Industrial production growth rate: -14% (1993)
Electricity: capacity: 1,600,000 kW production: 6.046 billion kWh consumption per capita: 2,941 kWh (1992)
Agriculture: rice, tobacco, wheat, corn, millet, cotton, sesame,
mulberry leaves, citrus, vegetables; beef, pork, poultry, mutton
Illicit drugs: limited illicit opium cultivation; transshipment
point for Southwest Asian heroin
Exports: $916.2 million (1995)
commodities: manufactured goods 40%, machinery and transport
equipment 14%, miscellaneous manufactured articles 23%, raw
materials 7.6%, food (rice) and live animals 5.7%, beverages and
tobacco 4.5%, chemicals 4.7% (1990)
partners: principally Serbia and Montenegro and the other former
Yugoslav republics, Germany, Greece, Albania
Imports: $199 million (1995)
commodities: fuels and lubricants 19%, manufactured goods 18%,
machinery and transport equipment 15%, food and live animals 14%,
chemicals 11.4%, raw materials 10%, miscellaneous manufactured
articles 8.0%, beverages and tobacco 3.5% (1990)
partners: other former Yugoslav republics, Greece, Albania, Germany,
Bulgaria
External debt: $737.1 million (1994)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
note: US, $10 million (for humanitarian and technical assistance);
in December 1995, the EU agreed to provide a credit line of ECU 21.7
million for investment projects
Currency: the denar, which was adopted by the Macedonian
legislature 26 April 1992, was initially issued in the form of a
coupon pegged to the German mark; subsequently repegged to a basket
of seven currencies
Exchange rates: denar per US$1 - 38.8 (December 1995), 39
(November 1994), 865 (October 1992)