onal product:
GDP - purchasing power equivalent - $128 million (1991)
National product real growth rate:
NA%
National product per capita:
$2,600 (1991)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7% (1990)
Unemployment rate:
12% (1991)
Budget:
revenues:
$97 million (includes $43,000,000 in local revenue and $54,000,000 in
grant revenue);
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY91)
Exports:
$306 million (f.o.b., 1989)
commodities:
canned tuna 93%
partners:
US 99.6%
Imports:
$360.3 million (c.i.f., 1989)
commodities:
materials for canneries 56%, food 8%, petroleum products 7%, machinery
and parts 6%
partners:
US 62%, Japan 9%, NZ 7%, Australia 11%, Fiji 4%, other 7%
External debt:
$NA
Industrial production:
growth rate NA%
Electricity:
capacity:
42,000 kW
production:
100 million kWh
consumption per capita:
2,020 kWh (1990)
Industries:
tuna canneries (largely dependent on foreign fishing vessels), meat
canning, handicrafts
Agriculture:
bananas, coconuts, vegetables, taro, breadfruit, yams, copra,
pineapples, papayas, dairy farming
Economic aid:
recipient:
$21,042,650 in operational funds and $1,227,000 in construction funds
for capital improvement projects from the US Department of Interior
(1991)
Currency:
1 United States dollar = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
US currency is used
Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September
@American Samoa, Communications
Railroads:
none
Highways:
total:
350 km
paved:
150 km
unpaved:
200 km
Ports:
Pago Pago, Ta'u, Ofu, Auasi, Aanu'u (new construction), Faleosao
Airports:
total:
4
usable:
4
with permanent-surface runways:
2
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440 to 3,659 m:
1 (international airport at Tafuna)
with runways 1,200 to 2,439 m:
0
note:
small airstrips on Fituita and Ofu
Telecommunications:
8,399 telephones; broadcast stations - 1 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; good telex,
telegraph, and facsimile services; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth
station, 1 COMSAT earth station
@American Samoa, Defense Forces
Note:
defense is the responsibility of the US
@Andorra, Geography
Location:
Southwestern Europe, between France and Spain
Map references:
Europe, Standard Time Zones of the World
Area:
total area:
450 sq km
land area:
450 sq km
comparative area:
slightly more than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land bound
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