Facts
GDP (nominal exchange rate): US$8.82 billion (in 2007)
GDP - real growth rate: 4.6% (in 2007)
GDP - per capita (nominal exchange rate): US$36,376 (in 2007)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 5%
industry: 30%
services: 65% (1997 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): -0.6% (2000 est.)
Labor force: 78 990 (including 11 300 unemployed, 2004)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 20%, industry 20%, services 60% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate: 17.1% (2004)
Budget:
revenues: US$856.3 million
expenditures: US$836.5 million (1996 est.)
Industries: nickel mining and smelting
Industrial production growth rate: -0.6% (1996)
Electricity - production: 1.581 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 65.79%
hydro: 34.21%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 1,47 billion kWh (2003)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: vegetables; beef, deer, other livestock products
Exports: US$2.11 billion (in 2007)
Exports - commodities: ferronickels, nickel ore, fish
Exports - partners: Japan 22.4%, Metropolitan France 15.2%, China 14.2%, Taiwan 13.2%, other European countries 20.5%, Oceania 5.9%, Africa 4.8%, Americas 2.7%, other Asian countries 1.1% (2007)
Imports: US$2.88 billion (in 2007)
Imports - commodities: foods, machinery and equipment, fuels, minerals
Imports - partners: Metropolitan France 26.6%, other European countries 16.1%, Singapore 13.6%, Australia 10.7, New Zealand 4.0%, United States 3.2%, Japan 3.0%, other countries 22.7% (2007)
Debt - external: US$79 million (1998 est.) / €62 million (exchange rate as of 2006-05-07)
Economic aid - recipient: US$770 million from France (1998) / €605 million (exchange rate as of 2006-05-07)
Currency: 1 CFP franc = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: CFP franc per US$1 – 95.89 (2005), 96.04 (2004), 105.66 (2003), 126.71 (2002), 133.26 (2001), 117.67 (January 2000), 111.93 (1999), 107.25 (1998), 106.11 (1997), 93.00 (1996), 90.75 (1995); note - linked at the rate of 1000 CFP to 8.38 euro
Fiscal year: calendar year
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