Labor force:
total: 82,500 (1991 est.)
by occupation: agriculture 65%, services 30%, industry 5% (1995 est.)
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues: $52 million
expenditures: $99 million, including capital expenditures of $37
million (FY96/97 est.)
Industries: timber, tourism, food processing, fishing
Industrial production growth rate: 14% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 21,700 kW (1996 est.)
Electricity-production: 56.3 million kWh (1996 est.)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 310 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: coconuts, bananas, taro, yams
Exports:
total value: $10 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: coconut oil and cream, copra, fish, beer (1996)
partners: New Zealand 48%, American Samoa 11%, Australia 10%, Germany
7%, US 3% (1996)
Imports:
total value: $100 million (c.i.f., 1996)
commodities: intermediate goods 50%, food 26%, capital goods 12%
(1996)
partners: New Zealand 37%, Australia 22%, Fiji 15%, US 13%
Debt-external: $169.4 million (1996 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA; $8.7 million bilateral aid from Australia (FY96/97
est.); $5 million bilateral aid from NZ (FY95/96)
Currency: 1 tala (WS$) = 100 sene
Exchange rates: tala (WS$) per US$1-2.7556 (January 1998), 2.5562
(1997), 2.4618 (1996), 2.4722 (1995), 2.5349 (1994), 2.5681 (1993)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 7,500 (1988 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station-1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0
Radios: 76,000 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 0
Televisions: 6,000 (1992 est.)
@Samoa:Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 790 km
paved: 332 km
unpaved: 458 km (1996 est.)
Ports and harbors: Apia, Asau, Mulifanua, Salelologa
Merchant marine:
total: 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
3,838 GRT/5,536 DWT (1997 est.)
Airports: 3 (1997 est.)
Airports-with paved runways:
total: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (1997 est.)
Airports-with unpaved runways:
total: 2
under 914 m: 2 (1997 est.)
@Samoa:Military
Military branches: no regular armed services; Samoa Police Force
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $NA
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: NA%
@Samoa:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: none
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@San Marino:Geography
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