nal product per capita: $3,190 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12% (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: 13.6% (1993 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $2.3 billion
expenditures: $3.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.5
billion (1993)

Exports: $2.9 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: garments and textiles, teas, diamonds, other gems,
petroleum products, rubber products, other agricultural products,
marine products, graphite
partners: US 35.2%, Germany, UK, Belgium-Luxembourg, Japan,
Netherlands, France (1993)

Imports: $4 billion (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: textiles and textile materials, machinery and equipment,
transport equipment, petroleum, building materials
partners: Japan, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore,
China (1993)

External debt: $7.2 billion (1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 9% (1993 est.); accounts for 16% of
GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 1,410,000 kW
production: 3.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 168 kWh (1993)

Industries: processing of rubber, tea, coconuts, and other
agricultural commodities; clothing, cement, petroleum refining,
textiles, tobacco

Agriculture: accounts for one-fourth of GDP; field crops - rice,
sugarcane, grains, pulses, oilseeds, roots, spices; cash crops - tea,
rubber, coconuts; animal products - milk, eggs, hides, meat; not
self-sufficient in rice production

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1980-89), $5.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $169 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $369 million

Currency: 1 Sri Lankan rupee (SLRe) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Sri Lankan rupees (SLRes) per US$1 - 50.115 (January
1995), 49.415 (1994), 48.322 (1993), 43.830 (1992), 41.372 (1991),
40.063 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Sri Lanka:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 1,948 km
broad gauge: 1,948 km 1.868-m gauge (102 km double track) (1990)

Highways:
total: 75,263 km
paved: mostly bituminous treated 27,637 km
unpaved: crushed stone, gravel 32,887 km; improved, unimproved earth
14,739 km

Inland waterways: 430 km; navigable by shallow-draft craft

Pipelines: crude oil and petroleum products 62 km (1987)

Ports: Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Trincomalee

Merchant marine:
total: 26 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 289,115 GRT/453,609 DWT
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