commodities—motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, petroleum products, foodstuffs, chemicals;
partners—South Africa 92% (est.), Japan, Belgium, UK
_#_External debt: $290 million (1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA; accounts for 26% of GDP (1989)
_#_Electricity: 50,000 kW capacity; 130 million kWh produced, 170 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 23% of GDP and over 60% of labor force; mostly subsistence agriculture; cash crops—sugarcane, citrus fruit, cotton, pineapples; other crops and livestock—corn, sorghum, peanuts, cattle, goats, sheep; not self-sufficient in grain
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $142 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $488 million
_#_Currency: lilangeni (plural—emalangeni); 1 lilangeni (E) = 100 cents
_#_Exchange rates: emalangeni (E) per US$1—2.5625 (January 1991), 2.5863 (1990), 2.6166 (1989), 2.2611 (1988), 2.0350 (1987), 2.2685 (1986), 2.1911 (1985); note—the Swazi emalangeni is at par with the South African rand