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_#_Member of: FZ, SPC

_#_Diplomatic representation: as an overseas territory of France,
local interests are represented in the US by France

_#_Flag: the flag of France is used

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: The economy is limited to traditional subsistence
agriculture, with about 80% of the labor force earning its livelihood
from agriculture (coconuts and vegetables), livestock (mostly pigs),
and fishing. About 4% of the population is employed in government.
Revenues come from French Government subsidies, licensing of fishing
rights to Japan and South Korea, import taxes, and remittances from
expatriate workers in New Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna imports food,
fuel, clothing, machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports
are negligible, consisting of copra and handicrafts.

_#_GDP: $7.5 million, per capita $470; real growth rate NA%
(1990 est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $2.7 million; expenditures $2.7 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1983)

_#_Exports: negligible;

commodities--copra, handicrafts;

partners--NA

_#_Imports: $6.9 million (c.i.f., 1983);

commodities--foodstuffs, manufactured goods, transportation
equipment, fuel;

partners--France, Australia, New Zealand

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 1,200 kW capacity; 1 million kWh produced,
70 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber

_#_Agriculture: dominated by coconut production, with subsistence
crops of yams, taro, bananas, and herds of pigs and goats

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $118 million

_#_Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (plural--francs);
1 CFP franc (CFPF) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per
US$1--93.28 (January 1991), 99.0 (1990), 115.99 (1989), 108.30 (1988),
109.27 (1987), 125.92 (1986), 163.35 (1985); note--linked at the rate of
18.18 to the French franc

_#_Fiscal year: NA

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 100 km on Ile Uvea, 16 km sealed; 20 km earth surface
on Ile Futuna

_#_Inland waterways: none

_#_Ports: Mata-Utu, Leava

_#_Airports: 2 total; 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

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