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In the same year the Nauru government budget shows that income from licensing foreign fishing vessels was over US$3,000,000. Nauru needs to import almost all basic and capital goods, including food, water, fuel, and manufactured goods, with Australia and New Zealand as its major import sources. In 2004 Nauru's imports totaled about US$19.8 million.
Nauru: Micronesia: High income 32.4 2012 32.36 2013 New Zealand: Australia and New Zealand: High income 32.00 2020 Oman: Western Asia: High income 30.09 2019 Pakistan: Southern Asia: Lower middle income 29.6 2018 29.59 2019 Panama: Central America: High income 48.9 2023 49.60 2022 Peru: South America: Upper middle income 40.3 2022 40.25
Nauru is a phosphate-rock island with rich deposits near the surface, which allowed easy strip mining operations for over a century. However, this has seriously harmed the country's environment, causing the island nation to suffer from what is often referred to as the " resource curse ".
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The government puts profits from the mining into a trust for the islanders. This trust reached a peak of A$1 billion, returning approximately 14% annually. Poor investments and corruption have left the trust fund nearly empty and therefore Nauru with little money. In the year 1948, revenues from phosphate mining were A$745,000.
Roughly 80% of Nauru has been decimated by strip mining. The effects of phosphate mining in Nauru have had significant negative impacts on the island's environment and economy. [1] One of the most prominent effects of the phosphate mining in Nauru is the extensive environmental degradation that has occurred as a result of the extraction of ...
The Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (NPRT) was a sovereign wealth fund developed by the government of the Republic of Nauru in which the government invested money from the state-owned mining company, Nauru Phosphate Corporation.