ducational facilities, to face
up to environmental problems, to deal with the rapidly growing
problem of HIV/AIDS, and to satisfy foreign donors that fiscal
discipline is being tightened. The performance of the tobacco sector
is key to short-term growth as tobacco accounts for over 50% of
exports.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $6.845 billion (2003 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
1.7% (2003 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $600 (2003 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 51%
industry: 21.8%
services: 27.2% (2003 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
12.3% of GDP (2003)

Population below poverty line:
55% (2003 est.)

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

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9.5% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
4.5 million (2001 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 90% (2003 est.)

Unemployment rate:
NA (2003 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $528.1 million
expenditures: $653.2 million, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003)

Public debt:
235.7% of GDP (2003)

Agriculture - products:
tobacco, sugarcane, cotton, tea, corn, potatoes, cassava (tapioca),
sorghum, pulses; groundnuts, Macadamia nuts; cattle, goats

Industries:
tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill products, cement, consumer goods

Industrial production growth rate:
-1.6% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
769.2 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
715.3 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

Oil - consumption:
5,400 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-58 million (2003)

Exports:
$455 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
tobacco 60%, tea, sugar, cotton, coffee, peanuts, wood products,
apparel

Exports - partners:
South Africa 23.3%, US 13.4%, Germany 11.3%, Egypt 5.7%, Portugal
4.8%, Japan 4.5%, Netherlands 4.1% (2003)

Imports:
$505 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
food, petroleum products, semimanufactures, consumer goods,
transportation equipment

Imports - partners:
South Africa 53.7%, India 4.9%, Tanzania 3.9% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$132 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$3.026 billion (2003