fficiency are among the
challenges for the future.

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $37.1 billion (1994
est.)

National product real growth rate: 4.4% (1994 est.)

National product per capita: $4,250 (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (1993 est.)

Unemployment rate: 16.2% (1993 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.3 billion
expenditures: $5.5 billion, including capital expenditures to $NA
(1993 est.)

Exports: $4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates and
chemicals
partners: EC countries 75%, Middle East 10%, Algeria 2%, India 2%, US
1%

Imports: $6.5 billion (c.i.f., 1993)
commodities: industrial goods and equipment 57%, hydrocarbons 13%,
food 12%, consumer goods
partners: EC countries 70%, US 5%, Middle East 2%, Japan 2%,
Switzerland 1%, Algeria 1%

External debt: $7.7 billion (1993 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989); accounts for 22% of GDP,
including petroleum

Electricity:
capacity: 1,410,000 kW
production: 5.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 595 kWh (1993)

Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron ore),
tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages

Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and one-third of labor force;
output subject to severe fluctuations because of frequent droughts;
export crops - olives, dates, oranges, almonds; other products -
grain, sugar beets, wine grapes, poultry, beef, dairy; not
self-sufficient in food

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $730 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89) $52 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $684 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $410 million

Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 millimes

Exchange rates: Tunisian dinars (TD) per US$1 - 0.9849 (January 1995),
1.0116 (1994), 1.0037 (1993), 0.8844 (1992), 0.9246 (1991), 0.8783
(1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

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Railroads:
total: 2,260 km
standard gauge: 492 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,758 km 1.000-m gauge
dual gauge: 10 km 1.000-m and 1.435-m gauges

Highways:
total: 29,183 km
paved: bituminous 17,510 km
unpaved: improved, unimproved earth 11,673 km

Pipelines: crude oil 797 km; petroleum products 86 km; natural gas 742
km

Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, Zarzis