Imports: $102.4 billion (c.i.f., 1994) commodities: aircraft, petroleum, chemicals, foodstuffs partners: Japan 22%, Malaysia 16%, US 15%, Taiwan 4%, Saudi Arabia 4% (1994)
External debt: $20 million (1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 13% (1994 est.); accounts for 28% of GDP (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 4,510,000 kW production: 17 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,590 kWh (1993)
Industries: petroleum refining, electronics, oil drilling equipment, rubber processing and rubber products, processed food and beverages, ship repair, entrepot trade, financial services, biotechnology
Agriculture: minor importance in the economy; self-sufficient in
poultry and eggs; must import much of other food; major crops -
rubber, copra, fruit, vegetables
Illicit drugs: transit point for Golden Triangle heroin going to the
US, Western Europe, and the Third World; also a major money-laundering
center
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-83), $590 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1 billion
Currency: 1 Singapore dollar (S$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Singapore dollars (S$) per US$1 - 1.4524 (January 1995), 1.5275 (1994), 1.6158 (1993), 1.6290 (1992), 1.7276 (1991), 1.8125 (1990)