Economy - overview:
Coconuts, grown throughout the islands, are the sole cash crop. Small local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply, but additional food and most other necessities must be imported from Australia. There is a small tourist industry.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
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GDP - real growth rate: Labor force: Labor force - by occupation: Unemployment rate: Budget: Agriculture - products: Industries: Exports: Exports - commodities: Imports: Imports - commodities: Exchange rates:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Cocos (Keeling) Islands on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Economy 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cocos (Keeling) Islands Economy 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
1% (2003)
country comparison to the world: 185
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NA
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note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage workers; tourism employs others
60% (2000 est.)
country comparison to the world: 194
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revenues: $NA
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expenditures: $NA
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vegetables, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts
copra products and tourism
$NA
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copra
$NA
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foodstuffs
Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar -
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a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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