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Economy
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.
$18 million (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 
225
$NA
NA%
$2,500 (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 177
agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%
2,486
country comparison to the world: 223
note: 1,200 work offshore (1998 est.)
agriculture: 6%
industry: 48%
services: 46% (1987 est.)
14% (1998 est.)
country comparison to the world: 142
NA%
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
3.2% (1997 est.)
country comparison to the world: 94
coffee, corn, potatoes, vegetables; timber; fish, lobster; livestock
construction, crafts (furniture, lacework, fancy woodwork), fishing, philatelic sales
NA%
8 million kWh (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 210
7.44 million kWh (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 211
0 kWh (2008 est.)
0 kWh (2008 est.)
0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 139
0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 207
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 182
80 bbl/day (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 201
0 bbl (1 January 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 132
0 cu m (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 139
0 cu m (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 158
0 cu m (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 137
0 cu m (2008 est.)
country comparison to the world: 142
0 cu m (1 January 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 108
$19 million (2004 est.)
country comparison to the world: 207
fish (frozen, canned, and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), coffee, handicrafts
$45 million (2004 est.)
country comparison to the world: 216
food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed, building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts
$NA
Saint Helenian pounds (SHP) per US dollar - 0.6494 (2009), 0.5302 (2008), 0.4993 (2007), 0.5418 (2006), 0.5462 (2004)
note: the Saint Helenian pound is on par with the British pound
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