Environment - current issues	deforestation (only a small portion of the original forest remains because of burning and clearing for settlement)
Environment - international agreements	typhoons (especially November to March)

Pitcairn Islands: Land use / Resources

Land use (%)	arable land: NA% permanent crops: NA% other: NA
Natural resources	miro trees (used for handicrafts), fish

Pitcairn Islands: Economy

Economy - overview:	The inhabitants of this tiny isolated economy exist on fishing, subsistence farming, handicrafts, and postage stamps. The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans. Bartering is an important part of the economy. The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships. In October 2004, more than one-quarter of Pitcairn's labor force was arrested, putting the economy in a bind, since their services were required as lighter crew to load or unload passing ships.
GDP - per capita	NA
GDP - real growth rate (%)	NA
Agriculture - products	wide variety of fruits and vegetables, goats, chickens
GDP - composition by sector (%)	agriculture: NA%, industry: NA%, services: NA%
Industries	postage stamps, handicrafts, beekeeping, honey
Economic aid - recipient	$3.465 million (2004)
Debt - external	NA
Population below poverty line (%)	NA
Labor force - by occupation (%)	no business community in the usual sense; some public works; subsistence farming and fishing

Pitcairn Islands: Population / Demographics

Population (July 2005)	46
Population growth rate (%) (2005)	-0.01%
Population density (people/sq km) (2005)	1.0
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	NA
Ethnic groups (%)	descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian wives

[an error occurred while processing this directive]--> Pitcairn Islands: Infrastructure

Telephones - main lines in use	1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line); (2004)
Telephones - mobile cellular	total: 6.4 km paved: 0 km unpaved: 6.4 km
Roadways (km)

Pitcairn Islands: Health

Life expectancy at birth (years)	total population: NA male: NA female: NA
Infant mortality rate	NA
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate (%)	NA

Pitcairn Islands : References & Data Sources

Environment, Land use / Resources, Economy, Population / Demographics, Infrastructure, Health -- CIA World Factbook, 2005

Forest Cover, Forest types, Breakdown of forest types, Change in Forest Cover, Primary forests, Forest designation, Disturbances affecting forest land, Value of forests, Production, trade and consumption of forest products -- The FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS's Global Forest Resources Assessment (2005 & 2010) and the State of the World's Forests (2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2001)

Protected Areas, Plant and animal biodiversity -- United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). 2004. World Database on Protected Areas.

Biosphere reservers -- United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) - Man and Biosphere Program. 2004. UNESCO - MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory.

RAMSAR sites -- The Bureau of the Convention on Wetlands . 2005. The Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance.

World Resources Institute's EarthTrends web site

The 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Population Data -- United Nations Population Fund

With additional analysis by Rhett Butler of mongabay.com

Tropical rainforest information

World Rainforests

Rainforest Structure

Rainforest Biodiversity

Rainforest Conservation

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References

Deforestation Tables

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Deforestation in Brazil

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