_#_Unemployment: 8-10% (1989)

_#_Budget: revenues $1.2 billion; expenditures $1.32 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1989)

_#_Exports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities—petroleum 80%, aluminum 7%, other 13%;

partners—UAE, Japan, US, India

_#_Imports: $3.0 billion (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities—nonoil 59%, crude oil 41%;

partners—Saudi Arabia, Japan, US, UK

_#_External debt: $1.1 billion (December 1989 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 3.8% (1988); accounts for 44% of GDP