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APPENDIX 1


SOUTH PACIFIC SMALL ISLANDS: BASIC INDICATORS

Country Mid-1994 Population (thousand)1 Population growth rate1 Surface (km2)1 EEZ (km2)2 Per caput GDP (US$)1 Per caputODA (US$)3 Trade Balance (projec-tion)4 Debt service% of export5
Cook Islands 19 1.1% 240 1 830 3 416 723.1   ..
Fiji 769 2.0% 18,272 1 135 1 991 78.7 -216 11.7
Kiribati 78 1.9% 690 3 550 461 200.6 .. 5.6
Marshall Islands 54 4.2% 181 .. 1 576 639.9 .. ..
Micronesia (Fed. States of) 107 3.4% 701 .. 1 474 558.0 .. ..
Nauru 10 1.2% 21 431 .. 19.0 1991 .. ..
Palau 16 1.8% 494 .. 3 289 .. .. ..
Papua New Guinea 4,246 2.3% 462,243 .. 999 52.2 1991 76 31.3
Samoa 163 0.3% 3,935 96 722 261.5 -63 11.7
Solomon Islands 368 3.5% 27,556 1 116 529 177.8 -11 12.4
Tonga 99 0.5% 699 596 1 396 290.9 -56 3.9
Tuvalu 10 2.3% 86 857 1 068 421.3 .. ..
Vanuatu 165 2.5% 11,880 857 1 020 183.3 -55 45.7

1. Estimates based on ESCAP Population Data Sheet (1994) and South Pacific Commission (1993)
2. Economic Exclusion Zone. Source: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
3. Per caput official development assistance (ODA). Source: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (1995) and Waysata World Fact Book (1993)
4. Source: ADB, Asian Development Outlook (1991)
5. Debt service (for goods and services). Sources: World Bank and UNCTAD (1990)

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