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