de and tourism 28%, manufacturing
27%, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries 16%, services 10%, government
10%, construction 9% (2000 est.)

Unemployment rate: 3.7% (2001 est.)

Budget: revenues: $20.3 billion expenditures: $27.2 billion, including
capital expenditures of $9.4 billion (2001 est.)

Industries: Peninsular Malaysia - rubber and oil palm processing and
manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining
and smelting, logging and processing timber; Sabah - logging, petroleum
production; Sarawak - agriculture processing, petroleum production and
refining, logging

Industrial production growth rate: -4% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production: 63.069 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 87.96% hydro: 12.04%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%

Electricity - consumption: 58.59 billion kWh (2000)

Electricity - exports: 75 million kWh (2000)

Electricity - imports: 11 million kWh (2000)

Agriculture - products: Peninsular Malaysia - rubber, palm oil, cocoa,
rice; Sabah - subsistence crops, rubber, timber, coconuts, rice; Sarawak -
rubber, pepper; timber

Exports: $94.4 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Exports - commodities: electronic equipment, petroleum and liquefied
natural gas, wood and wood products, palm oil, rubber, textiles, chemicals

Exports - partners: US 20%, Singapore 17%, Japan 14%, Hong Kong 4.5%,
Netherlands 4.5%, China 4%, Thailand 4% (2001 est.)

Imports: $76.9 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

Imports - commodities: electronics, machinery, petroleum products,
plastics, vehicles, iron and steel and iron and steel products, chemicals

Imports - partners: Japan 20%, US 17%, Singapore 13%, Taiwan 5%, China
4%, Germany 4%, Thailand 4% (2001 est.)

Debt - external: $44.7 billion (2001 est.)

Currency: ringgit (MYR)

Currency code: MYR

Exchange rates: ringgits per US dollar - 3.8000 (January 2002), 3.8000
(2001), 3.8000 (2000), 3.8000 (1999), 3.9244 (1998), 2.8133 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Malaysia

Telephones - main lines in use: 4.6 million (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 5 million (2000)

Telephone system: general assessment: modern system; international
service excellent domestic: good intercity service provided on Peninsular
Malaysia mainly by microwave radio relay; adequate intercity microwave
radio relay network between Sabah and Sarawak via Brunei; domestic
satellite system wi