ding passage of adequate bankruptcy
and foreclosure legislation as well as privatization of state-owned
companies and recapitalization of the financial sector--remain
undone. Bangkok is also trying to establish a social safety net for
those displaced by the current economic crisis and is working to
increase the quality of Thailand's labor force.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$369 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: -8.5% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$6,100 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 12%
industry: 39%
services: 49% (1997 est.)

Population below poverty line: 13.1% (1992 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2.5%
highest 10%: 37.1% (1992)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.3% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 32.6 million (1997 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 54%, industry 15%,
services (including government) 31% (1996 est.)

Unemployment rate: 4.5% (1998 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $24 billion
expenditures: $25 billion, including capital expenditures of $8
billion (FY96/97)

Industries: tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural
processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as
jewelry; electric appliances and components, computers and parts,
integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest
tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer

Industrial production growth rate: -10% (1998)

Electricity--production: 82 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 91.46%
hydro: 8.54%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 82.561 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 79 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 640 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn,
sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans

Exports: $51.6 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: manufactures 82% (computers and parts 16%),
agricultural products and fisheries 14% (1997)

Exports--partners: US 19.6%, Japan 14.9%, Singapore 11%, Hong Kong
5.7%, Malaysia 4.3%, UK 3.7% (1997)

Imports: $73.5 billion (c.i.f., 1996)

Imports--commodities: capital goods 50%, intermediate goods and
raw materials 22%, consumer goods 10.2%, fuels 8.7% (1997)

Imports--partners: Japan 25.6%, US 13.9%, Singapore 5%, Taiwan
4.6%, Germany 4.5%, Malaysia 4.1% (1997)

Debt--external