e of the loss of labor and capital and the
disruption of trade and transport. Millions of people continue to
suffer from insufficient food, clothing, housing, and lack of
medical care. Numerical data are extremely shaky.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $12.8 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: NA%

GDP per capita: $600 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 65%
industry: 15%
services: 20%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Labor force: 4.98 million
by occupation: agriculture and animal husbandry 67.8%, industry
10.2%, construction 6.3%, commerce 5.0%, services and other 10.7%
(1980 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: small-scale production of textiles, soap, furniture,
shoes, fertilizer, and cement; handwoven carpets; natural gas, oil,
coal, copper

Electricity:
capacity: 480,000 kW
production: 550 million kWh
consumption per capita: 39 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: wheat, fruits, nuts, karakul pelts; wool, mutton

Illicit drugs: an illicit cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis
for the international drug trade; world's second-largest opium
producer after Burma (1,250 metric tons in 1995) and a major source
of hashish

Exports: $188.2 million (f.o.b., 1991)
commodities: fruits and nuts, handwoven carpets, wool, cotton, hides
and pelts, precious and semi-precious gems
partners: FSU countries, Pakistan, Iran, Germany, India, UK,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia

Imports: $616.4 million (c.i.f., 1991)
commodities: food and petroleum products; most consumer goods
partners: FSU countries, Pakistan, Iran, Japan, Singapore, India,
South Korea, Germany

External debt: $2.3 billion (March 1991 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
note: US provided $450 million assistance (1985-93); the UN provides
assistance in the form of food aid, immunization, land mine removal,
and a wide range of aid to refugees and displaced persons

Currency: 1 afghani (AF) = 100 puls

Exchange rates: afghanis (Af) per US$1 - 7,000 (January 1995),
1,900 (January 1994), 1,019 (March 1993), 850 (1991); note - these
rates reflect the free market exchange rates rather than the
official exchange rate, which is a fixed rate of 50.600 afghanis to
the dollar

Fiscal year: 21 March - 20 March

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