Budget: revenues: $482 million expenditures: $1.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $30 million (1996)
Industries: cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1996 est.)
Electricity-capacity: 500,000 kW (1995)
Electricity-production: 1.305 billion kWh (1995)
Electricity-consumption per capita: 43 kWh (1995)
Agriculture-products: cotton, groundnuts, sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sesame; sheep
Exports: total value: $620 million (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: cotton 23%, sesame 22%, livestock/meat 13%, gum arabic 5% (1996) partners: Saudi Arabia 20%, UK 14%, China 11%, Italy 8% (1996)
Imports: total value: $1.5 billion (1996) commodities: foodstuffs, petroleum products, manufactured goods, machinery and equipment, medicines and chemicals, textiles (1996) partners: Saudi Arabia 10%, South Korea 7%, Germany 6%, Egypt 6% (1996)
Debt-external: $20.3 billion (1996 est.)