aw, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts;

partners--NZ 89%, Fiji, Cook Islands, Australia

_#_Imports: $3.8 million (c.i.f., 1985);

commodities--food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery,
fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs;

partners--NZ 59%, Fiji 20%, Japan 13%, Western Samoa, Australia, US

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 1,500 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced,
1,490 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: tourist, handicrafts

_#_Agriculture: copra, coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes;
subsistence crops--taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs,
poultry, beef cattle

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $62 million

_#_Currency: New Zealand dollar (plural--dollars);
1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.6798 (January
1991), 1.6750 (1990), 1.6711 (1989), 1.5244 (1988), 1.6886 (1987), 1.9088
(1986), 2.0064 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 123 km all-weather roads, 106 km access and plantation
roads

_#_Ports: none; offshore anchorage only

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway of 1,650 m

_#_Telecommunications: single-line telephone system connects all
villages on island; 383 telephones; 1,000 radio receivers (1987 est.);
stations--1 AM, 1 FM, no TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Police Force

_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of New Zealand
_%_
_@_Norfolk Island
(territory of Australia)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 34.6 km2; land area: 34.6 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 0.2 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 32 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 3 nm

_#_Climate: subtropical, mild, little seasonal temperature variation

_#_Terrain: volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains

_#_Natural resources: fish

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
25%; forest and woodland 0%; other 75%

_#_Environment: subject to typhoons (especially May to July)

_#_Note: located 1,575 km east of Australia in the South Pacific
Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 2,576 (July 1991), growth rate NEGL% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: NA births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: NA dea