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- <text id=93CT1531>
- <title>
- Wallis & Futuna--Economy
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Wallis and Futuna
- Economy</hdr><body>
- <p>Overview: The economy is limited to traditional subsistence
- agriculture, with about 80% of the labor force earning its
- livelihood from agriculture (coconuts and vegetables), livestock
- (mostly pigs), and fishing. About 4% of the population is
- employed in government. Revenues come from French Government
- subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea,
- import taxes, and remittances from expatriate workers in New
- Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna imports food, fuel, clothing,
- machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports are
- negligible, consisting of copra and handicrafts.
- </p>
- <p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $25 million
- (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>National product real growth rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>National product per capita: $1,500 (1991 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%
- </p>
- <p>Unemployment rate: NA%
- </p>
- <p>Budget: revenues $2.7 million; expenditures $2.7 million,
- including capital expenditures of $NA (1983)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Exports: negligible</l>
- <l> commodities: copra, handicrafts</l>
- <l> partners: NA</l>
- <l>Imports: $13.3 million (c.i.f., 1984)</l>
- <l> commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, transportation
- equipment, fuel</l>
- <l> partners: France, Australia, New Zealand</l>
- </list>
- <p>External debt: $NA
- </p>
- <p>Industrial production: growth rate NA%
- </p>
- <p>Electricity: 1,200 kW capacity; 1 million kWh produced, 70 kWh
- per capita (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Industries: copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber
- </p>
- <p>Agriculture: dominated by coconut production, with subsistence
- crops of yams, taro, bananas, and herds of pigs and goats
- </p>
- <p>Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF
- bilateral commitments (1970-89), $118 million
- </p>
- <p>Currency: 1 CFP franc (CFPF)=100 centimes
- </p>
- <p>Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF)
- per US$1 - 99.65 (January 1993), 96.24 (1992), 102.57 (1991),
- 99.0 (1990), 115.99 (1989), 108.30 (1988); note - linked at the
- rate of 18.18 to the French franc
- </p>
- <p>Fiscal year: NA
- </p></body></article></text>
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