vote NA;
seats--(12 total)

_#_Member of: ACP, C (special), ESCAP, SPC, SPF, UPU

_#_Diplomatic representation: Ambassador (vacant);

US--none

_#_Flag: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side
quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with
nine yellow five-pointed stars symbolizing the nine islands

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: Tuvalu consists of a scattered group of nine coral atolls
with poor soil. The country has no known mineral resources and few
exports. Subsistence farming and fishing are the primary economic
activities. The islands are too small and too remote for development of
a tourist industry. Government revenues largely come from the sale of
stamps and coins and worker remittances. Substantial income is received
annually from an international trust fund established in 1987 by
Australia, New Zealand, and the UK and supported also by Japan and South
Korea.

_#_GNP: $4.6 million, per capita $530; real growth rate NA%
(1989 est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (1984)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $4.3 million; expenditures $4.3 million,
including capital expenditures of $NA (1989)

_#_Exports: $1.0 million (f.o.b., 1983 est.);

commodities--copra;

partners--Fiji, Australia, NZ

_#_Imports: $2.8 million (c.i.f., 1983 est.);

commodities--food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured
goods;

partners--Fiji, Australia, NZ

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA

_#_Electricity: 2,600 kW capacity; 3 million kWh produced,
330 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: fishing, tourism, copra

_#_Agriculture: coconuts, copra

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $1
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $96 million

_#_Currency: Tuvaluan dollar and Australian dollar (plural--dollars);
1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars ($A)
per US$1--1.2834 (January 1991), 1.2799 (1990), 1.2618 (1989), 1.2752
(1988), 1.4267 (1987), 1.4905 (1986), 1.4269 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: NA

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 8 km gravel

_#_Ports: Funafuti, Nukufetau

_#_Merchant marine: 1 passenger-cargo (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
1,043 GRT/450 DWT

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

_#_Airpor