nomy.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $70.1 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 3.3% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $24,000 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 2%
industry: 55%
services: 43% (1994 est.)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.6% (1994 est.)

Labor force: 794,400 (1993 est.)
by occupation: industry and commerce 56%, services 38%, agriculture
6% (1990 est.)
note: 80% of labor force is foreign (est.)

Unemployment rate: NEGL% (1988)

Budget:
revenues: $4.6 billion
expenditures: $4.9 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(1995 est.)

Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction
materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling

Industrial production growth rate: -1.1% (1994 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 4,760,000 kW
production: 16.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 5,796 kWh (1993)

Agriculture: dates, vegetables, watermelons; poultry, eggs, dairy
products; fish

Illicit drugs: growing role as heroin transshipment and
money-laundering center

Exports: $25.3 billion (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: crude oil 66%, natural gas, reexports, dried fish, dates
partners: Japan 45%, India 6%, Oman 6%, South Korea 5%, Iran 5%
(1994)

Imports: $21.7 billion (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment,
food
partners: Japan 11%, UK 8%, Germany 8%, US 8%, Italy 7% (1994)

External debt: $11.6 billion (1994 est.)

Economic aid: $NA

Currency: 1 Emirian dirham (Dh) = 100 fils

Exchange rates: Emirian dirhams (Dh) per US$1 - 3.6710 (fixed rate)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 3,000 km
paved: 3,000 km
unpaved: 0 km (1993 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 830 km; natural gas, including natural gas
liquids, 870 km

Ports: 'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Das Island, Khawr Fakkan, Mina' Jabal
'Ali, Mina' Khalid, Mina' Rashid, Mina' Saqr, Mina' Zayid, Umm al
Qaywayn

Merchant marine:
total: 57 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,068,980 GRT/1,876,504
DWT
ships by type: bulk 2, cargo 17, chemical tanker 2, container 7,
liquefied gas tanker 1, livestock carrier 1, oil tanker 22,
refrigerated cargo 2, roll-on/roll-off cargo 3 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 36
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 9
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 3
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2