wer parity - $37.1 billion (1994 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 4.4% (1994 est.)

GDP per capita: $4,250 (1994 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 15%
industry: 30%
services: 55% (1995 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.5% (1995 est.)

Labor force: 2.917 million (1993 est.)
by occupation: services 55%, industry 23%, agriculture 22% (1995
est.)
note: shortage of skilled labor

Unemployment rate: 16.2% (1993 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $4.3 billion
expenditures: $5.5 billion, including capital expenditures to $NA
(1993 est.)

Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron
ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages

Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1989)

Electricity:
capacity: 1,410,000 kW
production: 5.4 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 595 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: olives, dates, oranges, almonds, grain, sugar beets,
grapes; poultry, beef, dairy products

Exports: $4.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates and
chemicals
partners: EU countries 75%, Middle East 10%, Algeria 2%, India 2%,
US 1%

Imports: $6.6 billion (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: industrial goods and equipment 57%, hydrocarbons 13%,
food 12%, consumer goods
partners: EU countries 70%, US 5%, Middle East 2%, Japan 2%,
Switzerland 1%, Algeria 1%

External debt: $7.7 billion (1993 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $221 million (1993)

Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 millimes

Exchange rates: Tunisian dinars (TD) per US$1 - 0.9635 (January
1996), 0.9458 (1995), 1.0116 (1994), 1.0037 (1993), 0.8844 (1992),
0.9246 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 2,260 km
standard gauge: 492 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 1,758 km 1.000-m gauge
dual gauge: 10 km 1.000-m and 1.435-m gauges (1993 est.)

Highways:
total: 29,183 km
paved: 17,510 km (including 52 km of expressways)
unpaved: 11,673 km (1989 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 797 km; petroleum products 86 km; natural gas
742 km

Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, Zarzis

Merchant marine:
total: 19 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 125,840 GRT/164,277 DWT
ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 4, chemical tanker 3, oil tanker 2,
roll-on/roll-off cargo 3, short-sea passenger 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 29
with paved runways over 3