valent - $16.7 billion (1993 est.)
National product real growth rate:
3.2% (1993 est.)
National product per capita:
$600 (1993 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
21% (1993 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$495 million
expenditures:
$631 million, including capital expenditures of $118 million (1990
est.)
Exports:
$418 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
commodities:
coffee, cotton, tobacco, tea, cashew nuts, sisal
partners:
FRG, UK, Japan, Netherlands, Kenya, Hong Kong, US
Imports:
$1.51 billion (c.i.f., 1992 est.)
commodities:
manufactured goods, machinery and transportation equipment, cotton
piece goods, crude oil, foodstuffs
partners:
FRG, UK, US, Japan, Italy, Denmark
External debt:
$6.44 billion (1992)
Industrial production:
growth rate 9.3% (1990); accounts for 8% of GDP
Electricity:
capacity:
405,000 kW
production:
600 million kWh
consumption per capita:
20 kWh (1991)
Industries:
primarily agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal
twine), diamond and gold mining, oil refinery, shoes, cement,
textiles, wood products, fertilizer
Agriculture:
accounts for over 58% of GDP; topography and climatic conditions limit
cultivated crops to only 5% of land area; cash crops - coffee, sisal,
tea, cotton, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums),
cashews, tobacco, cloves (Zanzibar); food crops - corn, wheat,
cassava, bananas, fruits, vegetables; small numbers of cattle, sheep,
and goats; not self-sufficient in food grain production
Illicit drugs:
growing role in transshipment of Southwest Asian heroin destined for
US and European markets
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $400 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $9.8
billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $44 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $614 million
Currency:
1 Tanzanian shilling (TSh) = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
Tanzanian shillings (TSh) per US$1 - 486.75 (January 1994), 405.27
(1993), 297.71 (1992), 219.16 (1991), 195.06 (1990), 143.38 (1989)
Fiscal year:
1 July-30 June

@Tanzania, Communications

Railroads:
969 km total; all of 1.067-meter gauge; connects with Zambia railroad
at Tazara
Highways:
total:
81,900 km
paved:
3,600 km
unpaved:
gravel, crushed stone 5,600 km; improved, unimproved earth 72,700 km
Inland waterways:
Lak