es $2.2 billion,
including capital expenditures of $590 million (1988 est.);
South--revenues and grants $435 million; expenditures $1.0 billion,
including capital expenditure of $460 million (1988 est.)
_#_Exports:
North--$606 million (f.o.b., 1989);
commodities--crude oil, cotton, coffee, hides, vegetables;
partners--FRG 29%, US 26%, Netherlands 12%;
South--$113.8 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);
commodities--cotton, hides, skins, dried and salted fish;
partners--Japan, North Yemen, Italy
_#_Imports:
North--$1.3 billion (f.o.b., 1988);
commodities--textiles and other manufactured consumer goods,
petroleum products, sugar, grain, flour, other foodstuffs, and cement;
partners--Saudi Arabia 12%, France 6%, US 5%, Australia 5%
(1985);
South--$553.9 million (f.o.b., 1989 est.);
commodities--grain, consumer goods, crude oil, machinery,
chemicals;
partners--USSR, UK, Ethiopia
_#_External debt: $5.75 billion (December 1989 est.)
_#_Industrial production:
North--growth rate 2% in manufacturing (1988);
South--growth rate NA% in manufacturing
_#_Electricity: 670,000 kW capacity; 1,100 million kWh produced,
110 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: crude oil production and petroleum refining;
small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food
processing; handicrafts; fishing; small aluminum products factory; cement
_#_Agriculture:
North--accounted for 26% of GDP and 70% of labor force; farm
products--grain, fruits, vegetables, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee,
cotton, dairy, poultry, meat, goat meat; not self-sufficient in grain;
South--accounted for 17% of GNP and 45% of labor force;
products--grain, qat (mildly narcotic shrub), coffee, fish, livestock;
fish and honey major exports; most food imported
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $389
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $1.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $3.2 billion;
Communist countries (1970-89), $2.4 billion
_#_Currency:
North Yemeni riyal (plural--riyals); 1 North Yemeni riyal
(YR) = 100 fils;
South Yemeni dinar (plural--dinars); 1 South Yemeni dinar
(YD) = 1,000 fils
_#_Exchange rates:
North Yemeni riyals (YR) per US$1--9.7600 (January 1990), 9.7600 (1989),
9.7717 (1988), 10.3417 (1987), 9.6392 (1986), 7.3633 (1985);
South Yemeni dinars (YD) per US$1--0.3454 (fixed rate)
_#_Fiscal
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