black pepper; fish

Industries:
tourism, fishing

Industrial production growth rate:
1% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
41 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
38.13 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
900 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-4.321 million (FY04/05)

Exports:
$34 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
squash, fish, vanilla beans, root crops

Exports - partners:
Japan 41.8%, US 33.4%, NZ 6.3% (2005)

Imports:
$122 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, chemicals

Imports - partners:
NZ 33.4%, Fiji 26.6%, Australia 10.5%, US 8.4% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$40.83 million (yearend)

Debt - external:
$80.7 million (2004)

Economic aid - recipient:
$19.3 million Australia $5.5 million, New Zealand $2.3 million
(FY01/02) (2004)

Currency (code):
pa'anga (TOP)

Currency code:
TOP

Exchange rates:
pa'anga per US dollar - 1.96 (2005), 1.9716 (2004), 2.142 (2003),
2.1952 (2002)

Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June

Communications Tonga

Telephones - main lines in use:
11,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
16,400 (2004)

Telephone system:
general assessment: competition between Tonga Telecommunications
Corporation (TCC) and Shoreline Communications Tonga (SCT) is
accelerating expansion of telecommunications; SCT recently granted
authority to develop high-speed digital service for telephone,
Internet, and television
domestic: fully automatic switched network
international: country code - 676; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2004)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2004)

Radios:
61,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (2004)

Televisions:
2,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.to

Internet hosts:
18,775 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
3,000 (2004)

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