Exports:
$7.7 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
crude oil, refined petroleum products, natural gas
partners:
Italy, Germany, Spain, France, UK, Turkey, Greece, Egypt
Imports:
$8.26 billion (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities:
machinery, transport equipment, food, manufactured goods
partners:
Italy, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Turkey, Tunisia, Eastern Europe
External debt:
$3.5 billion excluding military debt (1991 est.)
Industrial production:
growth rate 10.5% (1990)
Electricity:
capacity:
4,935,000 kW
production:
14.385 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
2,952 kWh (1992)
Industries:
petroleum, food processing, textiles, handicrafts, cement
Agriculture:
5% of GNP; cash crops - wheat, barley, olives, dates, citrus fruits,
peanuts; 75% of food is imported
Economic aid:
recipient:
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $242 million
note:
no longer a recipient
Currency:
1 Libyan dinar (LD) = 1,000 dirhams
Exchange rates:
Libyan dinars (LD) per US$1 - 0.3233 (January 1994), 0.3250 (1993),
0.3013 (1992), 0.2684 (1991), 0.2699 (1990), 0.2922 (1989)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Railroads:
Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all previous
systems having been dismantled; current plans are to construct a
standard gauge (1.435 m) line from the Tunisian frontier to Tripoli
and Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a mineral rich area, but
there has been no progress; other plans made jointly with Egypt would
establish a rail line from As Sallum, Egypt to Tobruk with completion
set for mid-1994, progress unknown
Highways:
total:
19,300 km
paved:
bituminous 10,800 km
unpaved:
gravel, earth 8,500 km
Inland waterways:
none
Pipelines:
crude oil 4,383 km; petroleum products 443 km (includes liquified
petroleum gas 256 km); natural gas 1,947 km
Ports:
Tobruk, Tripoli, Banghazi, Misratah, Marsa al Burayqah, Ra's Lanuf,
Ra's al Unif
Merchant marine:
31 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 690,703 GRT/1,211,184 DWT, cargo
10, chemical tanker 1, liquefied gas 2, oil tanker 10,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 4, short-sea passenger 4
Airports:
total:
145
usable:
132
with permanent-surface runways:
57
with runways over 3,659 m:
8
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
28
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
52
Telecommunications:
modern telecommunications system using radio relay, coaxia