n and soil erosion
continue to create problems. The industrial sector in Rwanda is small,
contributing only 17% to GDP. Manufacturing focuses mainly on the
processing of agricultural products. The Rwandan economy remains
dependent on coffee/tea exports and foreign aid. Weak international
prices since 1986 have caused the economy to contract and per capita
GDP to decline. A structural adjustment program with the World Bank
began in October 1990. Ethnic-based insurgency since 1990 has
devastated wide areas, especially in the north, and displaced hundreds
of thousands of people. A peace accord in mid-1993 temporarily ended
most of the fighting, but massive resumption of civil warfare in April
1994 in the capital city Kigali and elsewhere has been taking
thousands of lives and severely affecting short-term economic
prospects. The economy suffers massively from failure to maintain the
infrastructure, looting, neglect of important cash crops, and lack of
health care facilities.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $7.9 billion (1993
est.)

National product real growth rate: -8% (1993 est.)

National product per capita: $950 (1993 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $350 million
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (1992 est.)

Exports: $44 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: coffee 63%, tea, cassiterite, wolframite, pyrethrum
partners: Germany, Belgium, Italy, Uganda, UK, France, US

Imports: $250 million (f.o.b., 1993 est.)
commodities: textiles, foodstuffs, machines and equipment, capital
goods, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material
partners: US, Belgium, Germany, Kenya, Japan

External debt: $873 million (1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate -2.2% (1991); accounts for 17% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 60,000 kW
production: 190 million kWh
consumption per capita: 23 kWh (1993)

Industries: mining of cassiterite (tin ore) and wolframite (tungsten
ore), tin, cement, agricultural processing, small-scale beverage
production, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles,
cigarettes

Agriculture: cash crops - coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made
from chrysanthemums); main food crops - bananas, beans, sorghum,
potatoes; stock raising

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $128 million;
Western (non-US