_#_External debt: $16.8 billion (yearend 1990); 98.6% with USSR
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%
_#_Electricity: 657,000 kW capacity; 2,950 million kWh produced, 1,380 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: copper, processing of animal products, building materials, food and beverage, mining (particularly coal)
_#_Agriculture: accounts for about 20% of GDP and provides livelihood for about 50% of the population; livestock raising predominates (sheep, goats, horses); crops—wheat, barley, potatoes, forage
_#_Economic aid: about $300 million in trade credits and $34 million in grant aid from USSR and other CEMA countries, plus $7.4 million from UNDP (1990)
_#_Currency: tughrik (plural—tughriks); 1 tughrik (Tug) = 100 mongos
_#_Exchange rates: tughriks (Tug) per US$1—7.1 (1991), 5.63 (1990), 3.00 (1989)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*Communications #_Railroads: 1,750 km 1.524-meter broad gauge (1988)