ure and forestry 43%, industry and
construction 22%, other 35% (1992)

Unemployment rate: 0.4% includes only officially registered
unemployed; large numbers of underemployed workers (December 1995)

Budget:
revenues: $NA
expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

Industries: textiles, food processing, machine building,
metallurgy, natural gas

Industrial production growth rate: 0% (1995 est.)

Electricity:
capacity: 11,690,000 kW
production: 47.5 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 2,130 kWh (1994)

Agriculture: cotton, vegetables, fruits, grain; livestock

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

Exports: $3.1 billion (1995)
commodities: cotton, gold, natural gas, mineral fertilizers, ferrous
metals, textiles, food products
partners: Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, US

Imports: $2.9 billion (1995)
commodities: grain, machinery and parts, consumer durables, other
foods
partners: principally other FSU countries, Czech Republic

External debt: $1.285 billion (of which $510 million to Russia)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $71 million (1993)
note: commitments, $2,915 million ($135 million in disbursements)
(1992-95)

Currency: introduced provisional som-coupons 10 November 1993
which circulated parallel to the Russian rubles; became the sole
legal currency 31 January 1994; was replaced in July 1994 by the som
currency

Exchange rates: soms per US$1 - 35.8 (end December 1995), 25
(yearend 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 3,460 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines
broad gauge: 3,460 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Highways:
total: 78,400 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km (1990 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 250 km; petroleum products 40 km; natural gas
810 km (1992)

Ports: Termiz

Airports:
total: 261
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 6
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 14
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 8
with paved runways under 914 m: 5
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 2
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 7
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 216 (1994 est.)

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