Unemployment rate:
30.9% (1999 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $42 million
expenditures: $40 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1999)
Agriculture - products:
coconuts, tomatoes, melons, taro, breadfruit, fruits; pigs, chickens
Industries:
copra, fish, tourism, craft items from shell, wood, and pearls
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Exports:
$9 million f.o.b. (2000)
Exports - commodities:
copra cake, coconut oil, handicrafts, fish
Exports - partners:
US, Japan, Australia, China (2000)
Imports:
$54 million f.o.b. (2000)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels, beverages and tobacco