28, May 2012, CEST. Welcome to the Spratly Islands economic statistics pages provided by the beta version of EconomyWatch.com's Econ Stats database.
Economic Indicators For: Spratly Islands › Change country
National or Regional Currency: ,
Year of data: 2010 › Change year
Number of Indicators Listed:
Full Dataset: From Year 1980 to 2016
Date of Last Update: 1st August 2011
Population: no indigenous inhabitants
note: there are scattered garrisons occupied by military personnel of several claimant states
Area: total: less than 5 sq km
land: less than 5 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over an area of nearly 410,000 sq km of the central South China Sea
Natural Resources: fish, guano, undetermined oil and natural gas potential
Data Sources: IMF, World Bank, UN, OECD, CIA World Factbook, Internet World Statistics, The Heritage Foundation and Transparency International
Economic activity is limited to commercial fishing. The proximity to nearby oil- and gas-producing sedimentary basins suggests the potential for oil and gas deposits, but the region is largely unexplored. There are no reliable estimates of potential reserves. Commercial exploitation has yet to be developed.