_#_Member of: none

_#_Diplomatic representation: none (territory of Australia)

_#_Flag: the flag of Australia is used

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: Phosphate mining had been the only significant
economic activity, but in December 1987 the Australian Government
closed the mine as no longer economically viable. Plans have been
under way to reopen the mine and also to build a casino and hotel to
develop tourism, with a possible opening date during the first half of
1992.

_#_GDP: $NA, per capita $NA; real growth rate NA%

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: 0%

_#_Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital
expenditures of $NA

_#_Exports: $NA;

commodities--phosphate;

partners--Australia, NZ

_#_Imports: $NA;

commodities--NA;

partners--NA

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 11,000 kW capacity; 30 million kWh produced,
13,170 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: phosphate extraction (near depletion)

_#_Agriculture: NA

_#_Economic aid: none

_#_Currency: Australian dollar (plural--dollars); 1 Australian dollar
($A) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Australian dollars ($A) per US$1--1.2834 (January
1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989), 1.2752 (1988), 1.4267 (1987), 1.4905
(1986), 1.4269 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Ports: Flying Fish Cove

_#_Airports: 1 usable with permanent-surface runway 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 4,000 radios (1982)

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of Australia
_%_
_@_Clipperton Island
(French possession)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 7 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 12 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 11.1 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claimed by Mexico

_#_Climate: tropical

_#_Terrain: coral atoll

_#_Natural resources: none

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other (coral) 100%

_#_Environment: reef about 8 km in circumference

_#_Note: located 1,120 km southwest of Mexico in the North Pacific
Ocean; also called Ile de la Passion

_*_People
_#_Population: uninhabited

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none

_#_Type: French posse