Agriculture-products: wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, other fruit, cotton; cattle, sheep
Exports: $NA commodities: crude oil partners: Jordan, Turkey (1996)
Imports: $NA commodities: manufactures, food partners: France, Turkey, Jordan, Vietnam, Australia (1996)
Debt-external: very heavy relative to GDP but amount unknown (1996)
Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 Iraqi dinar (ID) = 1,000 fils
Exchange rates: Iraqi dinars (ID) per US$1-0.3109 (fixed official rate since 1982); black market rate-Iraqi dinars (ID) per US$1-1,530 (December 1997), 3,000 (December 1995); subject to wide fluctuations
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 632,000 (1987 est.)