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- <title>
- Svalbard--Economy
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Svalbard
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: Coal mining is the major economic activity on
- Svalbard. By treaty (9 February 1920), the nationals of the
- treaty powers have equal rights to exploit mineral deposits,
- subject to Norwegian regulation. Although US, UK, Dutch, and
- Swedish coal companies have mined in the past, the only
- companies still mining are Norwegian and Russian. The
- settlements on Svalbard are essentially company towns. The
- Norwegian state-owned coal company employs nearly 60% of the
- Norwegian population on the island, runs many of the local
- services, and provides most of the local infrastructure. There is
- also some trapping of seal, polar bear, fox, and walrus.
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $13.3 million; expenditures $13.3 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 21,000 kW capacity; 45 million kWh produced,
- 13,860 kWh per capita (1992)
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 Norwegian krone (NKr)=100 ore
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Norwegian kroner (NKr) per US$1 - 6.8774
- (January 1993), 6.2145 (1992), 6.4829 (1991), 6.2597 (1990),
- 6.9045 (1989), 6.5170 (1988)
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