partners—EC, Eastern Europe, US, Japan
_#_Imports: $11.4 billion (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities—machinery and equipment, foods, fertilizers, wood products, durable consumer goods, capital goods;
partners—EC, US, Japan, Eastern Europe
_#_External debt: $52 billion (December 1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 2-4% (1989 est.); accounts for 24% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 11,273,000 kW capacity; 42,500 million kWh produced, 780 kWh per capita (1989)
_#_Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals, petroleum, construction, cement, metals
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 20% of GNP and employs more than one-third of labor force; dependent on irrigation water from the Nile; world's sixth-largest cotton exporter; other crops produced include rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruit, vegetables; not self-sufficient in food; livestock—cattle, water buffalo, sheep, and goats; annual fish catch about 140,000 metric tons
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $15.7 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $9.3 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $2.4 billion