or force--by occupation: services 66%, industry 21%,
agriculture 13% (1996)

Unemployment rate: 26.8% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $816 million
expenditures: $866 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1997 est.)
note: includes West Bank

Industries: generally small family businesses that produce
textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl souvenirs;
the Israelis have established some small-scale modern industries in
an industrial center

Industrial production growth rate: NA%

Electricity--production: NA kWh
note: electricity supplied by Israel

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: NA%
hydro: NA%
nuclear: NA%
other: NA%

Electricity--consumption: NA kWh

Electricity--exports: NA kWh

Electricity--imports: NA kWh

Agriculture--products: olives, citrus, vegetables; beef, dairy
products

Exports: $781 million (f.o.b., 1997 est.) (includes West Bank)

Exports--commodities: citrus

Exports--partners: Israel, Egypt, West Bank

Imports: $2.1 billion (c.i.f., 1997 est.) (includes West Bank)

Imports--commodities: food, consumer goods, construction materials

Imports--partners: Israel, Egypt, West Bank

Debt--external: $108 million (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $NA

Currency: 1 new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 new agorot

Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (NIS) per US$1--4.2260
(November 1998), 3.4494 (1997), 3.1917 (1996), 3.0113 (1995), 3.0111
(1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year (since 1 January 1992)

Communications

Telephones: NA; 3.1% of Palestinian households have telephones

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: NA; note--95% of Palestinian households have radios (1992
est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (operated by the Palestinian
Broadcasting Corp.) (1997)

Televisions: NA; note--59% of Palestinian households have
televisions (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: NA km; note--one line, abandoned and in disrepair, little
trackage remains

Highways:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
note: small, poorly developed road network

Ports and harbors: Gaza

Airports: 2 (1998 est.)
note: includes Gaza International Airport that opened on 24 November
1998 as part of agreements stipulated in the 23 October 1998 Wye
River Memorandum

Airports--with paved runways: