revenues: $865 million
expenditures: $644.1 million (1999)

Fiscal year:

calendar year

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

1.1% (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:

fish; coconuts, vanilla, vegetables, fruits, coffee; poultry, beef,
dairy products

Industries:

tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts, phosphates

Industrial production growth rate:

NA%

Electricity - production:

475 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - consumption:

441.8 million kWh (2006 est.)

Electricity - exports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

0 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - production by source:

fossil fuel: 60.7%
hydro: 39.3%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption:

6,082 bbl/day (2006 est.)

Oil - exports:

0 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - imports:

6,271 bbl/day (2005)

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2007 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Exports:

$211 million f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Exports - commodities:

cultured pearls, coconut products, mother-of-pearl, vanilla, shark
meat

Exports - partners:

France 46.3%, Japan 20.8%, Niger 12.8%, US 12.5% (2006)

Imports:

$1.706 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.)

Imports - commodities:

fuels, foodstuffs, machinery and equipment

Imports - partners:

France 52.7%, Singapore 14.9%, NZ 6.8%, US 6.6% (2006)

Economic aid - recipient:

$579.8 million (2004)

Debt - external:

$NA

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (XPF)

Currency code:

XPF

Exchange rates:

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (XPF) per US dollar - 87.59
(2007), 94.97 (2006), 95.89 (2005), 96.04 (2004), 105.66 (2003)
note: pegged at the rate of 119.25 XPF to the euro

Communications
French Polynesia

Telephones - main lines in use:

53,600 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

174,800 (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: NA
domestic: NA
international: country code - 689; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 2, FM 14, shortwave