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    Niue Economy 2000

      Economy - overview: The economy is heavily dependent on aid and remittances from New Zealand. Government expenditures regularly exceed revenues, and the shortfall is made up by grants from New Zealand which are used to pay wages to public employees. Niue has cut government expenditures by reducing the public service by almost half. The agricultural sector consists mainly of subsistence gardening, although some cash crops are grown for export. Industry consists primarily of small factories to process passion fruit, lime oil, honey, and coconut cream. The sale of postage stamps to foreign collectors is an important source of revenue. The island in recent years has suffered a serious loss of population because of migration of Niueans to New Zealand. Efforts to increase GDP include the promotion of tourism and a financial services industry.

      GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.5 million (1994 est.)

      GDP - real growth rate: NA%

      GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $2,250 (1994 est.)

      GDP - composition by sector:
      agriculture: NA%
      industry: NA%
      services: NA%

      Population below poverty line: NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:
      lowest 10%: NA%
      highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1% (1995)

      Labor force: 450 (1992 est.)

      Labor force - by occupation: most work on family plantations; paid work exists only in government service, small industry, and the Niue Development Board

      Unemployment rate: NA%

      Budget:
      revenues: $NA
      expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

      Industries: tourism, handicrafts, food processing

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity - production: 3 million kWh (1998)

      Electricity - production by source:
      fossil fuel: 100%
      hydro: 0%
      nuclear: 0%
      other: 0% (1998)

      Electricity - consumption: 3 million kWh (1998)

      Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)

      Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)

      Agriculture - products: coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes, taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, beef cattle

      Exports: $117,500 (f.o.b., 1989)

      Exports - commodities: canned coconut cream, copra, honey, passion fruit products, pawpaws, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts

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

      Imports: $4.1 million (c.i.f., 1989)

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

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

      Debt - external: $NA

      Economic aid - recipient: $8.3 million (1995)

      Currency: 1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1 - 1.9451 (January 2000), 1.8889 (1999), 1.8629 (1998), 1.5082 (1997), 1.4543 (1996), 1.5235 (1995)

      Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

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