y - $93.7 billion (1994
est.)
National product real growth rate: 0.4% (1994 est.)
National product per capita: $8,870 (1994 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10.9% (1994 est.)
Unemployment rate: 10.1% (1994 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $28.3 billion
expenditures: $37.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $5.2
billion (1994)
Exports: $9 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: manufactured goods 53%, foodstuffs 34%, fuels 5%
partners: Germany 24%, Italy 14%, France 7%, UK 6%, US 4% (1993)
Imports: $19.2 billion (f.o.b., 1993)
commodities: manufactured goods 72%, foodstuffs 15%, fuels 10%
partners: Germany 16%, Italy 14%, France 7%, Japan 7%, UK 6% (1993)
External debt: $26.9 billion (1993)
Industrial production: growth rate 3.2% (1993 est.); accounts for 18%
of GDP
Electricity:
capacity: 8,970,000 kW
production: 35.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 3,257 kWh (1993)
Industries: tourism, food and tobacco processing, textiles, chemicals,
metal products, mining, petroleum
Agriculture: including fishing and forestry, accounts for 12% of GDP;
principal products - wheat, corn, barley, sugar beets, olives,
tomatoes, wine, tobacco, potatoes; self-sufficient in food except
meat, dairy products, and animal feedstuffs
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and limited opium; mostly
for domestic production; serves as a gateway to Europe for traffickers
smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia
to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; transshipment point
for Southwest Asian heroin transiting the Balkan route
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-81), $525 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1.39 billion
Currency: 1 drachma (Dr) = 100 lepta
Exchange rates: drachmae (Dr) per US$1 - 238.20 (January 1995), 242.60
(1994), 229.26 (1993), 190.62 (1992), 182.27 (1991), 158.51 (1990)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Greece:Transportation
Railroads:
total: 2,503 km
standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge (36 km electrified; 100 km
double track)
narrow gauge: 887 km 1,000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge; 29 km 0.600-m
gauge
Highways:
total: 130,000 km
paved: 119,210 km (116 km expressways)
unpaved: 10,790 km (1990)
Inland waterways: 80 km; system consists of three coastal canals;
including the Corinth Canal (6 km) which crosse
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