2%,
US 5%

Imports: $4.1 billion (c.i.f., 1993 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, machinery and transport equipment,
petroleum products
partners: Italy 14%, France 12%, US 6%, Turkey 5%, Saudi Arabia 3%

External debt: $765 million (1994 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 25% (1993 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 1,220,000 kW
production: 2.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 676 kWh (1993)

Industries: banking, food processing, textiles, cement, oil refining,
chemicals, jewelry, some metal fabricating

Agriculture: principal products - citrus fruits, vegetables, potatoes,
olives, tobacco, hemp (hashish), sheep, goats; not self-sufficient in
grain

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of hashish and heroin for the
international drug trade; hashish production is shipped to Western
Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America; increasingly a
key locus of cocaine processing and trafficking; a Lebanese/Syrian
1994 eradication campaign eliminated the opium crop and caused a 50%
decrease in the cannabis crop

Economic aid: the government estimates that it has received $1.7
billion in aid and has an additional $725 million in commitments to
support its $3 billion National Emergency Recovery Program

Currency: 1 Lebanese pound (#L) = 100 piasters

Exchange rates: Lebanese pounds (#L) per US$1 - 1,644.6 (January
1995), 1,680.1 (1994), 1,741.4 (1993), 1,712.8 (1992), 928.23 (1991),
695.09 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Lebanon:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 222 km
standard gauge: 222 km 1.435-m
note: system in disrepair, considered inoperable

Highways:
total: 7,300 km
paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: gravel 450 km; improved earth 650 km

Pipelines: crude oil 72 km (none in operation)

Ports: Al Batrun, Al Mina, An Naqurah, Antilyas, Az Zahrani, Beirut,
Jubayl, Juniyah, Shikka Jadidah, Sidon, Tripoli, Tyre

Merchant marine:
total: 64 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 260,383 GRT/381,937 DWT
ships by type: bulk 4, cargo 41, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk
1, combination ore/oil 1, container 2, livestock carrier 6,
refrigerated cargo 3, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2, specialized tanker 1,
vehicle carrier 2

Airports:
total: 9
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914