commodities—machinery and equipment 37%; fuels, minerals, and metals 31%; manufactured consumer goods 17%; agricultural and forestry products 5% (1989);
partners—USSR 18%, FRG 16%, Austria 6%, Czechoslovakia 6% (1989)
_#_External debt: $48.5 billion (January 1991)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 23% (State sector 1990 est.)
_#_Electricity: 31,530,000 kW capacity; 136,300 million kWh produced, 3,610 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: machine building, iron and steel, extractive industries, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GNP and 27% of labor force; 75% of output from private farms, 25% from state farms; productivity remains low by European standards; leading European producer of rye, rapeseed, and potatoes; wide variety of other crops and livestock; major exporter of pork products; normally self-sufficient in food
_#_Economic aid: donor—bilateral aid to non-Communist less developed countries, $2.2 billion (1954-89)
_#_Currency: zloty (plural—zlotych); 1 zloty (Zl) = 100 groszy
_#_Exchange rates: zlotych (Zl) per US$1—11,100.00 (May 1991), 9,500 (1990), 1,439.18 (1989), 430.55 (1988), 265.08 (1987), 175.29 (1986), 147.14 (1985)