Economy - overview:
The main economic activities on Christmas Island are the mining of low grade phosphate, limited tourism, the provision of government services and more recently the construction and operation of the Immigration Detention Center. The government sector includes administration, health, education, policing, customs, quarantine and defense.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$NA
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Industries:
tourism, phosphate extraction (near depletion)
Labor force:
NA
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Budget:
revenues: $NA
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expenditures:
$NA
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Exports:
$NA
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Exports - commodities:
phosphate
Imports:
$NA
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Imports - commodities:
consumer goods
Exchange rates:
Australian dollars (AUD) per US dollar -
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Christmas Island on this page is re-published from the 2014 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Christmas Island Economy 2014 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Christmas Island Economy 2014 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order
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