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ndustry, providing a vital offset to the sizable commodity trade deficit. _#_GDP: $76.7 billion, per capita $7,650; real growth rate 0.9% (1990) _#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 19.0% (1990) _#_Unemployment rate: 9.0% (1989) _#_Budget: revenues $20.9 billion; expenditures $34.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1990) _#_Exports: $9.0 billion (f.o.b., 1990); commodities--manufactured goods, food and live animals, fuels and lubricants, raw materials; partners--FRG 20%, Italy 17%, France 8%, UK 7%, US 6% _#_Imports: $20.2 billion (c.i.f., 1990); commodities--machinery and transport equipment, light manufactures, fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs, chemicals; partners--FRG 21%, Italy 16%, France 8%, Netherlands 7%, UK 6% _#_External debt: $18.7 billion (1989) _#_Industrial production: growth rate - 1.0% (1990 est.); accounts for 22% of GDP _#_Electricity: 10,500,000 kW capacity; 36,420 million kWh produced, 3,630 kWh per capita (1989) _#_Industries: food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals, metal products, tourism, mining, petroleum _#_Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for 13% of GNP and 27% of the labor force; principal products--wheat, corn, barley, sugar beets, olives, tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes, beef, mutton, pork, dairy products; self-sufficient in food; fish catch of 135,000 metric tons in 1987 _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-81), $525 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1.35 billion _#_Currency: drachma (plural--drachmas); 1 drachma (Dr) = 100 lepta _#_Exchange rates: drachma (Dr) per US$1--159.87 (January 1991), 158.51 (1990), 162.42 (1989), 141.86 (1988), 135.43 (1987), 139.98 (1986), 138.12 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: calendar year _*_Communications _#_Railroads: 2,479 km total; 1,565 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, of which 36 km electrified and 100 km double track, 892 km 1.000-meter gauge; 22 km 0.750-meter narrow gauge; all government owned _#_Highways: 38,938 km total; 16,090 km paved, 13,676 km crushed stone and gravel, 5,632 km improved earth, 3,540 km unimproved earth _#_Inland waterways: 80 km; system consists of three coastal canals and three unconnected rivers _#_Pipelines: crude oil, 26 km; refined products, 547 km _#_Ports: Piraeus, Thessaloniki _#_Merchant marine: 958 ships (1,000 GRT or
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