Statistical information Wallis and Futuna 1992Wallis%20and%20Futuna

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Wallis and Futuna - Introduction 1992
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Background: Although discovered by the Dutch and the British in the 17th and 18th centuries it was the French who declared a protectorate over the islands in 1842. In 1959 the inhabitants of the islands voted to become a French overseas territory.


Wallis and Futuna - Geography 1992
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Location

Geographic coordinates

Map reference

Area
Total: 274 km²
Land: 274 km²; includes Ile Uvea (Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20 islets
Comparative: slightly larger than Washington, DC

Land boundaries: none

Coastline: 129 km

Maritime claims
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Disputes: none

Climate: tropical; hot, rainy season (November to April; cool, dry season (May to October)

Terrain: volcanic origin; low hills

Elevation

Natural resources: negligible
Land use

Land use: arable land: 5%; permanent crops: 20%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 75%

Irrigated land

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Wallis and Futuna - People 1992
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Population: 17,095 (July 1992), growth rate 3.0% (1992)

Nationality:
noun - Wallisian(s), Futunan(s), or Wallis and Futuna
Islanders; adjective - Wallisian, Futunan, or Wallis and Futuna Islander


Ethnic groups: almost entirely Polynesian

Languages: French, Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language)

Religions: largely Roman Catholic

Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Birth rate: 27 births/1000 population (1992)

Death rate: 6 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Net migration rate: 8 migrants/1000 population (1992)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues: both island groups have fringing reefs
Current issues note: located 4,600 km southwest of Honolulu in the South Pacific Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand

Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 29 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 71 years female (1992)

Total fertility rate: 3.6 children born/woman (1992)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: 50% (male 50%, female 51%) at all ages can read and write (1969)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Wallis and Futuna - Government 1992
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Country name
Conventional long form: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands

Government type: overseas territory of France

Capital: Mata Utu (on Ile Uvea)

Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France)

Dependent areas

Independence: none (overseas territory of France)

National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)

Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)

Legal system: French

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: universal adult at age 18
Territorial Assembly: last held 15 March 1987 (next to be held NA March 1992); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (20 total) RPR 7, UPL 5, UDF 4, UNF 4
French Senate:
last held NA September 1989 (next to be held by NA
September 1992); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (1 total)
RPR 1

French National Assembly:
last held 12 June 1988 (next to be held by NA
September 1992); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (1 total)
MRG 1


Executive branch: French president, chief administrator; note - there are three traditional kings with limited powers

Legislative branch:
unicameral Territorial Assembly (Assemblee
Territoriale)


Judicial branch: none; justice generally administered under French law by the chief administrator, but the three traditional kings administer customary law and there is a magistrate in Mata Utu

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation: FZ, SPC
Diplomatic representation: as an overseas territory of France, local interests are represented in the US by France

Diplomatic representation

Flag descriptionflag of Wallis%20and%20Futuna: the flag of France is used

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Wallis and Futuna - Economy 1992
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Economy overview:
The economy is limited to traditional subsistence agriculture, with about 80% of the labor force earning its livelihood from agriculture (coconuts and vegetables), livestock (mostly pigs), and fishing. About 4% of the population is employed in government. Revenues come from French
Government subsidies, licensing of fishing rights to Japan and South Korea, import taxes, and remittances from expatriate workers in New Caledonia.
Wallis and Futuna imports food, fuel, clothing, machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports are negligible, consisting of copra and handicrafts.

GDP: exchange rate conversion - $25 million, per capita $1,500; real growth rate NA% (1991 est.)

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: dominated by coconut production, with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas, and herds of pigs and goats

Industries: copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate NA%

Labor force: NA
Organized labor: NA
Labor force

Unemployment rate: NA%

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues $2.7 million; expenditures $2.7 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1983)

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: NA

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: negligible
Commodoties: copra, handicrafts
Partners: NA

Imports: $13.3 million (c.i.f., 1984)
Commodoties: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, transportation equipment, fuel
Partners: France, Australia, New Zealand

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per US$1 - 102.53 (March 1992), 102.57 (1991), 99.0 (1990), 115.99 (1989), 108.30 (1988), 109.27 (1987; note - linked at the rate of 18.18 to the French franc


Wallis and Futuna - Energy 1992
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Electricity
Production: 1,200 kW capacity; 1 million kWh produced, 70 kWh per capita (1990)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Wallis and Futuna - Communication 1992
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Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Wallis and Futuna - Military 1992
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Military expenditures

Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Wallis and Futuna - Transportation 1992
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National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports:
2 total; 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 2,439 m; 2
with runways 1,220-2,439 m


Heliports

Pipelines

Railways

Roadways

Waterways: none

Merchant marine

Ports and terminals


Wallis and Futuna - Transnational issues 1992
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Disputes international

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs


Qatar Airways


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