Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1997 est.)
Labor force: 235,000
Labor force—by occupation: subsistence agriculture 67%, wage earners 18%, salary earners 15% (1987)
Unemployment rate: 6% (1997 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $540.65 million
expenditures: $742.65 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997 est.)
Industries: sugar, tourism, copra, gold, silver, clothing,
lumber, small cottage industries
Industrial production growth rate: 2.9% (1995)
Electricity—production: 545 million kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 21.1% hydro: 78.9% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)