.4% (1989)

_#_Unemployment rate: 15.4% (1989)

_#_Budget: revenues $3.8 billion; expenditures $4.9 billion,
including capital expenditures of $970 million (1991 est.)

_#_Exports: $3.3 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates and
chemicals;

partners--EC 73%, Middle East 9%, US 1%, Turkey, USSR

_#_Imports: $4.8 billion (f.o.b., 1990 est.);

commodities--industrial goods and equipment 57%, hydrocarbons
13%, food 12%, consumer goods;

partners--EC 68%, US 7%, Canada, Japan, USSR, China, Saudi Arabia,
Algeria

_#_External debt: $7.4 billion (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989); accounts for
38% of GDP, including petroleum

_#_Electricity: 1,493,000 kW capacity; 4,210 million kWh produced,
530 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron
ore), textiles, footwear, food, beverages

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and one-third of labor force;
output subject to severe fluctuations because of frequent droughts;
export crops--olives, dates, oranges, almonds; other products--grain,
sugar beets, wine grapes, poultry, beef, dairy; not self-sufficient in
food; fish catch of 99,200 metric tons (1987)

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $730
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $4.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $684 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $410 million

_#_Currency: Tunisian dinar (plural--dinars);
1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 millimes

_#_Exchange rates: Tunisian dinars (TD) per US$1--0.8408 (January
1991), 0.8783 (1990), 0.9493 (1989), 0.8578 (1988), 0.8287 (1987), 0.7940
(1986), 0.8345 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 2,154 km total; 465 km 1.435-meter standard gauge;
1,689 km 1.000-meter gauge

_#_Highways: 17,700 km total; 9,100 km bituminous; 8,600 km improved
and unimproved earth

_#_Pipelines: 797 km crude oil; 86 km refined products; 742 km natural
gas

_#_Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, La Goulette, Zarzis

_#_Merchant marine: 21 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 160,172
GRT/218,970 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 4 cargo, 2
roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 6
chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 5 bulk

_#_Civil air: 13 major transport