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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