Economy - overview:
Tokelau's small size (three villages), isolation, and lack of
resources greatly restrain economic development and confine
agriculture to the subsistence level. The people rely heavily on aid
from New Zealand - about $4 million annually - to maintain public
services, with annual aid being substantially greater than GDP. The
principal sources of revenue come from sales of copra, postage
stamps, souvenir coins, and handicrafts. Money is also remitted to
families from relatives in New Zealand.
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $1.5 million (1993 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
NA%
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,000 (1993 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):
NA%
Labor force:
NA
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues: $430,830
expenditures: $2.8 million, including capital expenditures of
$37,300 (1987 est.)
Industries:
small-scale enterprises for copra production, woodworking, plaited
craft goods; stamps, coins; fishing
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
NA kWh
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 100%
hydro: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption:
NA kWh
Agriculture - products:
coconuts, copra, breadfruit, papayas, bananas; pigs, poultry, goats
Exports:
$98,000 f.o.b. (1983)
Exports - commodities:
stamps, copra, handicrafts
Exports - partners:
NZ (2000)
Imports:
$323,000 c.i.f. (1983)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, building materials, fuel
Imports - partners:
NZ (2000)
Debt - external:
$0
Economic aid - recipient:
from New Zealand about $4 million annually
Currency:
New Zealand dollar (NZD)
Currency code:
NZD
Exchange rates:
New Zealand dollars per US dollar - 2.154 (2002), 2.3776 (2001),
2.1863 (2000), 1.8886 (1999), 1.8632 (1998), 1.5083 (1997)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March