Unemployment rate: 30% (FY92/93 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $493 million
expenditures: $1.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $225
million (1994 est.)
Exports: $419 million (f.o.b., FY93/94)
commodities: gum arabic 29%, livestock/meat 24%, cotton 13%, sesame,
peanuts
partners: Western Europe 46%, Saudi Arabia 14%, Eastern Europe 9%,
Japan 9%, US 3% (FY87/88)
Imports: $1.7 billion (c.i.f., FY93/94)
commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum products, manufactured goods,
machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles
partners: Western Europe 32%, Africa and Asia 15%, US 13%, Eastern
Europe 3% (FY87/88)
External debt: $17 billion (June 1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 6.8% (FY92/93 est.); accounts for 11% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 500,000 kW production: 1.3 billion kWh consumption per capita: 42 kWh (1993)
Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining
Agriculture: accounts for 35% of GDP; major products - cotton, oilseeds, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sheep; marginally self-sufficient in most foods
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.5 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $5.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $3.1 billion;
Communist countries (1970-89), $588 million