partners—US 53%, France 41%, Africa 4%, FRG 2% (1988)
_#_Imports: $41 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.);
commodities—rice and other foodstuffs, cement, petroleum products, consumer goods;
partners—Europe 62% (France 22%, other 40%), Africa 5%, Pakistan, China (1988)
_#_External debt: $242 million (December 1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 3.4% (1988 est.); accounts for 5% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 16,000 kW capacity; 24 million kWh produced, 55 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: perfume distillation, textiles, furniture, jewelry, construction materials
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; most of population works in subsistence agriculture and fishing; plantations produce cash crops for export—vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, and copra; principal food crops—coconuts, bananas, cassava; world's leading producer of essence of ylang-ylang (for perfumes) and second-largest producer of vanilla; large net food importer
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY80-89), $10 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $406 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $22 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $18 million