eclining
assistance from the international community.

GDP: purchasing power parity--$5.8 billion (1998 est.)

GDP--real growth rate: 30% (1998 est.)

GDP--per capita: purchasing power parity?$1,720 (1998 est.)

GDP--composition by sector:
agriculture: 19%
industry: 23%
services: 58% (1996 est.)

Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA%

Labor force: 1,026,254

Labor force--by occupation: NA%

Unemployment rate: 40%-50% (1996 est.)

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

Industries: steel, coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, manganese,
bauxite, vehicle assembly, textiles, tobacco products, wooden
furniture, tank and aircraft assembly, domestic appliances, oil
refining (much of capacity damaged or shut down) (1995)

Industrial production growth rate: 35% (1998 est.)

Electricity--production: 2.3 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 34.78%
hydro: 65.22%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 2.504 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 182 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 386 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: wheat, corn, fruits, vegetables; livestock

Exports: $152 million (1995 est.)

Exports--commodities: NA

Exports--partners: NA

Imports: $1.1 billion (1995 est.)

Imports--commodities: NA

Imports--partners: NA

Debt--external: $3.5 billion (yearend 1995 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $1.2 billion (1997 pledged)

Currency: 1 convertible marka (KM) = 100 convertible pfenniga

Exchange rates: NA

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 727,000

Telephone system: telephone and telegraph network is in need of
modernization and expansion; many urban areas are below average when
compared with services in other former Yugoslav republics
domestic: NA
international: no satellite earth stations

Radio broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 16, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 840,000

Television broadcast stations: 21 (1997)

Televisions: 1,012,094

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,021 km (electrified 795 km; operating as diesel or steam
until grids are repaired)
standard gauge: 1,021 km 1.435-m gauge (1995); note--some segments
still need repair and/or reconstruction

Highways: