FY07/08)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.9% (2007 est.)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
12.16% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$46.38 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$106.8 million (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$163.1 million (31 December 2007)
Agriculture - products:
squash, coconuts, copra, bananas, vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee,
ginger, black pepper; fish
Industries:
tourism, construction, fishing
Industrial production growth rate:
1% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
43 million kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
39.99 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2007)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
870 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - imports:
1,035 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2007 est.)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2007 est.)
Current account balance:
-$23 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$22 million f.o.b. (2006)
Exports - commodities:
squash, fish, vanilla beans, root crops
Exports - partners:
US 36.7%, Japan 21.6%, NZ 10.1%, Fiji 5.8%, Samoa 4.9% (2007)
Imports:
$139 million f.o.b. (2006)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals
Imports - partners:
Fiji 32.5%, NZ 27.5%, US 9%, Australia 7.4%, China 5% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$31.75 million (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$40.83 million (yearend, FY04/05)
Debt - external:
$80.7 million (2004)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
pa'anga (TOP)
Currency code:
TOP
Exchange rates:
pa'anga (TOP) per US dollar - NA (2007), 2.0277 (2006), 1.96 (2005),
1.9716 (2004), 2.142 (2003)
Communications
Tonga
Telephones - main lines in use:
21,000 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
46,500 (2007)
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