Economy - overview:
The economy depends largely on financial assistance from the UK, which amounted to about $27 million in FY06/07 or more than twice the level of annual budgetary revenues. The local population earns income from fishing, raising livestock, and sales of handicrafts. Because there are few jobs, 25% of the work force has left to seek employment on Ascension Island, on the Falklands, and in the UK.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (official exchange rate): GDP - real growth rate: GDP - per capita (PPP): GDP - composition by sector: Labor force: Labor force - by occupation: Unemployment rate: Population below poverty line: Household income or consumption by percentage share: Budget: Inflation rate (consumer prices): Agriculture - products: Industries: Industrial production growth rate: Electricity - production: Electricity - consumption: Electricity - exports: Electricity - imports: Oil - production: Oil - consumption: Oil - exports: Oil - imports: Natural gas - production: Natural gas - consumption: Natural gas - exports: Natural gas - imports: Natural gas - proved reserves: Exports: Exports - commodities: Imports: Imports - commodities: Debt - external: Exchange rates:
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 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 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha Economy 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha Economy 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
$18 million (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 224
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$NA
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NA%
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$2,500 (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 178
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agriculture: NA%
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industry: NA%
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services: NA%
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2,486
country comparison to the world: 223
note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
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agriculture: 6%
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industry: 48%
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services: 46% (1987 est.)
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14% (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 141
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NA%
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lowest 10%: NA%
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highest 10%: NA%
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revenues: $10.58 million
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expenditures: $26 million
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note: revenue data reflect locally raised revenues only; the budget deficit is resolved by grant aid from the United Kingdom (FY06/07 est.)
3.2% (1997 est.)
country comparison to the world: 58
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coffee, corn, potatoes, vegetables; timber; fish, lobster; livestock
construction, crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fishing, philatelic sales
NA%
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8 million kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 211
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7.44 million kWh (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 212
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0 kWh (2009 est.)
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0 kWh (2009 est.)
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0 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 131
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100 bbl/day (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 209
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0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 208
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84.68 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 206
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 121
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 126
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 176
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 125
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0 cu m (1 January 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 188
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$19 million (2004 est.)
country comparison to the world: 207
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fish (frozen, canned, and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), coffee, handicrafts
$45 million (2004 est.)
country comparison to the world: 217
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food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed, building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts
$NA
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Saint Helenian pounds (SHP) 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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