Budget:
revenues: $4.3 billion
expenditures: $5.5 billion, including capital expenditures to $NA
(1993 est.)
Exports: $4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates and
chemicals
partners: EC countries 75%, Middle East 10%, Algeria 2%, India 2%, US
1%
Imports: $6.5 billion (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: industrial goods and equipment 57%, hydrocarbons 13%,
food 12%, consumer goods
partners: EC countries 70%, US 5%, Middle East 2%, Japan 2%,
Switzerland 1%, Algeria 1%
External debt: $7.7 billion (1993 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989); accounts for 22% of GDP, including petroleum
Electricity: capacity: 1,410,000 kW production: 5.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 595 kWh (1993)
Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages
Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and one-third of labor force; output subject to severe fluctuations because of frequent droughts; export crops - olives, dates, oranges, almonds; other products - grain, sugar beets, wine grapes, poultry, beef, dairy; not self-sufficient in food
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $730 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89) $52 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $684 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $410 million
Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 millimes