Tuvalu 
Facts
Population: 11,992 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 29.8% (male 1,821/female 1,752)
15-64 years: 65.2% (male 3,808/female 4,006)
65 years and over: 5% (male 227/female 378) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.543% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 22.43 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.039 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.951 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.601 male(s)/female
total population: 0.954 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 18.9 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 21.64 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 16.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 68.63 years
male: 66.38 years
female: 70.99 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.96 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA.
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA.
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA.
Nationality: noun: Tuvaluan(s)
adjective: Tuvaluan.
Ethnic groups: Polynesian 96%, Micronesian 4%.
Religions: Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, Baha'i 1%, other 0.6%.
Languages: Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, Kiribati (on the island of Nui).
Literacy: NA.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $14.94 million (2002 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 1.2% (2002 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,600 (2002 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 16.6%
industry: 27.2%
services: 56.2% (2002).
Labor force: 3,615 (2004 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: note: people make a living mainly through exploitation of the sea, reefs, and atolls and from wages sent home by those abroad (mostly workers in the phosphate industry and sailors).
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%.
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.9% (2005 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $22.78 million
expenditures: $14.23 million; including capital expenditures of $4.2 million (2002 est.).
Agriculture - products: coconuts; fish.
Industries: fishing, tourism, copra.
Industrial production growth rate: NA%.
Exports: $1 million f.o.b. (2004 est.).
Exports - commodities: copra, fish.
Exports - partners: Germany 60.5%, Italy 20.1%, Fiji 6.9% (2005).
Imports: $9.186 million c.i.f. (2004 est.).
Imports - commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured goods.
Imports - partners: Fiji 46.1%, Japan 18.9%, China 18.2%, Australia 7.7%, NZ 4.1% (2005).
Debt - external: $NA.
Economic aid - recipient: $13 million; note - major donors are Australia, Japan, and the US (1999 est.).
Currency (code): Australian dollar (AUD); note - there is also a Tuvaluan dollar.
Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars or Australian dollars per US dollar - 1.3285 (2006), 1.3095 (2005), 1.3598 (2004), 1.5419 (2003), 1.8406 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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