million (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--coconut oil and cream 54%, taro 12%, copra 9%,
cocoa 3%;

partners--NZ 28%, EC 23%, American Samoa 23%, Australia 11%,
US 6% (1990)

_#_Imports: $87 million (c.i.f., 1990 est.);

commodities--intermediate goods 58%, food 17%, capital goods 12%;

partners--New Zealand 31%, Australia 20%, Japan 15%, Fiji 15%,
US 5%, EC 4% (1987)

_#_External debt: $83 million (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 4.3% (1990 est.); accounts for
14% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 29,000 kW capacity; 45 million kWh produced,
240 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: timber, tourism, food processing, fishing

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; coconuts, fruit (including
bananas, taro, yams)

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $18
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $291 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $4 million

_#_Currency: tala (plural--tala); 1 tala (WS$) = 100 sene

_#_Exchange rates: tala (WS$) per US$1--2.3170 (January 1991), 2.3095
(1990), 2.2686 (1989), 2.0790 (1988), 2.1204 (1987), 2.2351 (1986),
2.2437 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 2,042 km total; 375 km sealed; remainder mostly gravel,
crushed stone, or earth

_#_Ports: Apia

_#_Merchant marine: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 24,930
GRT/34,135 DWT; includes 2 container, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo

_#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 3 total, 3 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
none with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 7,500 telephones; 70,000 radios;
stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Department of Police and Prisons

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 49,119; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_World
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 510,072,000 km2; 361,132,000 km2 (70.8%) is water and
148,940,000 km2 (29.2%) is land

_#_Comparative area: land area about 16 times the size of the US

_#_Land boundaries: 442,000 km

_#_Coastline: 359,000 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: generally 24 nm, but varies from 4 nm to 25 nm;

Continental shelf: generally 200 nm, but some are 200 meters
in depth;

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