e bulk of payments due under its
rescheduling agreements in 1993-94 will be coming due.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $323.5 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: -2% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $4,700 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 21%
industry: 37%
services: 42% (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 60% (1995 est.)

Labor force: 15.4 million
by occupation: agriculture 33%, manufacturing 21%
note: shortage of skilled labor (1988 est.)

Unemployment rate: over 30% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: petroleum, petrochemicals, textiles, cement and other
construction materials, food processing (particularly sugar refining
and vegetable oil production), metal fabricating, armaments

Industrial production growth rate: 4.3% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 19,080,000 kW
production: 50.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 745 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: wheat, rice, other grains, sugar beets, fruits, nuts,
cotton; dairy products, wool; caviar

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of opium poppy for the domestic
and international drug trade; produced 35-70 metric tons in 1993;
net opiate importer but also a key transshipment point for Southwest
Asian heroin to Europe

Exports: $16 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: petroleum 85%, carpets, fruits, nuts, hides, iron, steel
partners: Japan, Italy, France, Netherlands, Belgium/Luxembourg,
Spain, and Germany

Imports: $13 billion (c.i.f., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery, military supplies, metal works, foodstuffs,
pharmaceuticals, technical services, refined oil products
partners: Germany, Japan, Italy, UK, UAE

External debt: $30 billion (1995 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $40 million (1993)

Currency: 10 Iranian rials (IR) = 1 toman; note - domestic figures
are generally referred to in terms of the toman

Exchange rates: Iranian rials (IR) per US$1 - 1,750 (January
1996), 1,747.93 (1995), 1,748.75 (1994), 1,267.77 (1993), 65.55
(1992), 67.51 (1991); black market rate: 4,000 rials per US$1
(December 1995); note - as of May 1995, the "official rate" of 1,750
rials per US$1 is used for imports of essential goods and services
and for oil exports, wheras the "official export rate" of 3,000
rials per US$1 is used for non-oil exports and imports not covered
by the official r