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.6% (1998 est.) GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$6,800 (1998 est.) GDP--composition by sector: agriculture: 5.1% industry: 26.6% services: 68.3% (1997) Population below poverty line: 23.8% (1993 est.) Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4% highest 10%: 22.1% (1992) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11% (1998 est.) Labor force: 17.4 million (1998 est.) Labor force--by occupation: industry and construction 29.9%, agriculture 26%, services 44.1% (1996) Unemployment rate: 10% (1998) Budget: revenues: $36.5 billion expenditures: $38.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.) Industries: machine building, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages, textiles Industrial production growth rate: 7.9% (1998 est.) Electricity--production: 134.731 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 97.09% hydro: 2.91% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 132.291 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 7.925 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 5.485 billion kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: potatoes, fruits, vegetables, wheat; poultry, eggs, pork, beef, milk, cheese Exports: $27.2 billion (f.o.b., 1997) Exports--commodities: manufactured goods, chemicals 57%, machinery and equipment 21%, food and live animals 12%, mineral fuels 7%, other 3% Exports--partners: Germany 32.9%, Russia 8.4%, Italy 5.9%, Ukraine 4.7%, Netherlands 4.7%, France 4.4% Imports: $38.5 billion (f.o.b., 1997) Imports--commodities: manufactured goods, chemical 43%, machinery and equipment 36%, mineral fuels 9%, food and live animals 8%, other 4% Imports--partners: Germany 24.1%, Italy 9.9%, Russia 6.3%, UK 5.5%, US 4.5%, France 5.9% Debt--external: $42 billion (1997) Economic aid--recipient: $4.312 billion (1995) Currency: 1 zloty (Zl) = 100 groszy Exchange rates: zlotych (Zl) per US$1--3.5409 (January 1999), 3.4754 (1998), 3.2793 (1997), 2.6961 (1996), 2.4250 (1995); note--a currency reform on 1 January 1995 replaced 10,000 old zlotys with 1 new zloty; 22,723 (1994) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Telephones: 8.2 million (1996) Telephone system: underdeveloped and outmoded system; government aims to have 10 million telephones in service by 2000; the process of partial privatiza
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