_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 60% (FY90 est.)
_#_Unemployment rate: NA
_#_Budget: revenues $514 million; expenditures $1.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $183 million (FY89 est.)
_#_Exports: $465 million (f.o.b., FY90 est.);
commodities—cotton 52%, sesame, gum arabic, peanuts;
partners—Western Europe 46%, Saudi Arabia 14%, Eastern Europe 9%, Japan 9%, US 3% (FY88)
_#_Imports: $1.0 billion (c.i.f., FY90 est.);
commodities—petroleum products 28%, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals;
partners—Western Europe 32%, Africa and Asia 15%, US 13%, Eastern Europe 3% (FY88)
_#_External debt: $12.3 billion (December 1990 est.)