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Central and Eastern Europe Composed of 14 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Commonwealth of Independent States Composed of 11 CIS countries: Armenia, ...
USD 0.6 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF), data retrieved October 2019
USD 1.4 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 1.4 billion (2018, estimate)
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| 6.4% | 7.1% | -4.7% | 6.8% | 13.2% | 4.6% | 3% |
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* | 2019* | ||
| 2.3% | 2.5% | 3.5% | 3.5% | 3.4% |
*Estimate
| 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2019* |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.001% |
*Estimate
(2017 estimate)
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
| -0.6% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 0.4% |
*Estimate
| 2018 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| 10.1% | 7.9% | 9.5% | 9.4% | 10.9% |
*Estimate
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
| 0% | -3.9% | -4.4% | 0.7% | -2.3% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: B3
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
-5.2 % (2018 estimate)
N/A
0.003% (2018)
0.003% (2018)
Timber, fish, copra, palm oil, cocoa, coconut oil
Food, plant and equipment, manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals
China 64.5%, Italy 6.2%, Switzerland 4.6%, Philippines 4.4% (2017)
China 21.9%, Australia 19.6%, Singapore 10.7%, Vietnam 7.5%, NZ 6.2%, Papua New Guinea 5%, South Korea 4.7% (2017)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 39 million | USD 43 million | USD 12 million |
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| USD 1.3 million | USD 7.1 million | USD 9.0 million |
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A
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N/A
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Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
136 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 110 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 172 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 112 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 155 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 104 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 136 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 41 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 160 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 157 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 145 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 133 / Score: 54.6 (Mostly unfree)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Melanesian pidgin (in much of the country is lingua franca), English (official but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population), 120 indigenous languages
Protestant 73.4% (Church of Melanesia 31.9%, South Sea Evangelical 17.1%, Seventh Day Adventist 11.7%, United Church 10.1%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.5%), Roman Catholic 19.6%, other Christian 2.9%, other 4%, none 0.03%, unspecified 0.1% (2009 est.)
| 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
| 0.31 million | 0.41 million | 0.53 million | 0.59 million | 0.66 million |
*Estimate
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
| 5.8% | 10.6% | 15.8% | 23.7% |
Total population: 84.1%
Male: 88.9%
Female: 79.2%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2009 est.)
58.8% (last available estimate, 2013)
37.1 (last available estimate, 2013)
Free
Political Rights: 2
Civil Liberties: 2 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 1.1%
Mobile: 73.8%
(2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)