Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9% (1995 est.)
Labor force: 650,000
by occupation: services 60%, industry 28%, agriculture 12% (1990
est.)
Unemployment rate: 30% (1995 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.4 billion
expenditures: $3.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1994 est.)
Industries: banking, food processing, textiles, cement, oil
refining, chemicals, jewelry, some metal fabricating
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity: capacity: 1,220,000 kW production: 2.5 billion kWh consumption per capita: 676 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: citrus, vegetables, potatoes, olives, tobacco, hemp (hashish); sheep, goats
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of hashish and heroin for the international drug trade; hashish production is shipped to Western Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America; a key locus of cocaine processing and trafficking; a Lebanese/Syrian 1994 eradication campaign practically eliminated the opium crop and caused a 50% decrease in the cannabis crop
Exports: $1 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: agricultural products, chemicals, textiles, precious
and semiprecious metals and jewelry, metals and metal products
partners: Saudi Arabia 13%, Switzerland 12%, UAE 11%, Syria 9%, US 5%