n food;
several years of drought have hindered agricultural development.
Numerical estimates of Albanian economic activity are subject to an
especially wide margin of error because the government until recently
did not release economic information.

_#_GNP: $4.1 billion, per capita $1,250; real growth rate NA% (1990
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $2.3 billion; expenditures $2.3 billion,
including capital expenditures of NA (1989)

_#_Exports: $378 million (f.o.b., 1987 est.);

commodities--asphalt, bitumen, petroleum products, metals and
metallic ores, electricity, oil, vegetables, fruits, tobacco;

partners--Italy, Yugoslavia, FRG, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary

_#_Imports: $255 million (f.o.b., 1987 est.);

commodities--machinery, machine tools, iron and steel products,
textiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals;

partners--Italy, Yugoslavia, FRG, Czechoslovakia, Romania,
Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, GDR

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA

_#_Electricity: 1,690,000 kW capacity; 5,000 million kWh produced,
1,530 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: food processing, textiles and clothing, lumber,
oil, cement, chemicals, basic metals, hydropower

_#_Agriculture: arable land per capita among lowest in Europe;
one-half of work force engaged in farming; produces wide range of
temperate-zone crops and livestock; claims self-sufficiency in grain
output

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA (1988) $5.8 million

_#_Currency: lek (plural--leke); 1 lek (L) = 100 qintars

_#_Exchange rates: leke (L) per US$1--8.00 (noncommercial fixed rate
since 1986), 4.14 (commercial fixed rate since 1987)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 543 km total; 509 1.435-meter standard gauge, single
track and 34 km narrow gauge, single track (1990); line connecting
Titograd (Yugoslavia) and Shkoder (Albania) completed August 1986

_#_Highways: 16,700 km total; 6,700 km highway and roads, 10,000 km
forest and agricultural (1990)

_#_Inland waterways: 43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari,
Lake Ohrid, and Lake Prespa (1990)

_#_Pipelines: crude oil, 145 km; refined products, 55 km; natural gas,
64 km (1988)

_#_Ports: Durres, Sarande, Vlore

_#_Merchant marine: 11 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 52,886
GRT/