ng state controls over the economy and
privatizing state industries. Nevertheless, restructuring proved to be
a slow and painful process in 1994 despite relatively large flows of
foreign aid and continued progress on economic reform. The decline in
output in 1995 may be much smaller, perhaps 5%, compared with an
estimated 24% in 1994.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $8.4 billion (1994
estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1992)

National product real growth rate: -24% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $1,790 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4% per month (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: 0.7% includes officially registered unemployed;
also large numbers of unregistered unemployed and underemployed
workers (1994)

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

Exports: $116 million to countries outside the FSU (1994)
commodities: wool, chemicals, cotton, ferrous and nonferrous metals,
shoes, machinery, tobacco
partners: Russia 70%, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and others

Imports: $92.4 million from countries outside the FSU (1994)
commodities: grain, lumber, industrial products, ferrous metals, fuel,
machinery, textiles, footwear
partners: other CIS republics

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate -24% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 3,660,000 kW
production: 12.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,700 kWh (1994)

Industries: small machinery, textiles, food-processing industries,
cement, shoes, sawn logs, refrigerators, furniture, electric motors,
gold, and rare earth metals

Agriculture: wool, tobacco, cotton, livestock (sheep, goats, cattle),
vegetables, meat, grapes, fruits and berries, eggs, milk, potatoes

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly
for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; used as
transshipment point for illicit drugs to Western Europe and North
America from Southwest Asia

Economic aid:
recipient: IMF aid commitments were $80 million in 1993 and $400
million in 1994

Currency: introduced national currency, the som (10 May 1993)

Exchange rates: soms per US$1 - 10.6 (yearend 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Kyrgyzstan:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 370 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial
lines
broad gauge: 370 km 1.520-m gauge (199