ompetition. A major long-run strength is Brazil's vast natural
resources.

_#_GDP: $388 billion, per capita $2,540; real growth rate - 4.6%
(1990)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1,795% (December 1990)

_#_Unemployment rate: 4.4% (1990)

_#_Budget: revenues $36.5 billion; expenditures $48.2 billion,
including capital expenditures of $4.6 billion (1988)

_#_Exports: $31.4 billion (1990);

commodities--iron ore, soybean bran, orange juice, footwear,
coffee

partners--EC 29%, US 23%, Latin America 10%, Japan 7% (1989)

_#_Imports: $20.4 billion (1990);

commodities--crude oil, capital goods, chemical products,
foodstuffs, coal;

partners--US 21%, Middle East and Africa 20%, EC 20%, Latin
America 18%, Japan 7% (1989)

_#_External debt: $122 billion (December 1990)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate - 8.9% (1990); accounts
for 35% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 55,773,000 kW capacity; 214,116 million kWh produced,
1,400 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: textiles and other consumer goods, shoes, chemicals,
cement, lumber, iron ore, steel, motor vehicles and auto parts,
metalworking, capital goods, tin

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 12% of GDP; world's largest producer and
exporter of coffee and orange juice concentrate and second-largest
exporter of soybeans; other products--rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, beef;
self-sufficient in food, except for wheat

_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis and coca, mostly for
domestic consumption; government has a modest eradication program
to control cannabis and coca cultivation

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $2.5
billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $9.9 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $284 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $1.3 billion

_#_Currency: cruzeiro (plural--cruzeiros); 1 cruzeiro (Cr$) = 100
centavos

_#_Exchange rates: cruzeiros (Cr$) per US$1--193.189 (January 1991),
68.300 (1990), 2.834 (1989), 0.26238 (1988), 0.03923 (1987), 0.01366
(1986), 0.00620 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 29,694 km total; 25,268 km 1.000-meter gauge, 4,339 km
1.600-meter gauge, 74 km mixed 1.600-1.000-meter gauge,
13 km 0.760-meter gauge; 2,308 km electrified

_#_Highways: 1,448,000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km gravel
or earth

_#_Inland waterways: 50,000 km navigable

_#_Pi