$43.1 billion, per capita $2,460; real growth rate 10%
(1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.1% (1990 est.)

_#_Unemployment rate: 6% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $12.6 billion; expenditures $11.8 billion,
including capital expenditures of $3.2 billion (1991 est.)

_#_Exports: $28.9 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--natural rubber, palm oil, tin, timber, petroleum,
electronics, light manufactures;

partners--Singapore, US, Japan, EC

_#_Imports: $26.5 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--food, crude oil, consumer goods, intermediate goods,
capital equipment, chemicals;

partners--Japan, US, Singapore, FRG, UK

_#_External debt: $20.0 billion (1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 15.8% (1990 est.); accounts
for 27% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 5,600,000 kW capacity; 16,500 million kWh produced,
940 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries:

Peninsular Malaysia--rubber and oil palm processing and
manufacturing, light manufacturing industry, electronics, tin mining and
smelting, logging and processing timber;

Sabah--logging, petroleum production;

Sarawak--agriculture processing, petroleum production and refining,
logging

_#_Agriculture:

Peninsular Malaysia--natural rubber, palm oil, rice;

Sabah--mainly subsistence, but also rubber, timber, coconut,
rice;

Sarawak--rubber, timber, pepper; there is a deficit
of rice in all areas; fish catch of 608,000 metric tons in 1987

_#_Illicit drugs: transit point for Golden Triangle heroin
going to the US, Western Europe, and the Third World

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-84), $170
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $4.5 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $42 million

_#_Currency: ringgit (plural--ringgits); 1 ringgit (M$) = 100 sen

_#_Exchange rates: ringgits (M$) per US$1--2.7151 (January 1991),
1.7048 (1990), 2.7088 (1989), 2.6188 (1988), 2.5196 (1987), 2.5814
(1986), 2.4830 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

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_#_Railroads:

Peninsular Malaysia--1,665 km 1.04-meter gauge; 13 km double
track, government owned;

Sabah--136 km 1.000-meter gauge

_#_Highways:

Peninsular Malaysia--23,600 km (19,352 km hard surfaced, mostly
bituminous-surface treatment, and 4,248 km unpaved);

Sabah--3,782 km;

Sarawak--1,644 km

_#_Inland waterways:

Peninsular Malaysia--3,209 km;

Sabah--1,56