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ing power parity?$8,800 (1997 est.) GDP--composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA% Population below poverty line: NA% Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% Labor force: NA Labor force--by occupation: NA Unemployment rate: 7% Budget: revenues: $52.9 million expenditures: $59.9 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.) Industries: tourism, craft items (from shell, wood, pearls), some commercial fishing and agriculture Industrial production growth rate: NA% Electricity--production: 200 million kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 85% hydro: 15% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 200 million kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes Exports: $14.3 million (f.o.b., 1996) Exports--commodities: trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts Exports--partners: US, Japan Imports: $72.4 million (f.o.b., 1996) Imports--commodities: NA Imports--partners: US Debt--external: about $100 million (1989) Economic aid--recipient: $155.8 million (1995); note?the Compact of Free Association with the US, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, will provide Palau with up to $700 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing military facilities Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: US currency is used Fiscal year: 1 October--30 September Communications Telephones: 1,500 (1988 est.) Telephone system: domestic: NA international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 Radios: 9,000 (1993 est.) Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997) Televisions: 1,600 (1993 est.) Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 61 km paved: 36 km unpaved: 25 km Ports and harbors: Koror Merchant marine: none Airports: 3 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.) Airports--with unpaved runways: total: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (1998 est.) Military Military branches: NA Military expenditures--dollar figure: $NA Mi
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