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New Caledonia
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ANNUAL ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
Population & economic scale
The most recent non-empty observations returned by the World Bank when this snapshot was collected. Read the year on each card: these are annual statistics, not live measurements.
World Bank reporting entity: New Caledonia · 3 of 3 indicators available.
Population
295,333
people
observation
Definition, value & source
Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.
Received value: 295333 people. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division
GDP
$8.55 billion
current US$
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 8548919387.12607 current US$. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP per capita
$29,213
current US$ per person
observation
Definition, value & source
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
Received value: 29213.1923192946 current US$ per person. The main card rounds for readability.
- Collected
- Oct 7, 2026
- Dataset update reported by API
- Jul 13, 2026; separate from the observation year
World Bank indicator ↗ · API record ↗
World Bank, World Development Indicators. CC BY 4.0. Underlying sources: Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks; National Accounts data files, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB)
GDP and GDP per capita use current US dollars, without an inflation or purchasing-power-parity adjustment. Source years can differ. Missing data is not zero; earlier archive figures below are retained as a separate historical reference.
THE REFERENCE FILE
New Caledonia at a glance
These are historical reference facts from the 2025 World Factbook archive. Each estimate keeps its own period; an archive edition does not make every figure a measurement from that year.
Government type
parliamentary democracy (Territorial Congress); an overseas collectivity of France
Population
total: 307,612 (2025 est.) male: 153,036 female: 154,576
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$8.469 billion (2024 est.) $8.642 billion (2023 est.) $8.678 billion (2022 est.) note: data in 2015 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate)
$10.129 billion (2024 est.) note: data in current dollars at official exchange rate
Real GDP growth rate
3.5% (2022 est.) -2.1% (2021 est.) -2.4% (2020 est.) note: annual GDP % growth based on constant local currency
Real GDP per capita
$34,600 (2024 est.) $35,000 (2023 est.) $33,500 (2022 est.) note: data in 2015 dollars
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
3.7% (2022 est.) 0.6% (2021 est.) -0.5% (2020 est.) note: annual % change based on consumer prices
Unemployment rate
11.2% (2024 est.) 11% (2023 est.) 10.8% (2022 est.) note: % of labor force seeking employment
Labor force
130,800 (2024 est.) note: number of people ages 15 or older who are employed or seeking work
Budget
revenues: $1.995 billion (2015 est.) expenditures: $1.993 billion (2015 est.)
Current account balance
-$654.237 million (2016 est.) -$1.119 billion (2015 est.) -$1.3 billion (2014 est.) note: balance of payments - net trade and primary/secondary income in current dollars
Exports
$1.92 billion (2021 est.) $1.8 billion (2020 est.) $1.79 billion (2019 est.) note: balance of payments - exports of goods and services in current dollars
Imports
$2.26 billion (2021 est.) $2.1 billion (2020 est.) $2.48 billion (2019 est.) note: balance of payments - imports of goods and services in current dollars
Electricity access
electrification - total population: 100% (2022 est.)
Internet users
percent of population: 82% (2017 est.)
THE HISTORICAL REFERENCE LIBRARY
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Location
Oceania, islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Australia
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Capital
name: Noumea geographic coordinates: 22 16 S, 166 27 E time difference: UTC+11 (16 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time) etymology: established in 1854 as Port-de-France, the settlement was renamed Noumea in 1866 to avoid confusion with Fort-de-France in Martinique; the name Noumea may come from the local name of the peninsula the city was founded on
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Economic overview
upper-middle-income French Pacific territorial economy; enormous nickel reserves; ongoing French independence negotiations; large Chinese nickel exporter; luxury eco-tourism destination; large French aid recipient; high cost-of-living; lingering wealth disparities
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural resources
nickel, chrome, iron, cobalt, manganese, silver, gold, lead, copper
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Agricultural products
coconuts, vegetables, fruits, pork, beef, maize, eggs, bananas, yams, oranges (2023) note: top ten agricultural products based on tonnage
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Industries
nickel mining and smelting
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - partners
China 75%, Japan 9%, Taiwan 3%, India 3%, France 2% (2023) note: top five export partners based on percentage share of exports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Exports - commodities
iron alloys, nickel, nickel ore, processed crustaceans, shellfish (2023) note: top five export commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - partners
France 36%, Singapore 16%, Australia 15%, China 6%, NZ 3% (2023) note: top five import partners based on percentage share of imports
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Imports - commodities
refined petroleum, coal, cars, aircraft, packaged medicine (2023) note: top five import commodities based on value in dollars
2023 source periods; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Climate
tropical; modified by southeast trade winds; hot, humid
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Terrain
coastal plains with interior mountains
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Land use
agricultural land: 10.1% (2023 est.) arable land: 0.3% (2023 est.) permanent crops: 0.2% (2023 est.) permanent pasture: 9.5% (2023 est.) forest: 48.8% (2023 est.) other: 41.1% (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Natural hazards
cyclones, most frequent from November to March volcanism: Matthew and Hunter Islands are historically active
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Languages
French (official), 33 Melanesian-Polynesian dialects major-language sample(s): The World Factbook, une source indispensable d'informations de base. (French) The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information.
archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Religions
Christian 85.2%, Muslim 2.8%, other 1.6%, unaffiliated 10.4% (2020 est.)
2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Age structure
0-14 years: 20.7% (male 32,238/female 30,858) 15-64 years: 68.4% (male 104,825/female 103,349) 65 years and over: 10.8% (2024 est.) (male 14,326/female 18,571)
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Urbanization
urban population: 72.7% of total population (2023) rate of urbanization: 1.72% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
2023, 2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 79.3 years (2024 est.) male: 75.4 years female: 83.3 years
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity
installed generating capacity: 1.174 million kW (2023 est.) consumption: 3.02 billion kWh (2023 est.) transmission/distribution losses: 66.3 million kWh (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Electricity generation sources
fossil fuels: 73.8% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) solar: 7.3% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) wind: 1.4% of total installed capacity (2023 est.) hydroelectricity: 17.5% of total installed capacity (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Petroleum
refined petroleum consumption: 17,000 bbl/day (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Carbon dioxide emissions
4.887 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from coal and metallurgical coke: 2.312 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.) from petroleum and other liquids: 2.575 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2023 est.)
2023 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Telephones - mobile cellular
total subscriptions: 263,000 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 92 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Broadband - fixed subscriptions
total: 56,000 (2022 est.) subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 19 (2022 est.)
2022 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Airports
21 (2025)
2025 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Ports
total ports: 3 (2024) large: 0 medium: 0 small: 1 very small: 2 ports with oil terminals: 1 key ports: Baie de Kouaoua, Baie Ugue, Noumea
2024 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
GDP - composition, by sector of origin
agriculture: 1.8% (2019 est.) industry: 22.3% (2019 est.) services: 65.2% (2019 est.) note: figures may not total 100% due to non-allocated consumption not captured in sector-reported data
2019 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
Remittances
6.5% of GDP (2022 est.) 6.2% of GDP (2021 est.) 6.6% of GDP (2020 est.) note: personal transfers and compensation between resident and non-resident individuals/households/entities
2022, 2021, 2020 dates in source text; archive edition 2025 · Archive source ↗
CURRENCY OBSERVATIONS
Money & exchange rates
The latest verified daily references are separate from the historical country profile. Values are currency units per US$1.
CFP Franc
XPF per US$1
Published reference snapshot; its original observation date is preserved.
1 XPF = US$0.009438414
102.5–106.61 XPF per US$1 across the displayed observations. The vertical scale follows this range.
View dated observations
| Observation date | XPF per US$1 |
|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2026 | 105.95 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 106.61 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 106.27 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 105.77 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 105.07 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | 105.17 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 105 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 104.89 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 105.29 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 104.54 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 104.12 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 103.95 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 104.26 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 104.21 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 103.42 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 103.54 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 103.48 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 102.98 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 102.64 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 102.5 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 102.7 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 102.57 |
Daily references are not live execution prices. A check time does not change a source observation date.
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- CIA World Factbook · 2025 archive
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- Oct 6, 2026 · retrieval date, not an observation period
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