upper-middle-income French Pacific territorial economy; large tourism presence that was hit hard by COVID-19; nickel and other metals mining operations; continuing French subsidies; large exporter of nickel to China
$11.11 billion (2017 est.)
$10.89 billion (2016 est.)
$10.77 billion (2015 est.)
note: data are in 2015 dollars
2% (2017 est.)
1.1% (2016 est.)
3.2% (2015 est.)
$31,100 (2015 est.)
$32,100 (2014 est.)
$29,800 (2012 est.)
$9.77 billion (2017 est.)
1.4% (2017 est.)
0.6% (2016 est.)
agriculture: 1.4% (2017 est.)
industry: 26.4% (2017 est.)
services: 72.1% (2017 est.)
household consumption: 64.3% (2017 est.)
government consumption: 24% (2017 est.)
investment in fixed capital: 38.4% (2017 est.)
investment in inventories: 0% (2017 est.)
exports of goods and services: 18.7% (2017 est.)
imports of goods and services: -45.5% (2017 est.)
coconuts, vegetables, maize, fruit, beef, pork, potatoes, bananas, eggs, yams
nickel mining and smelting
3.5% (2017 est.)
132,200 (2021 est.)
agriculture: 2.7%
industry: 22.4%
services: 74.9% (2010)
16.57% (2021 est.)
16.43% (2020 est.)
14.91% (2019 est.)
total: 41%
male: 39.2%
female: 43.2% (2021 est.)
17% (2008)
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
revenues: $1.995 billion (2015 est.)
expenditures: $1.993 billion (2015 est.)
0% (of GDP) (2015 est.)
6.5% of GDP (2015 est.)
6.5% of GDP (2014 est.)
20.4% (of GDP) (2015 est.)
calendar year
-$654.237 million (2016 est.)
-$1.861 billion (2013 est.)
$2.207 billion (2014 est.)
China 59%, South Korea 14%, Japan 11% (2019)
iron alloys, nickel, essential oils, recreational boats, shrimp (2021)
$2.715 billion (2015 est.)
$4.4 billion (2014 est.)
France 43%, Australia 12%, Singapore 12%, China 6% (2019)
refined petroleum, aircraft, coal, cars, packaged medicines (2019)
$112 million (31 December 2013 est.)
$79 million (31 December 1998 est.)
Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (XPF) per US dollar -
100.88 (2021 est.)
104.711 (2020 est.)
106.589 (2019 est.)
101.047 (2018 est.)
105.633 (2017 est.)
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