Budget:
revenues: $18 billion
expenditures: $19.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.8
billion (FY94/95 est.)
Industries: textiles, food processing, tourism, chemicals,
petroleum, construction, cement, metals
Industrial production growth rate: NA%
Electricity: capacity: 11,830,000 kW production: 44.5 billion kWh consumption per capita: 695 kWh (1993)
Agriculture: cotton, rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water buffalo, sheep, goats; annual fish catch about 140,000 metric tons
Illicit drugs: a transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast
Asian heroin and opium moving to Europe and the US; popular transit
stop for Nigerian couriers; large domestic consumption of hashish
from Lebanon and Syria
Exports: $5.4 billion (f.o.b., FY94/95 est.)
commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, cotton yarn, raw
cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals
partners: EU, US, Japan
Imports: $15.2 billion (c.i.f., FY94/95 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, foods, fertilizers, wood
products, durable consumer goods, capital goods
partners: US, EU, Japan
External debt: $33.6 billion (FY93/94 est.)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $1.713 billion (1993)