Budget:
revenues: $10.5 billion
expenditures: $11.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.1
billion (FY93/94)
Exports: $6.7 billion (1993) commodities: cotton, textiles, clothing, rice, leather, carpets partners: US, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, UK, UAE, France
Imports: $9.5 billion (1993) commodities: petroleum, petroleum products, machinery, transportation equipment, vegetable oils, animal fats, chemicals partners: Japan, US, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea
External debt: $24 billion (1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 5.6% (FY93/94); accounts for 18% of
GDP
Electricity: capacity: 10,800,000 kW (1994) production: 52.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 389 kWh (1993)
Industries: textiles, food processing, beverages, construction materials, clothing, paper products, shrimp
Agriculture: 24% of GDP; world's largest contiguous irrigation system; major crops - cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; livestock products - milk, beef, mutton, eggs
Illicit drugs: major illicit producer of opium and hashish for the international drug trade; remains world's third largest opium producer (160 metric tons in 1994); major center for processing Afghan heroin and key transit area for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western market
Economic aid:
recipient: $2.5 billion (FY91/92); $2.5 billion (FY92/93); $2.5
billion (FY93/94); no US commitments, includes bi- and multilateral
aid