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<text id=93CT1352>
<title>
Solomon Islands--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Solomon Islands
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: About 90% of the population depend on subsistence
agriculture, fishing, and forestry for at least part of their
livelihood. Agriculture, fishing, and forestry contribute about
70% to GDP, with the fishing and forestry sectors being
important export earners. The service sector contributes about
25% to GDP. Most manufactured goods and petroleum products must
be imported. The islands are rich in undeveloped mineral
resources such as lead, zinc, nickel, and gold. The economy
suffered from a severe cyclone in mid-1986 that caused
widespread damage to the infrastructure.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $200
million (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: 6% (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $600 (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.3% (1991)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $48 million; expenditures $107 million,
including capital expenditures of $45 million (1991 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $74.2 million (f.o.b., 1991 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: fish 46%, timber 31%, copra 5%, palm oil
5%</l>
<l> partners: Japan 51%, UK 12%, Thailand 9%, Netherlands 8%,
Australia 2%, US 2% (1985)</l>
<l>Imports: $87.1 million (c.i.f., 1991 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: plant and machinery 30%, fuel 19%, food
16%</l>
<l> partners: Japan 36%, US 23%, Singapore 9%, UK 9%, NZ 9%,
Australia 4%, Hong Kong 4%, China 3% (1985)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $128 million (1988 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1987); accounts for 5%
of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 21,000 kW capacity; 39 million kWh produced, 115
kWh per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: copra, fish (tuna)
</p>
<p>Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for
about 70% of GDP; mostly subsistence farming; cash crops -
cocoa, beans, coconuts, palm kernels, timber; other products -
rice, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, cattle, pigs; not
self-sufficient in food grains; 90% of the total fish catch of
44,500 metric tons was exported (1988)
</p>
<p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF
bilateral commitments (1980-89), $250 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Solomon Islands dollar (SI$)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Solomon Islands dollars (SI$) per US$1 -
3.1211 (January 1993), 2.9281 (1992), 2.7148 (1991), 2.5288
(1990), 2.2932 (1989), 2.0825 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>