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<text id=93CT1432>
<title>
Tuvalu--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tuvalu
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Tuvalu consists of a scattered group of nine coral
atolls with poor soil. The country has no known mineral
resources and few exports. Subsistence farming and fishing are
the primary economic activities. The islands are too small and
too remote for development of a tourist industry. Government
revenues largely come from the sale of stamps and coins and
worker remittances. Substantial income is received annually from
an international trust fund established in 1987 by Australia,
New Zealand, and the UK and supported also by Japan and South
Korea.
</p>
<p>National product: GNP - exchange rate conversion - $4.6
million (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: NA%
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $530 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1984)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $4.3 million; expenditures $4.3 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1989)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $1.0 million (f.o.b., 1983 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: copra</l>
<l> partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ</l>
<l>Imports: $2.8 million (c.i.f., 1983 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery,
manufactured goods</l>
<l> partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $NA
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
</p>
<p>Electricity: 2,600 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced, 330
kWh per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: fishing, tourism, copra
</p>
<p>Agriculture: coconuts
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $1
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $101 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar
($A)=100 cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars
($A) per US$1 - 1.4837 (January 1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2835
(1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989), 1.2752 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: NA
</p></body></article></text>