Unemployment rate: 20% (1991 est.)
Budget: revenues: $256 million expenditures : $269 million, including capital expenditures of $54 million (1995)
Industries: fish processing, mining of iron ore and gypsum
Industrial production growth rate: 7.2% (1994)
Electricity - capacity: 105,000 kW (1991)
Electricity - production: 135 million kWh (1991)
Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh
Agriculture - products: dates, millet, sorghum, root crops; cattle, sheep; fish products
Exports: total value: $483 million (f.o.b., 1995 est.) commodities: fish and fish products, iron ore, gold partners : Japan 27%, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg
Imports: total value: $365 million (c.i.f., 1995 est.) commodities: foodstuffs, consumer goods, petroleum products, capital goods partners: Algeria 15%, China 6%, US 3%, France, Germany, Spain, Italy