
Trade Finance In Wartime
The huge drop-off in trade involving Russia and Ukraine has hit trade finance hard.
Browse additional economic indicators and data sets, selected by Global Finance editors, to learn more about Vanuatu economic outlook, debt to GDP ratio, international trade performance and population trends.
Taxes paid by corporations can be measured in a number of ways, including the marginal corporate tax rate and the total taxes paid as a percentage of profits.
USD 0.42 billion (2018)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
USD 0.9 billion (2018, estimate)
Intl$ 0.8 billion (2018, estimate)
2014 | 2015* | 2016* | 2017* | 2018* |
2.3% | 0.2% | 3.5% | 4.4%* | 3.2%* |
*Estimate
(2016 estimate)
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
2.5% | 0.8% | 3.1% | 2.9% | 2.0% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
34.7% | 45.2% | 52.1% | 51.4% | 49.2% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
-7.3% | -3.9% | -0.9% | 4.8% | -0.6% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: N/A
Standard & Poor's / Moody's (Updated January 2017)
-3.4% (2018 estimate)
48.6% (2014)
0.0004% (2018)
0.01% (2017)
Copra, beef (veal), cocoa, timber, kava, coffee, coconut oil, shell, cowhides, coconut meal, fish
Machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, fuels
Philippines 23.9%, Australia 16.5%, US 10.4%, Japan 8.8%, Venezuela 8%, France 4.8%, Fiji 4.5%, Hong Kong 4.4% (2017)
Russia 35.2%, Australia 19.8%, NZ 9.8%, China 6.3%, Fiji 5.5% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 22 million | USD 24 million | USD 38 million |
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 0.9 million | USD 1.1 million | USD 1.2 million |
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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: 107 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 137 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 163 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 101 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 84 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 37 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 147 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 67 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 148 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 138 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 101 out of 190 countries
Ranking: 116 / Score: 56.4 (Moderately free) (2019)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Local languages (more than 100) 63.2%, Bislama (official; creole) 33.7%, English (official) 2%, French (official) 0.6%, other 0.5% (2009 est.)
Protestant 70% (includes Presbyterian 27.9%, Anglican 15.1%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.5%, Assemblies of God 4.7%, Church of Christ 4.5%, Neil Thomas Ministry 3.1%, and Apostolic 2.2%), Roman Catholic 12.4%, customary beliefs 3.7% (including Jon Frum cargo cult), other 12.6%, none 1.1%, unspecified 0.2% (2009 est.)
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020* |
0.15 million | 0.19 million | 0.24 million | 0.27 million | 0.3 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
10.4% | 14.7% | 21.7% | 25.3% |
Total population: 85.2%
Male: 86.6%
Female: 83.8% (2015 est.)
(age 15 and over can read and write)
39.2% (2010 estimate)
Political Rights: 2
Civil Liberties: 2 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed 1.6% Mobile 79.9% (2017)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)