National product per capita: $7,000 (1993 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.7% (1991)
Unemployment rate: 10% (1990 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $614 million
expenditures: $957 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1988)
Exports: $88.9 million (f.o.b., 1989)
commodities: coconut products 79%, mother-of-pearl 14%, vanilla, shark
meat
partners: France 54%, US 17%, Japan 17%
Imports: $765 million (c.i.f., 1989) commodities: fuels, foodstuffs, equipment partners: France 53%, US 11%, Australia 6%, NZ 5%
External debt: $NA
Industrial production: growth rate NA%; accounts for 15% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 75,000 kW production: 275 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,189 kWh (1993)
Industries: tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts