GDP composition by sector: agriculture: 22% industry: 17% services: 61% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2% (1995)
Labor force: 235,000
by occupation: subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary
earners 15% (1987)
Unemployment rate: 5.4% (1992)
Budget:
revenues: $495.6 million
expenditures: $591.2 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)
Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, clothing, lumber,
small cottage industries
Industrial production growth rate: 0% (1993 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 200,000 kW production: 480 million kWh consumption per capita: 581 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: sugarcane, coconuts, cassava (tapioca), rice, sweet
potatoes, bananas; cattle, pigs, horses, goats; fish catch nearly
33,000 tons (1989)
Exports: $571.8 million (f.o.b., 1995)
commodities: sugar 40%, clothing, gold, processed fish, lumber
partners: EC 26%, Australia 15%, Pacific Islands 11%, Japan 6%