ing to the
economy valuable scientific and professional expertise.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $80.1 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 7.1% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $15,500 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 3.5%
industry: 22%
services: 74.5%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.1% (1995)

Labor force: 1.9 million (1992)
by occupation: public services 29.3%, industry 22.1%, commerce
13.9%, finance and business 10.4%, personal and other services 7.4%,
construction 6.5%, transport, storage, and communications 6.3%,
agriculture, forestry, and fishing 3.5%, other 0.6% (1992)

Unemployment rate: 6.3% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $41 billion
expenditures: $53 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996)

Industries: food processing, diamond cutting and polishing,
textiles and apparel, chemicals, metal products, military equipment,
transport equipment, electrical equipment, potash mining,
high-technology electronics, tourism

Industrial production growth rate: 10.3% (1995 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 4,140,000 kW
production: 23 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 4,290 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: citrus and other fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef,
poultry, dairy products

Illicit drugs: increasingly concerned about cocaine and heroin
abuse and trafficking

Exports: $28.4 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, cut diamonds, chemicals,
textiles and apparel, agricultural products, metals
partners: US, EU, Japan

Imports: $40.1 billion (c.i.f., 1995 est.)
commodities: military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds,
oil, other productive inputs, consumer goods
partners: EU, US, Japan

External debt: $18.5 billion (1995 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: total receipts $12.14 billion of which $11.38 billion
from the US (1990-93)

Currency: 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot

Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1 - 3.1295
(January 1996), 3.0113 (1995), 3.0111 (1994), 2.8301 (1993), 2.4591
(1992), 2.2791 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year (since 1 January 1992)

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 526 km
standard gauge: 526 km 1.435-m gauge

Highways:
total: 13,461 km
paved: 13,461 km (including 56 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1992 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 708 km; petroleum products 290 km; natural
g