services 31% (1995)

Unemployment rate: 5.7% includes only officially registered
unemployed; also large numbers of underemployed workers and
unregistered unemployed people (December 1998)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: aluminum, zinc, lead, chemicals and fertilizers,
cement, vegetable oil, metal-cutting machine tools, refrigerators
and freezers

Industrial production growth rate: 8% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 13.555 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 4.09%
hydro: 95.91%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 12.555 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 3.8 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 2.8 billion kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: cotton, grain, fruits, grapes, vegetables;
cattle, sheep, goats

Exports: $740 million (1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: cotton, aluminum, fruits, vegetable oil,
textiles

Exports--partners: FSU 78%, Netherlands (1994)

Imports: $810 million (1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: fuel, chemicals, machinery and transport
equipment, textiles, foodstuffs

Imports--partners: FSU 55%, Switzerland, UK (1994)

Debt--external: $1 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $64.7 million (1995)

Currency: the Tajikistani ruble (TJR) = 100 tanga

Exchange rates: Tajikistani rubles (TJR) per US$1--998 (January
1999), 350 (January 1997), 284 (January 1996)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 303,000 (1991 est.)

Telephone system: poorly developed and not well maintained; many
towns are not reached by the national network
domestic: cable and microwave radio relay
international: linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other
CIS republics, and by leased connections to the Moscow international
gateway switch; Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway
switch in Ankara (Turkey); satellite earth stations--1 Orbita and 2
Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations: 1 state-owned radio broadcast station
of NA type

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 0 (there are, however, repeaters
that relay programs from Russia, Iran, and Turkey) (1997)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways:
total: 480 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial
lines (1990)

Highways:
total: 13,700 km
paved: 11,330 km (note--these roa