New Caledonia/

New Caledonia has about 25% of the world’s known nickel resources. Only a small amount of the land is suitable for cultivation, and food accounts for about 20% of imports. In addition to nickel, substantial financial support from France - equal to more than 15% of GDP - and tourism are keys to the health of the economy. Substantial new investment in the nickel industry, combined with the recovery of global nickel prices, brightens the economic outlook for the next several years.

$3.158 billion (2003 est.)

$3.3 billion (2003 est.)

NA%

$15,000 (2003 est.)

102,600 (2007)

17.1% (2004)

NA%

1.4% (2000 est.)

$NA

vegetables; beef, deer, other livestock products; fish

nickel mining and smelting

1.825 billion kWh (2007 est.)

1.697 billion kWh (2007 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 kWh (2008 est.)

0 bbl/day (2009 est.)

13,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)

645 bbl/day (2007 est.)

14,430 bbl/day (2007 est.)

0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (2008 est.)

0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.)

$1.341 billion (2006)

ferronickels, nickel ore, fish

France 27.52%, Japan 14.87%, Taiwan 10.51%, Spain 7.74%, China 7.31%, Australia 6.64%, Belgium 5.13%, South Korea 4.2% (2009)

$1.998 billion (2006)

machinery and equipment, fuels, chemicals, foodstuffs

France 39.89%, Singapore 14.12%, Australia 12.5%, NZ 5.42% (2009)

$79 million (1998 est.)

Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (XPF) per US dollar - 87.59 (2007), 94.97 (2006), 95.89 (2005), 96.04 (2004), 105.66 (2003)