Budget:
revenues: $495 million
expenditures: $631 million, including capital expenditures of $118
million (1990 est.)
Exports: $462 million (f.o.b., 1994) commodities: coffee, cotton, tobacco, tea, cashew nuts, sisal partners: Germany, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Kenya, Hong Kong, US
Imports: $1.4 billion (c.i.f., 1994) commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transportation equipment, cotton piece goods, crude oil, foodstuffs partners: Germany, UK, US, Japan, Italy, Denmark
External debt: $6.7 billion (1993)
Industrial production: growth rate 9.3% (1990); accounts for 8% of GDP
Electricity: capacity: 440,000 kW production: 880 million kWh consumption per capita: 30 kWh (1993)
Industries: primarily agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refining, shoes, cement, textiles, wood products, fertilizer
Agriculture: accounts for about 58% of GDP; cash crops - coffee, sisal, tea, cotton, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums), cashews, tobacco, cloves (Zanzibar); food crops - corn, wheat, cassava, bananas, fruits, vegetables; small numbers of cattle, sheep, and goats; not self-sufficient in food grain production
Illicit drugs: growing role in transshipment of Southwest Asian heroin
destined for European and US markets
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $400 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $9.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $44 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $614 million