8
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: 40% (1990 est.)

_#_Budget: revenues $47.4 million; expenditures $45.7 million,
including capital expenditures of NA (FY86)

_#_Exports: $150 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.); commodities--NA;
partners--Jordan, Israel

_#_Imports: $410 million (c.i.f., 1988 est.); commodities--NA;
partners--Jordan, Israel

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: power supplied by Israel

_#_Industries: generally small family businesses that produce cement,
textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs; the
Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in the
settlements and industrial centers

_#_Agriculture: olives, citrus and other fruits, vegetables, beef,
and dairy products

_#_Economic aid: none

_#_Currency: new Israeli shekel (plural--shekels) and Jordanian dinar
(plural--dinars); 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot and
1 Jordanian dinar (JD) = 1,000 fils

_#_Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1--2.35 (May
1991), 2.0161 (1990), 1.9164 (1989), 1.5989 (1988), 1.5946 (1987), 1.4878
(1986), 1.1788 (1985); Jordanian dinars (JD) per US$1--0.6670 (January
1991), 0.6636 (1990), 0.5704 (1989), 0.3709 (1988), 0.3387 (1987), 0.3499
(1986), 0.3940 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: previously 1 April-31 March; FY91 will be
1 April-31 December and starting 1 January 1992 the fiscal year will
conform to the calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: small indigenous road network, Israelis developing
east-west axial highways

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: open-wire telephone system currently being
upgraded; stations--no AM, no FM, no TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: NA

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 257,740; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_Western Sahara
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 266,000 km2; land area: 266,000 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Colorado

_#_Land boundaries: 2,046 km total; Algeria 42 km, Mauritania
1,561 km, Morocco 443 km

_#_Coastline: 1,110 km

_#_Maritime claims: contingent upon resolution of sovereignty issue

_#_Disputes: claimed and administered by Morocco, but sovereignty is
unresolve