ssary,
although unpopular, economic reforms in order to obtain badly needed
foreign aid and improve Haiti's ability to attract foreign capital
if the Haitian economy is to gain momentum. Haiti will continue to
depend heavily on foreign aid in the medium term.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $6.5 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 4.5% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $1,000 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 34.8%
industry: 23%
services: 42.2% (1991 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.5% (FY 94/95)

Labor force: 2.3 million
by occupation: agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry 9%
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1982)

Unemployment rate: 60% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $242 million
expenditures: $299.4 million including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY94/95)

Industries: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement,
tourism, light assembly industries based on imported parts

Industrial production growth rate: 2.5% (1995 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 150,000 kW
production: 590 million kWh
consumption per capita: 86 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana en
route to the US and Europe

Exports: $161 million (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: light manufactures 65%, coffee 19%, other agriculture
8%, other 8%
partners: US 81%, Europe 12% (1993)

Imports: $537 million (f.o.b., 1995 est.)
commodities: machines and manufactures 34%, food and beverages 22%,
petroleum products 14%, chemicals 10%, fats and oils 9%
partners: US 51%, Europe 16%, Latin America 18% (1993)

External debt: $827 million (September 1995 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: gourdes (G) per US$1 - 16.783 (January 1996),
16.160 (1995), 12.947 (1994), 12.805 (1993), 10.953 (1992), 8.240
(1991)

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 40 km (single track; privately owned industrial line)-closed
in early 1990's
narrow gauge: 40 km 0.760-m gauge

Highways:
total: 3,978 km
paved: 944 km
unpaved: 3,034 km (1987 est.)

Waterways: negligible; less than 100 km navigable

Ports: Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Jeremie, Cayes, Miragoane,
Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix, Saint-Marc

Merchant