Electricity-capacity: 62,000 kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 195 million kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 11,704 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes
Exports: total value: $14.3 million (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts partners: US, Japan
Imports: total value: $72.4 million (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: NA partners: US
Debt-external: about $100 million (1989)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA note: the Compact of Free Association with the US, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, will provide Palau with up to $700 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities
Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: US currency is used