WALLIS AND FUTUNA                                                               
(overseas territory of France)                                                  
GEOGRAPHY                                                                       
Total area: 274 km2; land area: 274 km2; includes Ile Uvea                      
(Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20                  
islets                                                                          
                                                                                
Comparative area: slightly larger than Washington, DC                           
                                                                                
Land boundaries: none                                                           
                                                                                
Coastline: 129 km                                                               
                                                                                
Maritime claims:                                                                
                                                                                
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;                                                
                                                                                
Territorial sea: 12 nm                                                          
                                                                                
Climate: tropical; hot, rainy season (November to April); cool,                 
dry season (May to October)                                                     
                                                                                
Terrain: volcanic origin; low hills                                             
                                                                                
Natural resources: negligible                                                   
                                                                                
Land use: arable land 5%; permanent crops 20%; meadows and pastures             
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 75%                                           
                                                                                
Environment: both island groups have fringing reefs                             
                                                                                
Note: located 4,600 km southwest of Honolulu in the South Pacific               
Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand                    
                                                                                
PEOPLE                                                                          
Population: 16,590 (July 1991), growth rate 3.0% (1991)                         
                                                                                
Birth rate: 28 births/1,000 population (1991)                                   
                                                                                
Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1991)                                    
                                                                                
Net migration rate: 8 migrants/1,000 population (1991)                          
                                                                                
Infant mortality rate: 30 deaths/1,000 population (1991)                        
                                                                                
Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 71 years female (1991)                 
                                                                                
Total fertility rate: 3.7 children born/woman (1991)                            
                                                                                
Nationality: noun--Wallisian(s), Futunan(s), or Wallis and Futuna               
Islanders; adjective--Wallisian, Futunan, or Wallis and Futuna Islander         
                                                                                
Ethnic divisions: almost entirely Polynesian                                    
                                                                                
Religion: largely Roman Catholic                                                
                                                                                
Language: French, Wallisian (indigenous Polynesian language)                    
                                                                                
Literacy: 50% (male 50%, female 51%) at all ages can read and write             
(1969)                                                                          
                                                                                
Labor force: NA                                                                 
                                                                                
Organized labor: NA                                                             
                                                                                
GOVERNMENT                                                                      
Long-form name: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands                      
                                                                                
Type: overseas territory of France                                              
                                                                                
Capital: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea)                                                 
                                                                                
Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of France)                   
                                                                                
Independence: none (overseas territory of France)                               
                                                                                
Constitution: 28 September 1958 (French Constitution)                           
                                                                                
Legal system: French                                                            
                                                                                
National holiday: Taking of the Bastille, 14 July (1789)                        
                                                                                
Executive branch: French president, high administrator; note--there             
are three traditional kings with limited powers                                 
                                                                                
Legislative branch: unicameral Territorial Assembly                             
(Assemblee Territoriale)                                                        
                                                                                
Judicial branch: none; justice generally administered under French              
law by the chief administrator, but the three traditional kings                 
administer customary law and there is a magistrate in Mata-Utu                  
                                                                                
Leaders:                                                                        
                                                                                
Chief of State--President Francois MITTERRAND                                   
(since 21 May 1981);                                                            
                                                                                
Head of Government--Chief Administrator Roger DUMEC                             
(since 15 July 1988)                                                            
                                                                                
Political parties and leaders:                                                  
Rally for the Republic (RPR);                                                   
Union Populaire Locale (UPL);                                                   
Union Pour la Democratie Francaise (UDF);                                       
Lua kae tahi (Giscardians);                                                     
Mouvement des Radicaux de Gauche (MRG)                                          
                                                                                
Suffrage: universal adult at age 18                                             
                                                                                
Elections:                                                                      
                                                                                
Territorial Assembly--last held 15 March 1987                                   
(next to be held March 1992);                                                   
results--percent of vote by party NA;                                           
seats--(20 total) RPR 7, UPL 6, UDF and Lua kae tahi 7;                         
                                                                                
French Senate--last held NA September 1989                                      
(next to be held by September 1992);                                            
results--percent of vote by party NA;                                           
seats--(1 total) RPR 1;                                                         
                                                                                
French National Assembly--last held 12 June 1988 (next to be held               
by September 1992);                                                             
results--percent of vote by party NA;                                           
seats--(1 total) MRG 1                                                          
                                                                                
Member of: FZ, SPC                                                              
                                                                                
Diplomatic representation: as an overseas territory of France,                  
local interests are represented in the US by France                             
                                                                                
Flag: the flag of France is used                                                
                                                                                
ECONOMY                                                                         
Overview: The economy is limited to traditional subsistence                     
agriculture, with about 80% of the labor force earning its livelihood           
from agriculture (coconuts and vegetables), livestock (mostly pigs),            
and fishing. About 4% of the population is employed in government.              
Revenues come from French Government subsidies, licensing of fishing            
rights to Japan and South Korea, import taxes, and remittances from             
expatriate workers in New Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna imports food,            
fuel, clothing, machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports             
are negligible, consisting of copra and handicrafts.                            
                                                                                
GDP: $7.5 million, per capita $470; real growth rate NA%                        
(1990 est.)                                                                     
                                                                                
Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%                                           
                                                                                
Unemployment rate: NA%                                                          
                                                                                
Budget: revenues $2.7 million; expenditures $2.7 million,                       
including capital expenditures of $NA (1983)                                    
                                                                                
Exports: negligible;                                                            
                                                                                
commodities--copra, handicrafts;                                                
                                                                                
partners--NA                                                                    
                                                                                
Imports: $6.9 million (c.i.f., 1983);                                           
                                                                                
commodities--foodstuffs, manufactured goods, transportation                     
equipment, fuel;                                                                
                                                                                
partners--France, Australia, New Zealand                                        
                                                                                
External debt: $NA                                                              
                                                                                
Industrial production: growth rate NA%                                          
                                                                                
Electricity: 1,200 kW capacity; 1 million kWh produced,                         
70 kWh per capita (1990)                                                        
                                                                                
Industries: copra, handicrafts, fishing, lumber                                 
                                                                                
Agriculture: dominated by coconut production, with subsistence                  
crops of yams, taro, bananas, and herds of pigs and goats                       
                                                                                
Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral                 
commitments (1970-88), $118 million                                             
                                                                                
Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (plural--francs);               
1 CFP franc (CFPF) = 100 centimes                                               
                                                                                
Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per               
US$1--93.28 (January 1991), 99.0 (1990), 115.99 (1989), 108.30 (1988),          
109.27 (1987), 125.92 (1986), 163.35 (1985); note--linked at the rate of        
18.18 to the French franc                                                       
                                                                                
Fiscal year: NA                                                                 
                                                                                
COMMUNICATIONS                                                                  
Highways: 100 km on Ile Uvea, 16 km sealed; 20 km earth surface                 
on Ile Futuna                                                                   
                                                                                
Inland waterways: none                                                          
                                                                                
Ports: Mata-Utu, Leava                                                          
                                                                                
Airports: 2 total; 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;                  
none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m                    
                                                                                
Telecommunications: 225 telephones; stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV                
                                                                                
DEFENSE FORCES                                                                  
Note: defense is the responsibility of France                                   
                                                                                
