ervices: 41% (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5% (1995 est.)

Labor force: 6 million-7 million
by occupation: government 40%, industry, construction, and oil 25%,
services 30%, agriculture 5%

Unemployment rate: 6.5% (1992 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $35.1 billion
expenditures: $40 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1996 est.)

Industries: crude oil production, petroleum refining, basic
petrochemicals, cement, two small steel-rolling mills, construction,
fertilizer, plastics

Industrial production growth rate: 17% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 17,550,000 kW
production: 46 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,430 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: wheat, barley, tomatoes, melons, dates, citrus;
mutton, chickens, eggs, milk

Illicit drugs: death penalty for traffickers; increasing
consumption of heroin and cocaine

Exports: $41.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: petroleum and petroleum products 90%
partners: US 17%, Japan 17%, South Korea 8%, Singapore 7%, France 5%
(1994)

Imports: $21.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, motor
vehicles, textiles
partners: US 21%, Japan 12%, UK 8%, Germany 8%, Italy 5% (1994)

External debt: $18.9 billion (December 1989 est., includes
short-term trade credits)

Economic aid:
donor: pledged $100 million in 1993 to fund reconstruction of Lebanon

Currency: 1 Saudi riyal (SR) = 100 halalah

Exchange rates: Saudi riyals (SR) per US$1 - 3.7450 (fixed rate
since late 1986)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 1,390 km
standard gauge: 1,390 km 1.435-m gauge (448 km double track) (1992)

Highways:
total: 151,532 km
paved: 60,613 km
unpaved: 90,919 km (1992 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 6,400 km; petroleum products 150 km; natural
gas 2,200 km (includes natural gas liquids 1,600 km)

Ports: Ad Dammam, Al Jubayl, Duba, Jiddah, Jizan, Rabigh, Ra's al
Khafji, Al Mishab, Ras Tanura, Yanbu' al Bahr, Yanbu' al Sinaiyah

Merchant marine:
total: 76 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 944,946 GRT/1,322,167
DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 13, chemical tanker 5, container 3,
liquefied gas tanker 1, livestock carrier 4, oil tanker 22,
passenger 1, refrigerated cargo 4, roll-on/roll-off cargo 13,
short-sea passenger 9 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 175
with paved runway