r force:
total: 36.7 million (1997)
by occupation: agriculture 47%, mining and manufacturing 17%, services
17%, other 19%
note : extensive export of labor, mostly to the Middle East, and use
of child labor

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues : $12.5 billion
expenditures: $14 billion, including capital expenditures of $2.8
billion (FY95/96 est.)

Industries: textiles, food processing, beverages, construction
materials, clothing, paper products, shrimp

Industrial production growth rate: 6.1% (FY95/96 est.)

Electricity - capacity: 13.17 million kW (1994)

Electricity - production: 46.1 billion kWh (FY95/96)

Electricity - consumption per capita: 403 kWh (1995 est.)

Agriculture - products: cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane, fruits,
vegetables; milk, beef, mutton, eggs

Exports:
total value: $8.3 billion (FY95/96)
commodities: cotton, textiles, clothing, rice, leather, carpets
partners: US, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, UK, UAE, France

Imports:
total value: $12 billion (FY95/96)
commodities : petroleum, petroleum products, machinery, transportation
equipment, vegetable oils, animal fats, chemicals
partners: Japan, US, Germany, UK, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, South Korea

Debt - external: $28.6 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: $2.6 billion from all bilateral and multilateral sources
(FY95/96)

Currency: 1 Pakistani rupee (PRe) = 100 paisa

Exchange rates: Pakistani rupees (PRs) per US$1 - 40.120 (January
1997), 36.078 (1996), 31.643 (1995), 30.567 (1994), 28.1 (1993), 25.1
(1992); note - annual average of official rate; parallel market rate
is higher

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

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Telephones: 1.572 million (1993 est.)

Telephone system: the domestic system is mediocre, but adequate for
government and business use, in part because major businesses have
established their own private systems; since 1988, the government has
promoted investment in the national telecommunications system on a
priority basis; despite major improvements in trunk and urban systems,
telecommunication services are still not readily available to the
major portion of the population
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean
and 2 Indian Ocean); microwave radio relay to neighboring countries

Radio broadcast stations: AM 26, FM 8, shortwave 11

Radios: 11.3 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 29

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