lands. The
number of visitors has increased steadily over the years and reached
29,000 in FY89. Revenues from tourism have given the island a
favorable balance of trade and helped the agricultural sector to
become self-sufficient in the production of beef, poultry, and eggs.
National product:
GDP $NA
National product real growth rate:
NA%
National product per capita:
$NA
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
NA%
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$4.2 million, including capital expenditures of $400,000 (1989 est.)
Exports:
$1.7 million (f.o.b., FY86)
commodities:
postage stamps, seeds of the Norfolk Island pine and Kentia palm,
small quantities of avocados
partners:
Australia, Pacific Islands, NZ, Asia, Europe
Imports:
$15.6 million (c.i.f., FY86)
commodities:
NA
partners:
Australia, Pacific Islands, NZ, Asia, Europe
External debt:
$NA
Industrial production:
growth rate NA%
Electricity:
capacity:
7,000 kW
production:
8 million kWh
consumption per capita:
3,160 kWh (1990)
Industries:
tourism
Agriculture:
Norfolk Island pine seed, Kentia palm seed, cereals, vegetables,
fruit, cattle, poultry
Economic aid:
none
Currency:
1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.4364 (January 1994), 1.4704
(1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2835 (1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

@Norfolk Island, Communications

Highways:
total:
80 km
paved:
53 km
unpaved:
earth, coral 27 km
Ports:
none; loading jetties at Kingston and Cascade
Airports:
total:
1
usable:
1
with permanent-surface runways:
1
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
0
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
1
Telecommunications:
1,500 radio receivers (1982); radio link service with Sydney; 987
telephones (1983); broadcast stations - 1 AM, no FM, no TV

@Norfolk Island, Defense Forces

Note:
defense is the responsibility of Australia

@Northern Mariana Islands

Header
Affiliation:
(commonwealth in political union with the US)

@Northern Mariana Islands, Geography

Location:
Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, 5,635 km
west-southwest of Honolulu, about three-quarters of the way between
Hawaii and the Philippines
Map references:
Oceania
Area:
total area:
477 sq km
land area:
477 sq km
comparative ar