Population below poverty line: NA%

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15% (1998 est.)

Labor force: 2.5 million to 3 million

Labor force--by occupation: agriculture 80% (1997 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $261 million
expenditures: $496 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)

Industries: rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products,
rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles

Industrial production growth rate: 7% (1995 est.)

Electricity--production: 195 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 61.54%
hydro: 38.46%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 195 million kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: rice, rubber, corn, vegetables

Exports: $736 million (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Exports--commodities: timber, garments, rubber, soybeans, sesame

Exports--partners: Singapore, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Malaysia, US

Imports: $1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1997 est.)

Imports--commodities: cigarettes, gold, construction materials,
petroleum products, machinery, motor vehicles

Imports--partners: Singapore, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, Thailand

Debt--external: $2.2 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $569.8 million (1995)

Currency: 1 new riel (CR) = 100 sen

Exchange rates: riels (CR) per US$1--3,772.0 (January 1999),
3,744.4 (1998), 2,946.3 (1997), 2,624.1 (1996), 2,450.8 (1995),
2,545.3 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 7,000 (1981 est.)

Telephone system: adequate landline and/or cellular service in
Phnom Penh and other provincial cities; rural areas have little
telephone service
domestic: NA
international: adequate but expensive landline and cellular service
available to all countries from Phnom Penh and major provincial
cities; satellite earth station--1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 3, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 1 government-operated station and
four commercial stations broadcasting to Phnom Penh and major
provincial cities via relay (1998)

Televisions: 800,000 (1996 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 603 km
narrow gauge: 6