nflation rate (consumer prices): 38% (1994 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $4.4 billion
expenditures: $6.7 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY93/94 est.)

Exports: $674 million (FY93/94 est.)
commodities: pulses and beans, teak, rice, hardwood
partners: Singapore, China, Thailand, India, Hong Kong

Imports: $1.2 billion (FY93/94 est.)
commodities: machinery, transport equipment, chemicals, food products
partners: Japan, China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia

External debt: $5.4 billion (FY93/94 est.)

Industrial production: growth rate 4.9% (FY92/93 est.); accounts for
10% of GDP

Electricity:
capacity: 1,100,000 kW
production: 2.6 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 55 kWh (1993)

Industries: agricultural processing; textiles and footwear; wood and
wood products; petroleum refining; mining of copper, tin, tungsten,
iron; construction materials; pharmaceuticals; fertilizer

Agriculture: accounts for 65% of GDP and 65% of employment (including
fishing, animal husbandry, and forestry); self-sufficient in food;
principal crops - paddy rice, corn, oilseed, sugarcane, pulses;
world's largest stand of hardwood trees; rice and timber account for
55% of export revenues

Illicit drugs: world's largest illicit producer of opium (2,030 metric
tons in 1994 - dropped 21% due to regional drought in 1994) and minor
producer of cannabis for the international drug trade; opium
production continues to be almost double since the collapse of
Rangoon's antinarcotic programs; growing role in amphetamine
production for regional consumption

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $158 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $3.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $424 million

Currency: 1 kyat (K) = 100 pyas

Exchange rates: kyats (K) per US$1 - 5.8640 (January 1995), 5.9749
(1994), 6.1570 (1993), 6.1045 (1992), 6.2837 (1991), 6.3386 (1990);
unofficial - 120

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

@Burma:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 3,991 km (3,878 km common carrier lines, 113 km industrial
lines)
standard gauge: 3,878 km 1.435-m gauge
other: 113 km NA-m gauge

Highways:
total: 27,000 km
paved: bituminous 3,200 km
unpaved: gravel, improved earth 17,700 km; unimproved earth 6,100 km

Inland waterways: 12,800 km; 3,200 km navigable by large commercial
vesse