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tion rate (consumer prices): 2.5% (1999) Labor force: 1.5 million (1999) Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 55%, services 25%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 20% (1999 est.) Unemployment rate: 20% (1998 est.) note: official rate is 9.3% for 1998 Budget: revenues: $360 million expenditures: $566 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.) Industries: metal-cutting machine tools, forging-pressing machines, electric motors, tires, knitted wear, hosiery, shoes, silk fabric, washing machines, chemicals, trucks, watches, instruments, microelectronics Industrial production growth rate: -2% (1998) Electricity - production: 5.764 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 48.92% hydro: 26.44% nuclear: 24.64% other: 0% (1998) Electricity - consumption: 5.361 billion kWh (1998) Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998) Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998) Agriculture - products: fruit (especially grapes), vegetables; livestock Exports: $240 million (1999 est.) Exports - commodities: diamonds, scrap metal, machinery and equipment, cognac, copper ore Exports - partners: Belgium, Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan, US, Georgia (1998) Imports: $782 million (1999 est.) Imports - commodities: natural gas, petroleum, tobacco products, foodstuffs, diamonds Imports - partners: Russia, US, UK, Iran, Turkey, Belgium (1998) Debt - external: $862.7 million (1999) Economic aid - recipient: $245.5 million (1995) Currency: 1 dram = 100 luma Exchange rates: dram per US$1 - 527.02 (January 2000), 535.06 (1999), 504.92 (1998), 490.85 (1997), 414.04 (1996), 405.91 (1995) Fiscal year: calendar year @Armenia:Communications Telephones - main lines in use: 583,000 (1995) Telephones - mobile cellular: NA Telephone system: system inadequate; now 90% privately owned and undergoing modernization and expansion domestic: the majority of subscribers and the most modern equipment are in Yerevan (this includes paging and mobile cellular service) international: Yerevan is connected to the Trans-Asia-Europe fiber-optic cable through Iran; additional international service is available by microwave radio relay and landline connections to the other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and through the Moscow international switch and by satellite to the rest of the world; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat Radio broadcast stations: AM 9, FM
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