Budget:
revenues: $39 billion
expenditures: $50 billion, including capital expenditures of $7.5
billion (1993 est.)
Exports: $39.4 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: petroleum and petroleum products 92%
partners: US 20%, Japan 18%, Singapore 5%, France 5%, South Korea 5%
(1992)
Imports: $28.9 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, motor
vehicles, textiles
partners: US 21%, Japan 14%, UK 11%, Germany 8%, Italy 6%, France 5%
(1992)
External debt: $18.9 billion (December 1989 est., includes short-term
trade credits)
Industrial production: growth rate 20% (1991 est.); accounts for 35%
of GDP, including petroleum
Electricity: capacity: 17,550,000 kW production: 46 billion kWh consumption per capita: 2,430 kWh (1993)
Industries: crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic petrochemicals, cement, two small steel-rolling mills, construction, fertilizer, plastics
Agriculture: accounts for about 10% of GDP, 16% of labor force; subsidized by government; products - wheat, barley, tomatoes, melons, dates, citrus fruit, mutton, chickens, eggs, milk; approaching self-sufficiency in food
Illicit drugs: death penalty for traffickers; increasing consumption
of heroin and cocaine
Economic aid:
donor: pledged bilateral aid (1979-89), $64.7 billion; pledged $100
million in 1993 to fund reconstruction of Lebanon