.)

Public debt:
27% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, rice, other grains, sugar beets, fruits, nuts, cotton; dairy
products, wool; caviar

Industries:
petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other construction
materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining and
vegetable oil production), metal fabrication, armaments

Industrial production growth rate:
3.5% excluding oil (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
129 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 97.1%
hydro: 2.9%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
119.9 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
3.962 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
1.4 million bbl/day (2002 est.)

Oil - exports:
2.5 million bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
130.8 billion bbl (2004 est.)

Natural gas - production:
79 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
72.4 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
3.4 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
4.92 billion cu m (2003 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
26.7 trillion cu m (2004)

Current account balance:
$2.1 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$38.79 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
petroleum 80%, chemical and petrochemical products, fruits and
nuts, carpets

Exports - partners:
Japan 18.4%, China 9.7%, Italy 6%, South Africa 5.8%, South Korea
5.4%, Taiwan 4.6%, Turkey 4.4%, Netherlands 4% (2004)

Imports:
$31.3 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
industrial raw materials and intermediate goods, capital goods,
foodstuffs and other consumer goods, technical services, military
supplies

Imports - partners:
Germany 12.8%, France 8.3%, Italy 7.7%, China 7.2%, UAE 7.2%, South
Korea 6.1%, Russia 5.4% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$29.87 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$13.4 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$408 million (2002 est.)

Currency (code):
Iranian rial (IRR)

Currency code:
IRR

Exchange rates:
rials per US dollar - 8,614 (2004), 8,193.9 (2003), 6,907 (2002),
1,753.6 (2001), 1,764.4 (2000)
note: Iran has been using a managed floating exchange rate regime
since unifying multiple exchange rates