product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $191.1 billion (1994
est.)

National product real growth rate: 5.5% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $4,920 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 30% (1994)

Unemployment rate: 16.1% (November 1994)

Budget:
revenues: $27.1 billion
expenditures: $30 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1994
est.)

Exports: $16.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: intermediate goods 26.5%, machinery and transport
equipment 18.1%, miscellaneous manufactures 16.7%, foodstuffs 9.4%,
fuels 8.4% (1993)
partners: Germany 33.4%, Russia 10.2%, Italy 5.3%, UK 4.3% (1993)

Imports: $18.1 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and transport equipment 29.6%, intermediate
goods 18.5%, chemicals 13.3%, fuels 12.5%, miscellaneous manufactures
10.1%
partners: Germany 35.8%, Italy 9.2%, Russia 8.5%, UK 6.6% (1993)

External debt: $47 billion (1993); note - Poland's Western government
creditors promised in 1991 to forgive 30% of Warsaw's $35 billion
official debt immediately and to forgive another 20% in 1994; foreign
banks agreed in early 1994 to forgive 45% of their $12 billion debt
claim

Industrial production: growth rate 12% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 31,120,000 kW
production: 124 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,908 kWh (1993)

Industries: machine building, iron and steel, extractive industries,
chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles

Agriculture: accounts for 7% of GDP; 75% of output from private farms,
25% from state farms; productivity remains low by European standards;
leading European producer of rye, rapeseed, and potatoes; wide variety
of other crops and livestock; major exporter of pork products;
normally self-sufficient in food

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of opium for domestic consumption and
amphetamines for the international market; transshipment point for
Asian and Latin American illicit drugs to Western Europe; producer of
precursor chemicals

Economic aid:
donor: bilateral aid to non-Communist less developed countries
(1954-89), $2.2 billion
recipient: Western governments and institutions have pledged $8
billion in grants and loans since 1989, but most of the money has not
been disbursed

Currency: 1 zloty (Zl) = 100 groszy

Exchange rates: zlotych (Zl) per US$1 - 2.45 (January 1995; a currency
reform on 1 January 1995 replac