ges sent home by those working abroad
(mostly workers in the phosphate industry and sailors)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $4.3 million
expenditures: $4.3 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1989 est.)
Industries: fishing, tourism, copra
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity - capacity: 2,600 kW (1995)
Electricity - production: 3 million kWh (1995)
Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh
Agriculture - products: coconuts; fish
Exports:
total value: $165,000 (f.o.b., 1989)
commodities: copra
partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ
Imports:
total value: $4.4 million (c.i.f., 1989)
commodities : food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured
goods
partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ
Debt - external: $NA
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $1.725 million from Australia (FY96/97 est.); $1.7
million from NZ (FY95/96)
Currency: 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100
cents
Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars ($A) per
US$1 - 1.2835 (January 1997), 1.2773 (1996), 1.3486 (1995), 1.3667
(1994), 1.4704 (1993), 1.3600 (1992)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Tuvalu:Communications
Telephones: 130 (1983 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands
international: NA
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
Radios: 4,000 (1993 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 0
Televisions: NA
@Tuvalu:Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 8 km (1995 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Ports and harbors: Funafuti, Nukufetau
Merchant marine:
total: 13 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 49,488 GRT/80,968 DWT
ships by type: cargo 7, chemical tanker 4, oil tanker 1,
passenger-cargo 1 (1996 est.)
Airports: 1 (1996 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1996 est.)
Military
Military branches: no regular military forces; Police Force (consists
of full-time personnel 45, part-time personnel 16)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: NA
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males: NA
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $NA
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA%
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
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UGANDA
@Uganda:Geography
Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya
Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 32
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