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<text id=93CT1555>
<title>
Western Samoa--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Western Samoa
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: Agriculture employs more than half of the labor
force, contributes 50% to GDP, and furnishes 90% of exports. The
bulk of export earnings comes from the sale of coconut oil and
copra. The economy depends on emigrant remittances and foreign
aid to support a level of imports several times export earnings.
Tourism has become the most important growth industry, and
construction of the first international hotel is under way.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $115
million (1990)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: -4.5% (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $690 (1990)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15% (1990)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: NA%
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $95.3 million; expenditures $95.4 million,
including capital expenditures of $41 million (FY92)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $9 million (f.o.b., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: coconut oil and cream 54%, taro 12%, copra 9%,
cocoa 3%</l>
<l> partners: NZ 28%, American Samoa 23%, Germany 22%, US 6%
(1990)</l>
<l>Imports: $75 million (c.i.f., 1990)</l>
<l> commodities: intermediate goods 58%, food 17%, capital goods
12%</l>
<l> partners: New Zealand 41%, Australia 18%, Japan 13%, UK 6%,
US 6%</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $83 million (December 1990 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate -4% (1990 est.); accounts
for 14% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 29,000 kW capacity; 45 million kWh produced, 240
kWh per capita (1990)
</p>
<p>Industries: timber, tourism, food processing, fishing
</p>
<p>Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; coconuts, fruit
(including bananas, taro, yams)
</p>
<p>Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $18
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $306 million; OPEC bilateral aid
(1979-89), $4 million
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 tala (WS$)=100 sene
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: tala (WS$) per US$1 - 2.5681 (January 1993),
2.4655 (1992), 2.3975 (1991), 2.3095 (1990), 2.2686 (1989),
2.0790 (1988)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>