; real growth rate 0.8%
(1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.3% (1990)

_#_Unemployment rate: 5.7% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $385.0 billion; expenditures $385.5 billion,
including capital expenditures of $35.0 billion (FY91 est.)

_#_Exports: $188.9 billion (f.o.b., 1990);

commodities--manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, chemicals,
semifinished goods, transport equipment;

partners--EC 50.7% (FRG 11.9%, France 10.2%, Netherlands 7.0%),
US 13.1%

_#_Imports: $222 billion (c.i.f., 1990);

commodities--manufactured goods, machinery, semifinished goods,
foodstuffs, consumer goods;

partners--EC 52.6% (FRG 16.6%, France 8.9%, Netherlands 7.9%),
US 10.8%

_#_External debt: $10.5 billion (1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 0% (1990)

_#_Electricity: 98,000,000 kW capacity; 316,500 million kWh produced,
5,520 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: machinery and transportation equipment, metals, food
processing, paper and paper products, textiles, chemicals, clothing,
other consumer goods, motor vehicles, aircraft, shipbuilding, petroleum,
coal

_#_Agriculture: accounts for only 1.5% of GNP and 1% of labor force;
highly mechanized and efficient farms; wide variety of crops and
livestock products produced; about 60% self-sufficient in food and
feed needs; fish catch of 665,000 metric tons (1987)

_#_Economic aid: donor--ODA and OOF commitments (1970-89), $21.0
billion

_#_Currency: British pound or pound sterling (plural--pounds);
1 British pound (5) = 100 pence

_#_Exchange rates: British pounds (5) per US$1--0.5171 (January
1991), 0.5603 (1990), 0.6099 (1989), 0.5614 (1988), 0.6102 (1987),
0.6817 (1986), 0.7714 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: Great Britain--16,629 km total; British Railways (BR)
operates 16,629 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (4,205 km electrified
and 12,591 km double or multiple track); several additional small
standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines are privately owned and operated;
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) operates 332 km 1.600-meter gauge,
190 km double track

_#_Highways: UK, 362,982 km total; Great Britain, 339,483 km paved
(including 2,573 km limited-access divided highway); Northern Ireland,
23,499 km (22,907 paved, 592 km gravel)

_#_Inland waterways: 2,291 total; British Waterways Board, 606 km;
Port Authorities, 706 km; other, 979 km

_#_Pipelines: 933 km crude oil