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Tuvaluan (official), English (official), Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui)
FUNAFUTI (capital) 6,000 (2014)
- Conventional long form
- none
- Conventional short form
- Tuvalu
- Local long form
- none
- Local short form
- Tuvalu
parliamentary democracy (House of Assembly) under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
- Name
- Funafuti
- Geographic coordinates
- 8 31 S, 179 13 E
- Time difference
- UTC+12 (17 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
has not submitted an ICJ jurisdiction declaration; non-party state to the ICCt
Tuvalu consists of a densely populated, scattered group of nine coral atolls with poor soil. Only eight of the atolls are inhabited. It is one of the smallest countries in the world, with its highest point at 4.6 meters above sea level. The country is isolated, almost entirely dependent on imports, particularly of food and fuel, and vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels, which pose significant challenges to development.
- Inflation
- None%
- Total tax rate (% of commercial profits)
- None%
- Real Interest Rate
- None%
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- 1.15%
- Current Account Balance
- US$ 6,808,265
- Labor Force, Total
- Employment in Agriculture
- %
- Employment in Industry
- %
- Employment in Services
- %
- Unemployment Rate
- 6.50%
- Imports of goods and services
- US$
- Exports of goods and services
- US$
- Total Merchandise Trade
- 82.53%
- FDI, net inflows
- US$ 601,011
- Commercial Service Exports
- US$ 3,254,374
coconuts; fish
fishing
- Commodities
- copra, fish
- Partners
- Commodities
- food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured goods
- Partners