capital goods |
| Imports - Partners : |
New Zealand 61%, Fiji 19%, US 9%, Australia 6%, Japan 2% (2000) |
| Debt - External : |
$141 million (1996 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$13.1 million; note - New Zealand continues to furnish the greater part (1995) |
| Currency : |
New Zealand dollar (NZD) |
| Currency Code : |
NZD |
| Exchange Rates : |
New Zealand dollars per US dollar - 1.7229 (2003), 2.1622 (2002), 2.3776 (2001), 2.1863 (2000), 1.8886 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
1 April - 31 March |
