the usual sense; some public works;
subsistence farming and fishing

Unemployment rate:
NA

Budget:
revenues: $729,900
expenditures: $878,100, including capital expenditures of NA
(FY94/95 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wide variety of fruits and vegetables, goats, chickens

Industries:
postage stamps, handicrafts

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
NA kWh; note - electric power is provided by a small diesel-powered
generator

Electricity - consumption:
NA kWh

Exports:
NA

Exports - commodities:
fruits, vegetables, curios, stamps

Exports - partners:
NA (2000)

Imports:
NA

Imports - commodities:
fuel oil, machinery, building materials, flour, sugar, other
foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
NA (2000)

Debt - external:
NA

Economic aid - recipient:
from UK'S DFID

Currency:
New Zealand dollar (NZD)

Currency code:
NZD

Exchange rates:
New Zealand dollars per US dollar - 1.7229 (2003), 2.162 (2002),
2.3776 (2001), 2.1863 (2000), 1.8886 (1999)

Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

Communications Pitcairn Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:
1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line); (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: only party line telephone service is available
for this small, closely related community
domestic: party line service only
international: country code - 672; satellite earth station (Inmarsat)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
NA

Television broadcast stations:
0 (1997)

Televisions:
NA

Internet country code:
.pn

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
NA

Internet users:
NA

Transportation Pitcairn Islands

Highways:
total: 6.4 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 6.4 km

Ports and harbors:
Adamstown (on Bounty Bay)

Merchant marine:
total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 3,313 GRT/5,651 DWT
by type: cargo 1 (2003 est.)

Airports:
none (2003 est.)

Military Pitcairn Islands

Military - note:
defense is the responsibility of the UK

Transnational Issues Pitcairn Islands

Disputes - international:
none

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@Poland

Introduction Poland

Background:
Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around the middle of
the 10th ce