hasing power parity - $700 (2002 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 12.4%
industry: 25.3%
services: 62.4% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
26.3% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
53% (1993/94)

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
12.3% (2003)

Labor force:
NA (1999)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 80%, industry and services 20%

Unemployment rate:
NA (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $235.7 million
expenditures: $375 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2003 est.)

Agriculture - products:
sorghum, lentils, vegetables, corn, cotton, tobacco, coffee, sisal;
livestock, goats; fish

Industries:
food processing, beverages, clothing and textiles

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
220.5 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
205.1 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh NA kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh NA kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
6,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-159 million (2003)

Exports:
$56 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
livestock, sorghum, textiles, food, small manufactures (2000)

Exports - partners:
Malaysia 65.1%, Italy 10.4%, France 4.4% (2003)

Imports:
$600 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, petroleum products, food, manufactured goods (2000)

Imports - partners:
US 39.7%, Italy 19.1%, Turkey 6.8%, Russia 5.4%, France 4.7% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$28 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$311 million (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$77 million (1999)

Currency:
nakfa (ERN)

Currency code:
ERN

Exchange rates:
nakfa (ERN) per US dollar - NA (2003), 13.9582 (2002), 11.3095
(2001), 9.5 (2000), 7.6 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Eritrea

Telephones - main lines in use:
38,100 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
NA

Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate
domestic: very inadequate; most telephones are in Asmara; government
is seeking international tenders to improve the system (2002)
international: country code - 291; note - internationa