DP - purchasing power parity - $80.8 million (1992
est.)

National product real growth rate: -1.5% (1992)

National product per capita: $6,000 (1992 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Unemployment rate: 12% (1992)

Budget:
revenues: $20.3 million
expenditures: $44 million, including capital expenditures of $23.9
million (1989 est.)

Exports: $6.8 million (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: lobster, dried and fresh conch, conch shells
partners: US, UK

Imports: $42.8 million (1993)
commodities: food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures,
construction materials
partners: US, UK

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 9,050 kW
production: 11.1 million kWh
consumption per capita: 860 kWh (1992)

Industries: fishing, tourism, offshore financial services

Agriculture: subsistence farming prevails, based on corn and beans;
fishing more important than farming; not self-sufficient in food

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for South American narcotics
destined for the US

Economic aid:
recipient: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-89), $110 million

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Turks And Caicos Islands:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 121 km (including 24 km tarmac)
paved: NA
unpaved: NA

Ports: Cockburn Harbour, Grand Turk, Providenciales, Salt Cay

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 7
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2

@Turks And Caicos Islands:Communications

Telephone system: 1,446 telephones; fair cable and radio services
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 2 submarine cables; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth
station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 0, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: NA
televisions: NA

@Turks And Caicos Islands:Defense Forces

Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

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TUVALU

@Tuvalu:Geography

Location: Oceania, island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the
South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to
Australia

Map references: Oceania