tion by sector:
agriculture: 5%
industry: 35%
services: 60% (1992 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (1990)

Labor force: 70,044 (1988)
by occupation: agriculture 32%, industry 20%, services 40%, mines 8%
(1992)

Unemployment rate: 15% (1994)

Budget:
revenues: $540 million
expenditures: $540 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1991 est.)

Industries: nickel mining and smelting

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 250,000 kW
production: 1.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 6,178 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: vegetables; beef, other livestock products

Exports: $477 million (f.o.b., 1992)
commodities: nickel metal 22%, nickel ore
partners: France 32.2%, Japan 23.5%, Germany 6.7%, US 3.6%, India
1.2%

Imports: $926 million (c.i.f., 1992)
commodities: foods, fuels, minerals, machines, electrical equipment
partners: France 46.3%, ECE 14.9%, Australia 10.2%, Japan 6.3%, New
Zealand 4.4%

External debt: $NA

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 CFP franc (CFPF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per
US$1 - 91.00 (January 1996), 90.75 (1995), 100.93 (1994), 102.96
(1993), 96.24 (1992), 102.57 (1991); note - linked at the rate of
18.18 to the French franc

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 6,340 km
paved: 634 km
unpaved: 5,706 km (1987 est.)

Ports: Mueo, Noumea, Thio

Merchant marine:
total: 1 roll-on/roll-off ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,079
GRT/724 DWT (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 28
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 12
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 12 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 7 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 38,748 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 3, shortwave 0

Radios: 97,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 7

Televisions: 47,000 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: French Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force,
Gendarmerie); Police Force

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

Defense note: defense is the responsibility of France

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