Economy
| Budget Expenditures
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$107.10 million (2010 est.)
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| Budget revenues
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$55.52 million (2010 )
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| Debt - external
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$10.00 million (1999 est.)
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| Electricity Consumption
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19.53 million kWh (2009 est.)
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| Electricity Exports
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0 kWh (2010 est.)
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| Electricity Imports
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0 kWh (2010 est.)
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| Electricity Production
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21 million kWh (2009 est.)
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| Exports
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$7.07 million (2010 est.)
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| GDP - purchasing power parity
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$599.00 million (2011 est.)
Note: data are in 2011 US dollars |
| GDP - real growth rate
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1.8% (2011 est.)
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| Imports
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$62.00 million (2010 est.)
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| Inflation rate (consumer prices)
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0.2% (2007 est.)
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| Labor force
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7.87 thousand (2001 est.)
Note: economically active, not including subsistence farmers (2001 est.) |
| Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2010 est.)
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| Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (2010 est.)
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| Natural Gas Imports
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0 cu m (2010 est.)
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| Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2010 est.)
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| Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2012 est.)
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| Oil Consumption
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300 bbl/day (2011 est.)
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| Oil Exports
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0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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| Oil Imports
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284.1 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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| Oil Production
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0 bbl/day (2010 est.)
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| Oil Proved Reserves
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0 bbl (2012 est.)
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| Unemployment rate
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2% (1992 est.)
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People
| Infant mortality rate
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37.68 deaths per 1,000 live births (2012 est.)
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| Population
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101,998 (2012 est.)
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| Population growth rate
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1.228% (2012 est.)
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| Total fertility rate
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2.71 children per woman (2012 est.)
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Ethnic Groups:
Micronesian 98.8%, other 1.2% (2000 census)
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Nationality:
noun: I-Kiribati (singular and plural) adjective: I-Kiribati
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Religions:
Roman Catholic 52%, Protestant (Congregational) 40%, other (includes Seventh-Day Adventist, Muslim, Baha'i, Latter-day Saints, Church of God) 8% (1999)
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Languages:
I-Kiribati, English (official)
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Geography
Location:
Oceania, group of 33 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, straddling the Equator; the capital Tarawa is about half way between Hawaii and Australia; note - on 1 January 1995, Kiribati proclaimed that all of its territory was in the same time zone as its Gilbert Islands group (UTC +12) even though the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands under its jurisdiction were on the other side of the International Date Line |
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Area
| Total: | 811 sq. km |
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| Land: | 811 sq. km |
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| Water: | 0 sq. km |
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Coastline:
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1,143 km |
Climate:
tropical; marine, hot and humid, moderated by trade winds
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Terrain:
mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive reefs
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Elevation Extremes
| Lowest Point: | Pacific Ocean 0 m |
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| Highest Point: | unnamed location on Banaba 81 m |
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Environment - International Agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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International Organization Participation:
ACP, ADB, C, FAO, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IOC, ITU, ITUC, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO
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