Budget:
revenues: $4.6 billion
expenditures: $4.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)
Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction
materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling
Industrial production growth rate: -1.1% (1994 est.)
Electricity: capacity: 4,760,000 kW production: 16.5 billion kWh consumption per capita: 5,796 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy
products; fish
Illicit drugs: growing role as heroin transshipment and
money-laundering center
Exports: $25.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: crude oil 66%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates
partners: Japan 45%, India 6%, Oman 6%, South Korea 5%, Iran 5%
(1994)
Imports: $21.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
food
partners: Japan 11%, UK 8%, Germany 8%, US 8%, Italy 7% (1994)
External debt: $11.6 billion (1994 est.)
Economic aid: $NA