d not occurred by the end of 2003, massive receipts from donor
nations stabilized government finances in 2002-04.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $17.82 billion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $4,800 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 12%
industry: 21%
services: 67% (2000)

Investment (gross fixed):
24.8% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
28% (1999 est.)

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
1.5 million
note: in addition, there are as many as 1 million foreign workers
(2001 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA

Unemployment rate:
18% (1997 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.414 billion
expenditures: $7.026 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)

Public debt:
185.1% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
citrus, grapes, tomatoes, apples, vegetables, potatoes, olives,
tobacco; sheep, goats

Industries:
banking; food processing; jewelry; cement; textiles; mineral and
chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil refining; metal
fabricating

Industrial production growth rate:
NA

Electricity - production:
6.728 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
7.44 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
1.183 billion kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
107,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-2.865 billion (2003)

Exports:
$1.359 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
authentic jewelry, inorganic chemicals, miscellaneous consumer
goods, fruit, tobacco, construction minerals, electric power
machinery and switchgear, textile fibers, paper

Exports - partners:
Switzerland 10.8%, UAE 10%, Saudi Arabia 7.5%, US 7.3%, Turkey
5.5%, Jordan 4.4% (2003)

Imports:
$6.073 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, cars, medicinal products, clothing, meat and
live animals, consumer goods, paper, textile fabrics, tobacco

Imports - partners:
France 13.4%, Germany 11.7%, Italy 10.7%, Syria 5.3%, China 5.2%,
UK 4.9%, US 4.5% (2003)

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