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wn in 1998. GDP: purchasing power parity--$12 billion (1998 est.) GDP--real growth rate: -3% (1998 est.) GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$17,100 (1998 est.) GDP--composition by sector: agriculture: 1% industry: 49% services: 50% (1996 est.) Population below poverty line: NA% Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA% Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.4% (1996) Labor force: 233,000 (1993 est.) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $3.4 billion expenditures: $4.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $700 million (FY98/99 budget est.) Industries: crude oil production and refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement Industrial production growth rate: -4% (1995) Electricity--production: 5.2 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996) Electricity--consumption: 5.2 billion kWh (1996) Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996) Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996) Agriculture--products: fruits, vegetables; poultry, dairy products, beef; fish Exports: $5.6 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.) Exports--commodities: petroleum products 80%, fertilizers, steel Exports--partners: Japan 49%, Singapore 12%, South Korea 12%, Thailand 4%, US 3% (1997) Imports: $4.4 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.) Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, consumer goods, food, chemicals Imports--partners: UK 25%, France 13%, Japan 10%, US 9%, Italy 6% (1997) Debt--external: $11 billion (1997 est.) Economic aid--recipient: $NA Currency: 1 Qatari riyal (QR) = 100 dirhams Exchange rates: Qatari riyals (QR) per US$1--3.6400 riyals (fixed rate) Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March Communications Telephones: 160,717 (1992 est.) Telephone system: modern system centered in Doha domestic: NA international: tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and UAE; submarine cable to Bahrain and UAE; satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 Radios: 201,000 (1992 est.) Television broadcast stations: 2 (in addition, there are three repeaters) (1997) Televisions: 205,000 (1992 est.) Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 1,230 km paved: 1,107 km
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