% (1997)

Population below poverty line: NA%

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 8.6% (1998)

Labor force: 1.38 million (1997 est.)

Labor force--by occupation: government 25%, manufacturing 19%,
agriculture 11%, commerce 12%, utilities, construction, transport,
and communications 12%, other services 21% (1988 est.)

Unemployment rate: 10.5% (November 1998)

Budget:
revenues: $4 billion
expenditures: $4.3 billion, with capital expenditures of $385
million (1997 est.)

Industries: meat processing, wool and hides, sugar, textiles,
footwear, leather apparel, tires, cement, petroleum refining, wine

Industrial production growth rate: 5.6% (1997)

Electricity--production: 8.35 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 10.18%
hydro: 89.82%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 8.223 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 437 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 310 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, rice, corn, sorghum; livestock; fish

Exports: $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1997)

Exports--commodities: wool and textile manufactures, beef and
other animal products, rice, fish and shellfish, chemicals

Exports--partners: Brazil, Argentina, US, Germany, Italy, UK

Imports: $3.7 billion (c.i.f., 1997)

Imports--commodities: machinery and equipment, vehicles,
chemicals, minerals, plastics, oil

Imports--partners: Brazil, Argentina, US, Italy, Germany, France,
Spain

Debt--external: $4.6 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $79.7 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Uruguayan peso ($Ur) = 100 centesimos

Exchange rates: Uruguayan pesos ($Ur) per US$1--11.08 (January
1999), 9.98 (January 1998), 9.4418 (1997), 7.9718 (1996), 6.3491
(1995), 5.0529 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 767,333 (1997)

Telephone system: some modern facilities
domestic: most modern facilities concentrated in Montevideo; new
nationwide microwave radio relay network
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 72, FM 0, shortwave 28

Radios: 1.89 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 26 (in addition, there are ten
low-power repeaters for the Montevideo station) (1997)

Televisions: 1,131,065 (1996)

Transportation