.o.b., 1994)
commodities: gold and jewelry, aluminum, transport equipment,
electrical equipment
partners: Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Georgia

Imports: $120 million from countries outside the FSU (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: grain, other foods, fuel, other energy
partners: Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Georgia, US, EU

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate 7% (1994 est.); accounts for 41% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 4,620,000 kW
production: 5.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,620 kWh (1994)

Industries: traditionally diverse, including (as a percent of output
of former USSR) metalcutting machine tools (5.5%), forging-pressing
machines (1.9%), electric motors (9%), tires (1.5%), knitted wear
(4.4%), hosiery (3.0%), shoes (2.2%), silk fabric (0.8%), washing
machines (2.0%), chemicals, trucks, watches, instruments, and
microelectronics (1990); currently, much of industry is shut down

Agriculture: only 17% of land area is arable; employs 31% of labor
force as residents increasingly turn to subsistence agriculture;
fruits (especially grapes) and vegetable farming, minor livestock
sector; vineyards near Yerevan are famous for brandy and other
liqueurs

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of cannabis mostly for domestic
consumption; used as a transshipment point for illicit drugs to
Western Europe

Economic aid:
recipient: considerable humanitarian aid, mostly food and energy
products, from US and EU; Russia granted 60 billion rubles in
technical credits in late 1994 and approved a 110 billion ruble credit
almost half of which was to go toward the restart of the Metsamor
nuclear power plant

Currency: 1 dram = 100 luma (introduced new currency in November 1993)

Exchange rates: dram per US$1 - 406 (end December 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 840 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial
lines
broad gauge: 840 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways:
total: 11,300 km
paved: 10,500 km
unpaved: earth 800 km (1990)

Inland waterways: NA km

Pipelines: natural gas 900 km (1991)

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 11
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 1

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