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opulation below poverty line: 21.8% (1991 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.7% highest 10%: 46.6% (1995) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.6% (1998) Labor force: 1.8 million (1995 est.) Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 45% Unemployment rate: 8.2% (urban) (1996 est.) Budget: revenues: $1.25 billion expenditures: $1.66 billion, including capital expenditures of $357 million (1995 est.) Industries: meat packing, oilseed crushing, milling, brewing, textiles, other light consumer goods, cement, construction Industrial production growth rate: 5.1% (1995) Electricity--production: 45.03 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 0.07% hydro: 99.93% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 4.768 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 40.262 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: cotton, sugarcane, soybeans, corn, wheat, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), fruits, vegetables; beef, pork, eggs, milk; timber Exports: $1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.) Exports--commodities: cotton, soybeans, timber, vegetable oils, meat products, coffee, tung oil Exports--partners: Brazil 48%, Netherlands 22%, Argentina 9%, US 4%, Uruguay 3%, Chile 2% (1997) Imports: $2.5 billion (c.i.f., 1996 est.) Imports--commodities: capital goods, consumer goods, foodstuffs, raw materials, fuels Imports--partners: Brazil 29%, US 22%, Argentina 14%, Hong Kong 9% (1995) Debt--external: $1.3 billion (1996) Economic aid--recipient: $180.4 million (1995) Currency: 1 guarani (G) = 100 centimos Exchange rates: guaranies (G) per US$--2,866.3 (January 1999), 2,755.7 (1998), 2,191.0 (1997), 2,062.8 (1996), 1,970.4 (1995), 1,911.5 (1994) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 88,730 (1985 est.) Telephone system: meager telephone service; principal switching center is Asuncion domestic: fair microwave radio relay network international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 40, FM 0, shortwave 7 Radios: 775,000 (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 10 (1997) Televisions: 370,000 (1992 est.) Transportation Railways: total: 971 km standard gauge: 441 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 60 km 1.000-m gauge note: there are 470 km of various gauges that
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