The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

force:

       70,000 (1996)

      Labor force - by occupation:

       agriculture 13%, industry 19%, services 68% (2002)

      Unemployment rate:

       11.8% (1994)

      Population below poverty line:

       NA%

      Household income or consumption by percentage share:

       lowest 10%: NA%

       highest 10%: NA%

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       1.5% (2002 est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $1 billion

       expenditures: $900 million, including capital expenditures of $185

       million (1996)

      Agriculture - products: coconuts, vanilla, vegetables, fruits; poultry, beef, dairy products, coffee

      Industries:

       tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts, phosphates

      Industrial production growth rate:

       NA%

      Electricity - production:

       380 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 60.7% hydro: 39.3% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       353.4 million kWh (2002)

      Electricity - exports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2002)

      Oil - production:

       0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       4,750 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA

      Oil - imports:

       NA

      Exports:

       $244 million f.o.b. (2002)

      Exports - commodities:

       cultured pearls, coconut products, mother-of-pearl, vanilla, shark

       meat

      Exports - partners:

       France 36.6%, Japan 22.7%, US 16.1%, Niger 13%, Thailand 4.1% (2004)

      Imports:

       $1.341 billion f.o.b. (2002)

      Imports - commodities:

       fuels, foodstuffs, machinery and equipment

      Imports - partners:

       France 47.6%, New Zealand 8.8%, Singapore 8.4%, Australia 8.3%, US

       7.1% (2004)

      Debt - external:

       NA

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $367 million (1997)

      Currency (code):

       Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (XPF)

      Currency code:

       XPF

      Exchange rates:

       Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (XPF) per US dollar - 96.04

       (2004), 105.66 (2003), 126.71 (2002), 133.26 (2001), 129.43 (2000)

       note: pegged at the rate of 119.25 XPF to the euro

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications French Polynesia

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       52,500 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       90,000 (2002)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: NA

       domestic: NA

       international: country code - 689; satellite earth station - 1

       Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 2, FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)

      Radios:

       128,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       7 (plus 17 low-power repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       40,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .pf

      Internet hosts:

       5,123 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       2 (2000)

      Internet users:

       35,000 (2002)

      Transportation French Polynesia

      Highways: total: 2,590 km paved: 1,735 km unpaved: 855 km (1999)

      Ports and harbors:

       Papeete

      Merchant marine:

       total: 15 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 17,537 GRT/15,150 DWT

       by type: cargo 4, passenger 4, passenger/cargo 5, refrigerated cargo

       1, roll on/roll off 1

       foreign-owned: 1 (France 1) (2005)

      Airports:

       50 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 37 over 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 23 under 914 m: 7 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 13 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 8 (2004 est.)

      Heliports: 1 (2004 est.)

      Military French Polynesia

      Military branches:

       no regular military forces; Gendarmerie and National Police Force

      Military - note:

       defense is the responsibility of France

      Transnational Issues French Polynesia

      Disputes - international: none

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      @French Southern and Antarctic Lands

      Introduction French Southern and Antarctic Lands

      Background:

       The Southern Lands consist of two archipelagos, Iles Crozet and

       Iles Kerguelen, and two volcanic islands, Ile Amsterdam and Ile

       Saint-Paul. They contain no permanent inhabitants and are visited

       only by researchers studying the native fauna. The Antarctic portion

       consists of "Adelie Land," a thin slice of the Antarctic continent

       discovered and claimed by the French in 1840.

      Geography French Southern and Antarctic Lands

      Location:

       southeast of Africa, islands in the southern Indian Ocean, about

       equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia; note - French

       Southern and Antarctic Lands include Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul,

       Iles Crozet, and Iles Kerguelen in the southern Indian