agriculture 34.4%, industry 20.1%, other 45.5% (1985
figures)

Unemployment rate: 1.2% (includes only officially registered
unemployed; large numbers of underemployed workers) (December 1995)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
note: budget deficit for 1995 approximately 5% of GDP

Industries: food processing, agricultural machinery, foundry
equipment, refrigerators and freezers, washing machines, hosiery,
sugar, vegetable oil, shoes, textiles

Industrial production growth rate: -6% (1995 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 3,000,000 kW
production: 8.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,830 kWh (1994)

Agriculture: vegetables, fruits, wine, grain, sugar beets,
sunflower seed, tobacco; meat, milk

Illicit drugs: illicit cultivator of opium poppy and cannabis;
mostly for CIS consumption; transshipment point for illicit drugs to
Western Europe

Exports: $720 million (1995)
commodities: foodstuffs, wine, tobacco, textiles and footwear,
machinery, chemicals
partners: Russia, Kazakstan, Ukraine, Romania, Germany

Imports: $822 million (1995)
commodities: oil, gas, coal, steel, machinery, foodstuffs,
automobiles, and other consumer durables
partners: Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Romania, Germany

External debt: $550 million (of which $250 million to Russia)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $46 million (1993)
note: commitments, $1,335 million ($500 million disbursements),
1992-95

Currency: the leu (plural lei) was introduced in late 1993

Exchange rates: lei per US$1 - 4.5460 (January 1996), 4.4990
(1995), 4.2700 (1994), 3.6400 (1993), 0.4145 (1992), 0.0017 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 1,328 km
broad gauge: 1,328 km 1.520-m gauge (1992)

Highways:
total: 14,508 km
paved: 12,346 km
unpaved: 2,162 km (1992 est.)

Waterways: 424 km (1994)

Pipelines: natural gas 310 km (1992)

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 26
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2
with paved runways under 914 m: 3
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 8 (1994 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 577,000 (1991 est.)

Telephone system: te