Budget:
revenues: $5.4 billion
expenditures: $5.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $350
million (1998 budget est.)
Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction
materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling
Industrial production growth rate: 0% (1997 est.)
Electricity—production: 18 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)
Electricity—consumption: 18 billion kWh (1996)
Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)
Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)
Agriculture—products: dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy products; fish
Exports: $38 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)