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<text id=93CT1107>
<title>
Papua New Guinea--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Papua New Guinea
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>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 85% 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 have helped sustain the economy. Robust growth in
1991-92 was led by the mining sector; the opening of a large new
gold mine helped the advance.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $3.4
billion (1992)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 8.5% (1992)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $850 (1992)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (1992-93)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $1.33 billion; expenditures $1.49 billion,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: gold, copper ore, coffee, logs, palm oil,
cocoa, lobster</l>
<l> partners: FRG, Japan, Australia, UK, Spain, US</l>
<l>Imports: $1.6 billion (c.i.f., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: machinery and transport equipment, food, fuels,
chemicals, consumer goods</l>
<l> partners: Australia, Singapore, Japan, US, New Zealand,
UK</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $2.2 billion (April 1991)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 21% of
GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 400,000 kW capacity; 1,600 million kWh produced,
400 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: copra crushing, palm oil processing, plywood
production, wood chip production, mining of gold, silver, and
copper, construction, tourism
</p>
<p>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
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $40.6
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $6.5 billion; OPEC bilateral aid
(1979-89), $17 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 kina (K)=100 toea
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: kina (K) per US$1 - 1.0065 (January 1993),
1.0367 (1992), 1.0504 (1991), 1.0467 (1990), 1.1685 (1989),
1.1538 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>