eing the most important crop. Mineral resources, varied but limited
in amount, include silver, gold, uranium, and tungsten. Industry is
limited to a large aluminum plant, hydropower facilities, and small
obsolete factories mostly in light industry and food processing. The
Tajik economy has been gravely weakened by three years of civil war
and by the loss of subsidies and markets for its products, which has
left Tajikistan dependent on Russia and Uzbekistan and on
international humanitarian assistance for much of its basic
subsistence needs. Moreover, constant political turmoil and the
continued dominance by former Communist officials have impeded the
introduction of meaningful economic reforms. In the meantime,
Tajikistan's efforts to adopt the Russian ruble as its domestic
currency despite Russia's unwillingness to supply sufficient rubles
left the country in a severe monetary crisis throughout 1994, keeping
inflation low but leaving workers and pensioners unpaid for months at
a time. The government has announced plans to introduce its own
currency in 1995 to help resolve the problem.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $8.5 billion (1994
estimate as extrapolated from World Bank estimate for 1992)

National product real growth rate: -12% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $1,415 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Unemployment rate: 1.5% includes only officially registered
unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers and
unregistered unemployed people (September 1994)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Exports: $320 million to outside the FSU countries (1994)
commodities: cotton, aluminum, fruits, vegetable oil, textiles
partners: Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan

Imports: $318 million from outside the FSU countries (1994)
commodities: fuel, chemicals, machinery and transport equipment,
textiles, foodstuffs
partners: Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate -31% (1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 3,800,000 kW
production: 17 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,800 kWh (1994)

Industries: aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers, cement,
vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators and freezers

Agriculture: cotton, grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables; cattle, sheep
and goats

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