ervices: 45% (1994 est.)
Inflation rate - consumer price index: 14.7% (1995)
Labor force:
total: 160,355 (1986 est.)
by occupation: private sector about 65%, public sector 35%
Unemployment rate: 15% (1992 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $397 million
expenditures: $413 million, including capital expenditures of $78
million (1995/96)
Industries: mining (coal and asbestos), wood pulp, sugar, soft drink
concentrates
Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (1993 est.)
Electricity - capacity: 50,000 kW (1993)
Electricity - production: 84 million kWh (1993)
note: imports 90% of its electricity from South Africa
Electricity - consumption per capita: 612 kWh (1993)
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, cotton, maize, tobacco, rice,
citrus, pineapples, corn, sorghum, peanuts; cattle, goats, sheep
Exports:
total value : $700 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: soft drink concentrates, sugar, wood pulp, cotton yarn
partners : South Africa 58%, EU 20%, Mozambique 6% (1994)
Imports:
total value: $831 million (f.o.b., 1996)
commodities: motor vehicles, machinery, transport equipment, petroleum
products, foodstuffs, chemicals
partners : South Africa 88%, Japan, UK, US (FY94/95)
Debt - external: $175 million (1995 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
Currency: 1 lilangeni (E) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: emalangeni (E) per US$1 - 4.6410 (January 1997),
4.2706 (1996), 3.6266 (1995), 3.5490 (1994), 3.2636 (1993), 2.8497
(1992); note - the Swazi emalangeni are at par with the South African
rand
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Swaziland:Communications
Telephones: 30,364 (1993 est.)
Telephone system:
domestic : system consists of carrier-equipped, open-wire lines and
low-capacity, microwave radio relay
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 6, shortwave 0
Radios: 129,000 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 10
Televisions: 12,500 (1992 est.)
@Swaziland:Transportation
Railways:
total: 297 km; note - includes 71 km which are not in use
narrow gauge: 297 km 1.067-m gauge
Highways:
total: 2,885 km
paved: 814 km
unpaved: 2,071 km (1994 est.)
Ports and harbors: none
Airports: 17 (1996 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
under 914 m : 10 (1996 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 6 (1996 est.)
Military
Military branches: Umbutfo Swazilan
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