small, growing, environmentally fragile, Pacific island economy; major financial support from remittances, aid, and phosphate mining fund; tourism and fishing industries; poor business climate; inadequate anticorruption efforts; poor fiscal management
$249.64 million (2021 est.)
$245.951 million (2020 est.)
$247.304 million (2019 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
1.5% (2021 est.)
-0.55% (2020 est.)
-0.54% (2019 est.)
$1,900 (2021 est.)
$1,900 (2020 est.)
$2,000 (2019 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
$197 million (2017 est.)
-1.81% (2019 est.)
0.56% (2018 est.)
0.36% (2017 est.)
agriculture: 23% (2016 est.)
industry: 7% (2016 est.)
services: 70% (2016 est.)
coconuts, roots/tubers nes, bananas, vegetables, taro, tropical fruit, poultry, pork, nuts, eggs
fishing, handicrafts
-1.57% (2020 est.)
39,000 (2010 est.)
note: economically active, not including subsistence farmers
agriculture: 15%
industry: 10%
services: 75% (2010)
30.6% (2010 est.)
6.1% (2005)
total: 22.5%
male: 21.2%
female: 24.6% (2019 est.)
N/A
27.8 (2019 est.)
lowest 10%: NA
highest 10%: NA
revenues: $281 million (2017 est.)
expenditures: $205 million (2017 est.)
-64.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
26.3% of GDP (2017 est.)
22.9% of GDP (2016 est.)
26.28% (of GDP) (2020 est.)
N/A
$20.251 million (2021 est.)
$71.279 million (2020 est.)
$86.818 million (2019 est.)
$10.754 million (2021 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$21.228 million (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$32.516 million (2019 est.)
Thailand 53%, Philippines 17%, South Korea 10%, Japan 9% (2019)
skipjacks, tuna, fish fillets, ships, coconut oil, copra (2021)
$201.984 million (2021 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$148.77 million (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$177.149 million (2019 est.)
China 20%, Fiji 19%, Australia 12%, Taiwan 11%, South Korea 11%, New Zealand 7%, Japan 5% (2019)
refined petroleum, netting, raw sugar, rice, poultry meats (2019)
$0 (31 December 2017 est.)
$8.37 million (31 December 2010 est.)
$40.9 million (2016 est.)
$32.3 million (2015 est.)
Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar -
1.331 (2021 est.)
1.453 (2020 est.)
1.439 (2019 est.)
1.338 (2018 est.)
1.305 (2017 est.)
note: the Australian dollar circulates as legal tender
NOTE: The information regarding Kiribati on this page is re-published from the 2023 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kiribati 2023 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kiribati 2023 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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