product real growth rate: 2.5% (1991 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% Unemployment rate: NEGL% Budget: revenues $112 million; expenditures $232 million, including oil re-exports (f.o.b., 1991) commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, foodstuffs, chemicals partners: Brazil 23%, Argentina 17%, US 5%, Asia 2% Imports: 527.2 million (f.o.b., 1986) commodities: NA partners: NA Imports: $751 million (c.i.f., 1985) commodities: copra, handicrafts partners: NZ Imports: $NA commodities: NA partners: US 49%, UK, EC, Mexico (1991) Imports: $100 million (1989) Industrial production: growth rate -19% (1992) National product real growth rate: 0.88% (1993 est.) Death rate: 5.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $22 million, 1.6% of GDP (1990 est.) Exports: $3.5 billion (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: copper, fishmeal, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products 443 km Coastline: 499 km Maritime claims: none; landlocked International disputes: none Climate: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade winds Terrain: flat to rolling coastal plains and sand islands Natural resources: phosphates, potash, shale oil (60%
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