Imports: $20 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
food
partners: Japan 12%, UK 10%, US 9%, Germany 7%, South Korea 5% (1993)
External debt: $11.6 billion (1994 est.)
Industrial production: growth rate 1.7% (1992 est.); accounts for 50% of GDP, including petroleum
Electricity: capacity: 4,760,000 kW production: 16.5 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,796 kWh (1993)
Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling
Agriculture: accounts for 2% of GDP and 5% of labor force; cash crop - dates; food products - vegetables, watermelons, poultry, eggs, dairy, fish; only 25% self-sufficient in food
Illicit drugs: growing role as heroin transshipment and
money-laundering center
Economic aid:
donor: pledged in bilateral aid to less developed countries (1979-89)
$9.1 billion
Currency: 1 Emirian dirham (Dh) = 100 fils
Exchange rates: Emirian dirhams (Dh) per US$1 - 3.6710 (fixed rate)