sumer prices): 5.8% (1995)

Labor force: 32,152,600
by occupation: agriculture 57%, industry 17%, commerce 11%, services
(including government) 15% (1993 est.)

Unemployment rate: 2.7% (1995 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $28.4 billion
expenditures: $28.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $6.1
billion (FY94/95)

Industries: tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural
processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as
jewelry; electric appliances and components, integrated circuits,
furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and
third-largest tin producer

Industrial production growth rate: 13.3% (1995 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 12,810,000 kW
production: 56.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 909 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane,
coconuts, soybeans

Illicit drugs: a minor producer of opium, heroin, and marijuana;
major illicit transit point for heroin en route to the international
drug market from Burma and Laos; eradication efforts have reduced
the area of cannabis cultivation and shifted some production to
neighboring countries; opium poppy cultivation has been reduced by
eradication efforts; also a drug money laundering center; rapidly
growing role in amphetamine production for regional consumption;
increasing indigenous abuse of methamphetamine and heroin

Exports: $45.1 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactures 73%, agricultural products and fisheries
21%, raw materials 5%, fuels 1%
partners: US 21.0%, Japan 17.1%, Singapore 13.6%, Hong Kong 5.3%,
Germany 3.5%, UK 3.0%, Netherlands 2.8%, Malaysia 2.4%

Imports: $53.9 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: manufactures 80%, fuels 6.9%, raw materials 6.6%,
foodstuffs 4.3%
partners: Japan 30.4%, US 11.9%, Singapore 6.3%, Germany 5.8%,
Taiwan 5.1%, Malaysia 4.9%, South Korea 3.7%, China 2.6%

External debt: $53.7 billion (1994)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $624 million (1993)

Currency: 1 baht (B) = 100 satang

Exchange rates: baht (B) per US$1 - 25.300 (January 1996), 25.000
(1995 est.), 25.150 (1994), 25.319 (1993), 25.400 (1992), 25.517
(1991)

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 4,623 km
narrow gauge: 4,623 km 1.000-m gauge (99 km double track)

Highways:
total: 54,388 km
paved: 48,786 km (including 171 km of expres