GDP: purchasing power parity - $485 million (1998 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 1.8% (1998 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,100 (1998 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
40%
industry:
25%
services:
35% (1996 est.)
Population below poverty line: NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.2% (1998 est.)
Labor force: 82,500 (1991 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 65%, services 30%, industry 5% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$52 million
expenditures:
$99 million, including capital expenditures of $37 million (FY96/97 est.)
Industries: timber, tourism, food processing, fishing
Industrial production growth rate: 14% (1996 est.)
Electricity - production: 65 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
61.54%
hydro:
38.46%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 60 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: coconuts, bananas, taro, yams
Exports: $20.3 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports - commodities: coconut oil and cream, copra, fish, beer
Exports - partners: American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, US, Germany
Imports: $96.6 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs
Imports - partners: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Fiji, US
Debt - external: $156 million (1997 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $42.9 million (1995)
Currency: 1 tala (WS$) = 100 sene
Exchange rates: tala (WS$) per US$1 - 3.0460 (January 2000), 3.0120 (1999), 2.9429 (1998), 2.5562 (1997), 2.4618 (1996), 2.4722 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year