er, and deforestation and soil erosion have created
problems. The industrial sector in Rwanda is small, contributing only
16% to GDP. Manufacturing focuses mainly on the processing of
agricultural products. The Rwandan economy remains dependent on coffee
exports and foreign aid, with no relief in sight. Weak international
prices since 1986 have caused the economy to contract and per capita
GDP to decline. A structural adjustment program with the World Bank
began in October 1990. An outbreak of insurgency, also in October, has
dampened any prospects for economic improvement.

_#_GDP: $2.2 billion, per capita $300; real growth rate - 2.2% (1989
est.)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1% (1989)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $391 million; expenditures $491 million, including
capital expenditures of $225 million (1989 est.)

_#_Exports: $117 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--coffee 85%, tea, tin, cassiterite, wolframite,
pyrethrum;

partners--FRG, Belgium, Italy, Uganda, UK, France, US

_#_Imports: $293 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);

commodities--textiles, foodstuffs, machines and equipment, capital
goods, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material;

partners--US, Belgium, FRG, Kenya, Japan

_#_External debt: $689 million (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 1.2% (1988); accounts for
16% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 26,000 kW capacity; 112 million kWh produced,
15 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: mining of cassiterite (tin ore) and wolframite
(tungsten ore), tin, cement, agricultural processing, small-scale
beverage production, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles,
cigarettes

_#_Agriculture: accounts for almost 50% of GDP and about 90% of the
labor force; cash crops--coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made
from chrysanthemums); main food crops--bananas, beans, sorghum,
potatoes; stock raising; self-sufficiency declining; country imports
foodstuffs as farm production fails to keep up with a 3.8% annual growth
in population

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $128
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $45 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $58 million

_#_Currency: Rwandan franc (plural--francs); 1 Rwandan franc (RF) =
100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Rwandan francs (RF) per US