commodities—fuels, minerals, and raw materials 45.2%; machinery and equipment 39.8%; manufactured consumer goods 4.6%; agricultural products 3.8%; other 6.6%;
partners—Communist countries 80.5% (USSR 57.5%, GDR 5.7%), developed countries 15.1% (FRG 4.8%, Austria 1.6%); less developed countries 4.4% (Libya 1.0%, Brazil 0.9%)
_#_External debt: $10 billion (1990)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 10.7% (1990); accounts for about 50% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 11,500,000 kW capacity; 45,000 million kWh produced, 5,040 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: machine and metal building,food processing, chemicals, textiles, building materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GNP; climate and soil conditions support livestock raising and the growing of various grain crops, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits and tobacco; more than one-third of the arable land devoted to grain; world's fourth-largest tobacco exporter; surplus food producer
_#_Economic aid: donor—$1.6 billion in bilateral aid to non-Communist less developed countries (1956-89)
_#_Currency: lev (plural—leva); 1 lev (Lv) = 100 stotinki
_#_Exchange rates: leva (Lv) per US$1—16.13 (March 1991), 0.7446 (November 1990), 0.84 (1989), 0.82 (1988), 0.90 (1987), 0.95 (1986), 1.03 (1985); note—floating exchange rate since February 1990