partners—US 50%
_#_External debt: $4.2 billion (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 2.3% (1989 est.); accounts for 18% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 1,445,000 kW capacity; 4,200 million kWh produced, 580 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 15% of GDP and employs 49% of labor force; sugarcane most important commercial crop, followed by coffee, cotton, cocoa, and tobacco; food crops—rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; animal output—cattle, hogs, dairy products, meat, eggs; not self-sufficient in food
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-89), $576.5 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $569 million
_#_Currency: Dominican peso (plural—pesos); 1 Dominican peso (RD$) = 100 centavos
_#_Exchange rates: Dominican pesos per US$1—11.850 (January 1991), 8.290 (1990), 6.3400 (1989), 6.1125 (1988), 3.8448 (1987), 2.9043 (1986), 3.1126 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year